Los Orioles Feeling Enthusiastically Erotic
21 May 2021 saw the release of Los Orioles’ new album, “Erotico Enthousiaste”, via Creaked Records. Twanging guitars, massed percussion, a hefty dose French yeah-yeah pop, plus a dash of Cramps and 1950s exotica – and that’s just for starters. Since their last release, the wacky psychedelically inclined seven-piece from Biel have also discovered the […]
Stay Up to Date on Swiss music and Enjoy Yourself!
Last month we provided you with a list of links to Swiss activities, campaigns and projects launched this extraordinary spring to keep you entertained and informed during the lockdown (and after!). Here’s an update – this time with links to Swiss labels, agencies, collectives, promoters – all this to make it easier for you not […]
Los Orioles Vamp Up les Vacances
Los Orioles, the wacky exotica psychedelicists, have a new record deal to celebrate, and they do this with a fiery new 4-track EP. A party band par excellence, Los Orioles from the bilingual city of Biel are a seven-piece marinated in all things Caribbean and tropical in general. Mixing their reggae with heaps of influences […]
Ella Soto drops new EP
Lausanne-based 23 year old producer Ella Soto combines influences as diverse as Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Sade and Mariah Carey with an adventurous attitude to electronica and hip-hop beats. “Sisterhood” is her third EP. As indicated by the title, “Sisterhood” is a sort of concept mini-album about female strength, power and conviction. The EP contains six […]
Verveine releases new EP „Antony“
Introduced as one of fifteen “unmissable acts” at the Transmusicales de Rennes by Les Inrocks, the French newspaper Libération was fulsome in its praise last December of Verveine’s performance at the festival. Devoting a major feature to the 25 year old artist from Vevey, “The Swiss singer fulfilled and even surpassed all the promises made […]
Julien Aubert releases new EP at last
9 March sees the release on Creaked Records of Julien Aubert’s long awaited follow-up to his two EPs “Paint Club” (2009) and “Still Life with Skulls” (2010). “Mechanic” boasts three new tracks and three remixes by Dollar Mambo, Isolated Lines and Gaspard de la Montagne. Growing up in the indie scene of Vevey in the […]
Larytta with worldwide album release
Formed in 2004 in Lausanne, the mysteriously-named Larytta play synth-pop with a hint of Phoenix, a dash of Kraftwerk, a few bleeps of Hot Chip and “Popcorn”, plus a hefty dose of their own secret mixture of spices from North Africa, the Middle East and dodgy 1960s film soundtracks. In order to make their live […]