News, News, News February 2011
Nicolas Fraissinet releases second album
Nicolas Fraissinet will present Les Métamorphoses, his second album, in Switzerland on 10 March (AkaMusic/dtb2music-AkaPublishing) and in France on 26 April (Universal). His telling lyrics and moving piano stylings have garnered the French-speaking Swiss native excellent reviews, the pinnacle thus far of a career that began with an unusual mixture of training in classic jazz and education in literary studies topped up with initial experience of the musician’s life in Paris. See also Courants d’Air (2008), les Pingouins Chanteurs, and Nicolas Fraissinet – 6 Titres (2005), self-produced.
http://www.nicolasfraissinet.com
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Hillbilly Moon Explosion: new album out soon
Switzerland’s very own rockabilly maniacs will be slaking popular thirst for more music soon with the release of their new album "Buy Beg or Steal".
Release partners:
France: Sony Music (distribution)
Germany: Cargo Records
Switzerland: Irascible (distribution)
UK/Benelux/Scandinavia: Jungle Records
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The Bianca Story sign with Motor Music in Germany
Swiss indie act The Bianca Story sign management deal with Motor Music (whose roster includes Westernhagen, Polarkreis 18 and others).
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Hell’s Kitchen sign contract with Dixiefrog, release new album in April
Freshly signed with French label Dixiefrog, Hell’s Kitchen will be releasing a new album (produced by Rodolphe Burger and Hell’s Kitchen) in France on 28 April, with Germany and the rest of Europe hard on its heels.
Distribution partners:
France: Harmonia Mundi
Benelux: Bertus
Switzerland: Irascible
UK: Discovery
Italy: IRD
Spain: Karonte
Sweden: Border
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Mama Rosin: reviews of UK tour
Just back from their UK tour, Geneva’s own zydeco madmen Mama Rosin have left behind some big smiles on the British Isles and scored a host of excellent reviews. “What’s not to like about this Swiss trio with an unquenchable love of the most obscure American roots music?”, writes Artdesk. Com, for example, while Keith Clark of the Bristol Evening Post says “you certainly don’t expect to hear a Swiss band playing this sort of music with such raw intensity and at a ferocious speed that would make most punk bands seem pedestrian.” Félicitations chers amis!
http://www.myspace.com/mamarosin
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My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter: début German tour
With positive reviews from German critics in their pockets (see links below), My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter embark on their first-ever German tour in February and March (sales H’Art Musik, promotion King.Ink, booking A.S.S.).
Appearance dates:
23 Feb 2011 Blue Shell, Cologne GERMANY
24 Feb 2011 Mondial Club, Hamburg GERMANY
26 Feb 2011 Schocken, Stuttgart GERMANY
28 Feb 2011 59 to 1, Munich GERMANY
04 Mar 2011 Longueur d’Ondes 2011, Paris FRANCE
19 Mar 2011 Magnet Club, Berlin GERMANY
Links to German reviews online:
http://www.schallgrenzen.de/
http://www.plattentests.de/
http://www.roteraupe.de/
http://www.koelner.de/
http://www.cdstarts.de/
http://www.alternativenation.de/
http://www.kulturnews.de/
http://www.gaesteliste.de/
http://www.musicheadquarter.de
http://aktiv-musik-marketing.de/
http://www.myheartbelongstoceciliawinter.ch
http://www.myheartbelongstoceciliawinter.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MHBTCW_presstext_english.pdf
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Slag In Cullet: album out by end of February, winter tour dates cancelled
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is, Slag In Cullet will release their new CD, Splinter, on 25 February with Revolver D.S. (distribution: Cargo) in Germany and Austria; the bad news is, they have had to cancel their German and Swiss dates in February and March due to injury. Get well soon – and congratulations!
http://www.slagincullet.com/Slag_In_Cullet_Official/News.html
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Navel return from German dates to great album reviews
Alternative rockers Navel are back from Germany to reap a crop of excellent notices for their second album. Intro dubs Neo Noir "impressive", Alternativenation predicts a brilliant future, given the quintet’s talent for bundling a wide range of inspirations, The Cosmic Penis (!) hails their ability to craft noise into tunes that stick in a listener’s head, and according to no less a source than Rolling Stone, the music on Navel’s new disc is “dark and melancholic…rock between throwback and repressed rage”…!
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The Beauty Of Gemina blow away crowds on Unheilig tour
The Unheilig tour that saw Swiss Goth band The Beauty Of Gemina performing warm-up has come to an end, and the verdict is: a total success, with the Swiss support blowing away hundreds of thousands at 13 different stadium shows!
Take a look at some of the pics, for instance from the show at AWD Hall in Hannover.
http://www.thebeautyofgemina.com
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Disco Doom’s new album: out soon in the US and Germany
Freshly returned from their French tour, Disco Doom have a new album out in stores in Switzerland (Defer Records/Irascible). US release is slated for 1 March (Static Cult Label/Stick Figure), and Germany will see the new disc on 4 March (Rakete Musik/Cargo). And above all: they are confirmed at SXSW!
