The «Showcase Selection» is the list of Swiss artists who have currently been selected by international showcase festivals. At the moment this is the selection of Eurosonic, Transmusicales, Linecheck and MaMA.

Annie Taylor
The hi-octane four-piece from Zurich fronted by Gini Jungi announced their arrival a couple of years ago with a hugely enjoyable – and successful! – debut album packed with shimmering guitars, powerful vocals and very morish melodies. Their follow-up, due out any minute, is just as powerful. This band rocks!

 

Nathalie Froehlich
A member of the Lausanne-based music and arts collective Sacrée Déter, rapper Nathalie Froehlich doesn’t mess about. Her lyrics and delivery are direct, hard-hitting and – after a year packed with gigs – honed to live perfection.

 

crème solaire
Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire describe their wild and joyous racket as “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. Tonight, they will be premiering songs from a new album due out in spring.

 

Monte Mai
Driven by electronic beats and textures as well as guitars, Monte Mai serve up a heady mixture of dreamy vocals, danceable beats and psychedelically coloured whooshes, bleeps and cosmic nebulae. Formed in 2020 by Grenadian singer and synth-player Anais Schmidt and the Swiss duo of Fabio Pinto (guitar, vocals) and Fabio Besomi (bass, electronics), they describe their style as “a unique encounter between Swiss precision and Caribbean freschezza”.

Batbait
Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire describe their wild and joyous racket as “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. Tonight, they will be premiering songs from a new album due out in spring.

Caroline Alves
Featherlight hip-hop beats combined with rhythms rooted in the singer/songwriter’s native Brazil, and a hint of French indie chanson, makes for a beguiling new twist on a style that could be loosely described as up-tempo trip-hop.

Bound By Endogamy
Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire describe their wild and joyous racket as “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. Tonight, they will be premiering songs from a new album due out in spring.

LEILA
Newly signed to Herbert Grönemeyer’s Grönland label, singer/songwriter LEILA possesses the kind of voice that once heard, won’t be forgotten. Deep and androgynous, it sounds young and old, strong and vulnerable, provocative and intimate, all at the same time. And the same goes for her music.

Psycho Weazel

Psycho Weazel is a musical love story between two musicians from Neuchâtel. The Swiss duo radiates with productions whose elegance go hand in hand with a real sense of off-beat humour. Assuredly hedonistic, the club culture aficionados draw up sets whose finesse blends pop and new-wave influences. Their heady, universal music embraces you, body and soul as you end up lifting your hands to the sky in a moment of complete communion.

 

Yalla Miku
Consisting of musicians hailing from Eritrea, various parts of North Africa as well as Switzerland, Ex-Mama Rosin and Bongo Joe (label and shop) founder Cyril Yeterian’s latest project is an exuberant summation of everything that’s great about Geneva’s music scene just now.


Anna Erhard
For five years, Anna Erhard was a member of a Basel-based female trio, Serafyn, who released two albums, the second also on Radicalis. Their music stood out for their intricate vocal harmonies and their use of a cello. Feeling restless, Erhard relocated to Berlin for a personal and creative reboot. For her debut album, Erhard has developed a new sound based on quiet and laid-back semi-electronic musical backing and focusing on her own, laconic vocal delivery.

 

IKAN HYU
Elastic Plastic Space Power Gangster Future Pop – that’s how pop rebels IKAN HYU describe their musical style. Founded in 2016, the reputation of the explosive duo from Winterthur/Zurich is making waves – before they released their first EP “ZEBRA” in October 2018, IKAN HYU already played more than 50 concerts all over Switzerland, among others as support act for the British rock band Royal Blood. As part of Lift up (Noisey Switzerland), IKAN HYU was listed as one of ten bands that will own the year 2018. With ZEBRA, the IKANs were chosen as SRF Best Talent of the month of November.

 

MILYMA
Experimental R&B/Pop singer, pianist and producer MILYMA aka Milena Mayordomo, found her way to music composition through dance. Having played piano for half her life, she gradually started incorporating synthesizers, loopers and other electronic equipment. The result is a beautiful weave of organic sounds like her voice and piano juxtaposed with glitched out effects and synthesizers that range from warm textures to heavily distorted basslines.

 

heith
Much-travelled artist and musician heith aka Daniele Guerrini has been a pioneering figure in the experimental electronica world for a decade. Interested as much in cosmic atmospherics as in variations in noise and explorations of the analogue/electronic interface, he has frequently been involved in visual arts projects and spent time studying Gamelan composition in Bandung, West Java.

 

PRICE
Equally interested in electronic experiment and human voice, PRICE aka Matthias Ringgenberg, is a multidisciplinary artist working with performance, music,

video and installation. His debut album “Sequences (True Sentiments)” (2021) plays around with notions of pop and abstraction, whilst “Actual Feelings”, released in November 2022, consists of seven ten-minute pieces of more or less modulated voices interpreting the phrase “actual feelings”.

 

Delia Meshlir
Delia Meshlir is a Swiss musician from Lausanne. Singer songwriter, Delia plays the piano, the guitar as well as the saxophone. She has been writing her own songs since the age of 10. In 2019 she released her first EP „Almost Spring“ under her name. Her first album „Calling the Unknown“ came out in March 2022, which lead to praise in US and european press alike, as well as slots in prestigious festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival.

 

Silance
Silance is the messenger of a new generation, strong, uninhibited and open to the world. To convey this message, which, as she says in her song „Nouveau genre“, aims to reverse the trend, the singer from Lausanne does not hesitate to borrow from the witches who were once burned for being too free. „New gender“ means new identity, that of a lesbian and androgynous woman who, in this LGBTQIA+ anthem, wants to defend all those who are left behind, those who are still subjected to the daily taunts of a brainless minority.