Gabriel Lauber

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He was originally born in Zermatt province of Valais, Switzerland. At an early age, he was introduced to free jazz by his father, architect Peter Lauber, listening to improvisations by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Gato Barbieri and Albert Ayler among others. During his elementary school years he studied piano for a few years. It was in 1989 when he began playing the drums with his first teacher, Reinhard Fürbringer until 1994.

From 1993 to 1997, he studied at Musikhochschule Luzern, Abteilung Jazz (Lucern’s Jazz School) with Fabian Kuratli. He took classes with Christy Doran and Peter Kowald. Later, he moved to Zürich to study with Pierre Favre from 1997 to 1999 who was his latter teacher. In the year 2000, he travelled around different cities and towns in Mexico. A while later, he went back to Zürich, time in which he decided to leave Europe behind and settle down in the outskirts of Tepoztlán making Mexico his place of residence since 2001.

SuckySucky BoomBoom, is the first ensemble he formed in the year 2003, with the German musician-programmer, Pit Noack, Japanese bassist Kei Onishi, and the Mexican vocalist Johnny from the gore-grind ensemble C.A.R.N.E. Julio Clavijo (Mandorla), joined SuckySucky BoomBoom, when Pit Noack went back to Germany. The ensemble performed twice in the Masacre Fest in Mexico City and at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) - Xochimilco.

In December 2003, Germán Bringas and Gabriel Lauber met and started working together. By 2004, they organized an ensemble with Julio Clavijo: Zero Point. For the following year, the trio performed at Café Jazzorca, Hexen Café, Festival de Jazz de Tlalpan, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Museo Anahuacalli, Multiforo Alicia, among others. Besides recording two independent label productions, edited by: Dimensional Recordings, Lauber’s label. In fall 2005, Julio Clavijo decides to get involved in other projects. It was then when Itzam Cano contrabass player is invited to collaborate with Zero Point. It was also in this year that Gabriel Lauber creates Dimensional Recordings and Dimensional Productions. Then he met and worked with Remi Álvarez in some ensambles. 2006 was decisive for the way Zero Point would take, because in September, they recorded what would become their first digital album (DL-CD Download Only Release) at Ayler Records, Swedish company specialized in free jazz, besides participating in the Japanese New Music Festival (Tatsuya Yoshida, Kawabata Makoto and Tsuyama Atsushi), organized by Kei Onishi, the Japanese Embassy in Mexico, Jazzorca Records and Dimensional Productions. Also in 2006, together with Remi Álvarez and Itzam Cano, they formed Antimateria. This same year, another ensemble is integrated, Onslaught.

Currently, he is part of Antimateria, Onslaught, Zero Point ensembles and makes a duet with Remi Álvarez, Germán Bringas, Andrés Motta or Darrell Zimmerman. He has performed live with musicians such as Stefan González (son of Dennis González Texan trumpet player), Uros Nedeljkovic, Hermann Bühler, Scott Forrey, Marcos Miranda, Martin High De Prime, Mauricio Sotelo, Ángelo Moroni, Juan Pablo Villa, Hernan Hecht, Aarón Cruz, Carlos Alegre, among others.