A Great Escape for all
Of course, it was pouring down with rain. Of course, the venues were packed to the rafters. Of course, everyone loved every minute of it. Another Great Escape Festival is behind us, and – certainly from the perspective of Swiss Music Export – it was the best ever. Switzerland was the featured country at this […]
Bad Bonn Kilbi 2 – 4 June 2017 Düdingen, Switzerland
It’s safe to say that nobody who’s ever been to Bad Bonn will ever forget this place. Just to get there is an adventure. Duex in the Bad Bonn office has received many a desperate call from a band surrounded by green fields, grazing cows and apple trees, convinced their GPS had led them astray. […]
Le Roi Angus at Europavox Festival 29 June – 2 July 2017 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Launched in 2006 and based in the heart of France, the Europavox Festival is dedicated to the promotion of European musical diversity. To this end, the festival organisers have set up partnerships in six other countries to coordinate a series of similar one- to four-day festivals. These are Estragon (Bologna, Italy), Loftas Fest (Vilnius, Lithuania), […]
Switzerland, featured country at The Great Escape! Brighton, 18 – 20 May 2017
For many years, Swiss Music Export has presented a showcase of Swiss artists at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton. This year, we are going one step farther. As a featured country, we are able to take with us no fewer than nine acts to this much-loved festival on England’s South coast. In addition, our […]
Mario Batkovic at Les Nuits Botanique 12 – 21 May 2017, Brussels
Les Nuits Botanique in the heart of Brussels is a boutique festival with arts exhibitions, arts and musical projects, and an extraordinarily adventurous live music programme. This year, the selection ranges from Yasmine Hamdan to Thee Oh Sees and from a Kele Okereke acoustic set to Fishbach – and Mario Batkovic. For many decades, the […]
Bitch Queens spreading L.O.V.E.
“Twelve songs…that just by hearing them make you raise your middle finger against the mediocrity in rock music”, said UK Metal Hammer about Bitch Queens’ last album. They might as well write the same thing about the Basel quartet’s latest opus, “L.O.V.E.”. Formed in 2008, the band are steeped in the resolutely non-PC and yet […]
Egopusher and Klischée at Remmi Demmi Festival Berlin 29 April 2017
Staged for the second time this year, the Remmi Demmi indoor festival is based on the concept of “one evening, one ticket, and six extraordinary international bands – all in the heart of Berlin”. Two of the six bands scheduled for the 2017 event are from Switzerland: Egopusher and Klischée. Having moved away from their […]
Printemps De Bourges and Les Inouïs de Bourges with Sandor 18 – 23 April 2017
First staged in 1977, the Printemps de Bourges Crédit Mutuel festival regularly attracts around 200’000 music fans and 600 business professionals from all over the world to this pretty cathedral city in the French heartland. Apart from the conventional programme of live music, Printemps De Bourges also incorporates Les Inouïs de Bourges, a kind of festival-within-a-festival […]
Swiss Music Export at Electron Festival 13 – 16 April 2017
Now in its fourteenth year, the Electron festival in Geneva has been firmly established at the centre of the European electronica world as a place to discover talented new artists and DJs, and to observe new trends and tendencies. Having proved highly popular in the past, Swiss Music Export is once again organising two “matchmaking” […]
New Odd Beholder EP
After the success of their debut EP “Lighting”, dream pop duo Odd Beholder release their follow-up “Atlas”, another EP, on 13 April 2017. The group is signed to Sinnbus for the world and Mouthwatering Records for Switzerland. Odd Beholder are James Varghese and Daniela Weinmann. Theirs is a gauze-like wash of minimalist and atmospheric electronic […]
