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Arto Cola: A Playful Collision of Genres and Sonic Possibilities
With Arto Cola, Augustin von Arx and Léonard Persoz embrace musical freedom, creating a shape-shifting pop experience that refuses to be confined by genre. Drawing on more than a decade of shared musical adventures, the duo bring together their diverse backgrounds as musicians, producers and arrangers in a project that celebrates experimentation, collaboration and creative spontaneity.
Before forming Arto Cola, von Arx and Persoz had already established themselves as key figures on Switzerland’s French-speaking music scene, as founding members of distinctive acts such as Magic & Naked and Le Roi Angus. Having performed more than 400 shows together, including appearances at Paléo and the Montreux Jazz Festival, they have developed a strong musical chemistry and a distinctive sonic identity.
Conceived as the first chapter of a trilogy, the album takes that identity into exciting new territory. Each track finds its own musical language, atmosphere and collaborators, with contributions from artists including Mark Kelly, Tatum Rush, Shuttle, and Melissa Kassab. The result is an eclectic yet remarkably natural fusion of R&B, funk and soul influences with unexpected bursts of metal guitar, all held together by an unapologetic pop sensibility.
Playful, unpredictable and genuinely distinctive, Arto Cola is less an exercise in genre-blending than an invitation to explore the endless possibilities of contemporary pop. A project in constant evolution, it finds its strength precisely in its refusal to stand still.
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