Swiss Music Export @ c/o pop 2025
With its eclectic mix of cutting-edge live music, DJ sets and artist showcases, plus an innovative range of workshops and networking events, c/o pop has become a perfect fit for SME’s objectives. After last year’s hugely enjoyable and very successful trip to the cradle of carnival in the West of Germany, we are very much […]
Switzerland @ jazzahead! Trade Fair and Festival
Launched in 2006, the jazzahead! trade fair and festival has developed into one of the most important yearly get-togethers for the European jazz scene. Attracting well over 3000 business professionals from 66 countries in 2024, and featuring 38 showcase concerts, jazzahead! is a fantastic exchange forum for a branch of the music business that is […]
Giulia Dabalà Exploring Shades of Anger
Available now from Irascible is “Cruda”, Giulia Dabalà’s follow-up to her much-admired debut “Gold”. Recorded with two very different producers – Hook (Muthoni Drummer Queen, Murmures Barbares, etc.) and electronica specialist Ripperton –, “Cruda” (“raw” in Italian) explores the various shades of anger from the perspective of a woman. Women’s anger, she feels, is often […]
Monte Mai Inventing Tropicalpino
Entitled “Tropicalpino”, the new album from continent- if not universe-spanning Ticinesi trio Monte Mai is out now via Il Domani. Formed in 2020 by Grenadian singer and synth-player Anais Schmidt and the Italian-Swiss duo of Fabio Pinto (guitar, vocals) and Fabio Besomi (bass, electronics) used to describe their style as a “a unique encounter between […]
Milune Feeling Hearts Lust
Out now on Sony is 21year old Swiss-American singer Milune’s debut album, “Hearts Lust”. Following on from a sole EP, “rabbit holes”, which earned her an “Best Talent” award from national radio SRF3, “Hearts Lust” introduces a singer with a very clear vision of where she wants to be and what she wants to say. […]
Is Hilke Angry Enough?
Hilke is the second artist this month, alongside Giulia Dabalà, to explore female anger as a positive force. Her new album “Am I Angry Enough” is released via Red Brick Records. Inspired by her participation in a feminist strike march in Zurich, Hilke – in a previous life the double and synth bass player with […]
Supernova Taking it Supereasy
New band Supernova Easy have gone public with their debut album. Entitled “Supernova Easy”, it is out now via Red Brick Records. Somewhat of a supergroup, Supernova Easy consists of drummer and principal songwriter Nick Furrer, Cori Nora on bass, and guitarist Lidia Beck. All three also act as vocalists. In other lives, Furrer drums […]
Stahlberger Contemplating the Night
Hey, here’s the new one from Stahlberger! It’s called “Immer dur Nächt“ and available from Stahlberger/Irascible. A crystal-sharp observer of everyday life in Switzerland, multiple-award-winning poet/songwriter/comedian/cartoonist Manuel Stahlberger has managed to do the impossible: he has turned the dialect of his native St. Gallen, a small town in the Northeast of Switzerland, from the ugly […]
Sivilian Reliving his Growing Pains
Newly signed to Phonag Records, singer/songwriter/visual artist Sivilian celebrates a new perspective on life with the release of a five-track EP, “Growing Up Hurts”. Music has been an essential part of Adrian Graf’s life since he discovered Britney’s “Oops…I did it Again” in a local CD shop. Growing up in a small village in the […]
Philipp Fankhauser Back on the Blues Track
Returning from a serious health scare, Switzerland’s most popular blues artist, returns with his freshest collection yet. “Ain’t That Something”, released by Funk House Blues Productions, is his eighteenth album. Only Lady Gaga’s return to form prevented it from hitting the very top of the Swiss album charts. Recovering from a stem cell transplant with […]
