DJ Sax

DJ Sax's own legal notice settles a question its homepage never raises: this isn't an independent studio. "Ce site est édité par : DJ-EVENT By Findeisen," it states, giving a registered address at Route de Gouillon 14, c/o FIDU-loc Sàrl, in Saint-Gingolph, Valais, and routing the site's official web and mail contacts through dj-event.ch rather than djsax.ch. The footer confirms it from the other direction on every page: "© 2017 DJSAX.CH & DJ-EVENT," with DJ-EVENT hyperlinked straight to dj-event.ch. What doesn't show up anywhere, across every page read for this listing, is DJ-Mariages, the third site sometimes grouped with these two. Whatever tie that site has, DJ Sax's own pages never name it. The only sibling this brand claims for itself is DJ-Event.

What DJ-Event's live-music brand actually sells is a specific format: a DJ running a mixed set with a musician improvising over it in real time, rather than a straight DJ booking or a stand-alone band. The homepage calls it a "concept DJ et musiciens unique," and the nav breaks it out by instrument, one page each, for sax, guitar, violin, live drums, cello, percussion, and a singer, plus a solo pianist. Three of those pages put a name to the player. Pierre Hatat, on violin, is "un virtuose tant dans la musique actuelle qu'au niveau classique," equally comfortable in current pop and classical repertoire. Katya, on cello, gets a near-identical line, with one extra detail that matters for a wedding day specifically: her page says she can play the ceremony itself, not just the aperitif, alone or paired with the DJ. The singer is Jenny, credited as coming "from FUNKY FLAKES," a house band the site lists separately, her range pitched as "Pop/RNB, cool et jazzy ou même House et Electro." The guitar, drums and percussion pages describe a sound rather than naming a player: the guitar page promises "jazzy, loungy, groovy avec une pointe d'electro," the guitarist improvising on whatever the DJ is playing rather than working a set list, while percussion comes with "Djembés, Darbuka... et même une combinaison led pour la nuit," an LED-lit rig once the sun's down.

Past those eight paired formats, a separate musicians page lists six further acts booked through the same operator, one paragraph each and no dedicated page of their own: a jazz quintet, a singer called Azania billed as having appeared on The Voice France, a solo guitarist-singer called Niko Solo, the Funky Flakes band itself (Jenny plus a percussionist plus a DJ), a trio pairing DJ, guitar and sax, and a guitar-and-voice duo called Temptation Duo built on funk covers.

What actually gets booked, and what it costs

The pricing page is the clearest thing on the site, and the rarest thing in this whole category: a real price list instead of a request-a-quote form. Three tiers cover a private evening or a wedding built around a DJ and a saxophonist. A DJ alone, full sound and adapted lighting included, starts at CHF 1'450.- for a wedding (a separate, cheaper CHF 1'000.- line applies to a private party rather than a wedding). Adding the saxophonist for the whole event lifts that to CHF 1'850.- for a private evening or CHF 2'300.- for a wedding built around "vin d'honneur/soirée et++," with a doubled sound system if the event splits between an outdoor space and an indoor room, and lighting the page specifically calls out for the dance floor. A middle tier, the saxophonist covering only the aperitif rather than the whole day, runs CHF 1'550.- privately or CHF 2'000.- for a wedding. The pianist has a separate line entirely: CHF 600.- for a 2-hour aperitif-through-meal set if the venue already has an instrument on site, CHF 700.- if one has to be arranged. The violin pairing breaks the pattern outright: "Tarif : nous consulter," price on request, the one format on the page with no figure attached. The site calls all of it "purement indicatif," adjustable once it knows what a couple actually wants.

That's still more than most listings in this category ever publish, but it isn't spread evenly. Pricing exists for the plain DJ tier, the sax pairing (in three variants) and the piano; the violin gets an explicit "price on request" instead of a figure; and guitar, live drums, cello, percussion and the singer get nothing at all, not even a note pointing a couple toward a quote for that specific pairing. A couple wanting anything other than sax or piano ends up at the same general contact form as a site with no price page.

Who's actually booked them

The reference page names real venues and companies rather than a logo wall with no attribution behind it. On the hospitality side: Beau-Rivage and Le Richemond in Geneva, Beau-Rivage Palace and Lausanne Palace, the Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, Fairmont and President Wilson in Geneva, Mövenpick and Hôtel Prealpina in Chexbres, Domaine Imperial, and Les Trois Couronnes. The corporate side runs on a separate Geneva-region page rather than the reference page: IWC Watches, Procter & Gamble, Shiseido, La Banque Pictet, Lacoste, Globus, Manor, EFG Banque, Deutsche Banque, plus the État de Genève and the Ville de Lancy. One entry is flagged as recurring rather than a one-off, "des soirées régulières" for the Ville de Veyrier and Ville de Lancy. None of it carries a date or a figure, so it reads as a client history rather than a metric, but the names are specific enough for a couple to check for themselves.

Where this leaves a couple reading in English

Every page read for this listing is in French, no exceptions, and the sitemap lists no English URL and no page claims the booking, the musicians or the day itself can run in a second language. There's a direct line, "Tél. direct : +41 78 641 54 08," alongside the contact form, which at least means a real conversation is possible rather than only an email exchange, but which language that call happens in isn't stated anywhere. Reach is similarly undocumented: the site names Geneva and Lausanne as its core areas, with near-identical copy repeated on separate pages for each city, but its own reference list goes further than either, into Valais (White Pods Resort, Grand Hôtel Lavey-les-Bains) and into Vaud beyond the two main cities (Château de Bossey). No travel fee or maximum radius is published anywhere on the site.

That combination is the honest shape of this listing: a genuinely worked-out format, named musicians on three of eight pairings, real prices on the sax and piano pairings but nothing published for the other five, sitting next to a site that says nothing at all about language. A couple who reads French, or is happy to settle the rest by phone before booking, gets a lot more to work with here than a first look at the homepage suggests. A couple who needs the process to run in English from the first message should ask outright, because djsax.ch never answers that question either way, and nothing here should be read as though it does.