Gipsy Tonic
gypsy jazz hard bop band lausanne (ch)
The band
Since 2016, Gipsy Tonic has been bringing Lausanne’s stages to life with acoustic jazz drawing on Manouche and hard bop influences. Remaining true to the legacy of Django Reinhardt, the quartet infuses the music with its own unique flavour, blending festive energy with moments of stillness.
- Mixology -
new album released on
Sept. 26th, 2026!
We recorded our first album "Mixology" in our own studio “R-26” we built entirely ourselves in Pully, near Lausanne, in November 2025. Bastien Montal, our bass player, managed the recording and the mixing sessions.
The album features eight tracks completely rearranged by the band. Each track explores a distinct atmosphere. We offer a unique listening experience, resulting in a blend of influences and personalities where the energy of hard bop meets gypsy jazz.
Beyond the music, this album also captures the bond we’ve forged over the years. The crowdfunding on WeMakeIt was a success and we’ve released the physical and digital album on September 26, 2026. What a blast!
Mixing art and music
For this album Mixology, we collaborated with Tara Harris, a contemporary artist based in Birmingham, whose painting explores inner landscapes in an instinctive way.
For her Mixology series, Tara translated the fluidity of each track on the album into a series of eight original paintings.
This body of work grew out of a process of active listening, in which the rhythms, tonal shifts, and atmospheric layers of the tracks served as the primary catalyst.
The resulting paintings achieve an emotional resonance, capturing the energy and spirit of the music to create dreamlike, haunting landscapes.
Ten years on stage
Gipsy Tonic is an acoustic jazz quartet drawing on gypsy swing and hard bop, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Formed in 2016 around the music of Django Reinhardt, the band has moved through the eras of swing and bop to ultimately find its own voice and create atmospheres all its own.
While staying true to their love of Django's music and that of his peers, the band aims to honour tradition while weaving in the influence of the great hard bop musicians — ready to deliver a set of gypsy jazz hard bop with arrangements all their own.
Cristobal Salvador - Clarinet
Antony Doukhan - Lead Guitar
Bastien Montal - Electric Bass
Sacha Toufani - Rhythm Guitar
Upcoming concerts
Live from the studio
Pictures
