Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, 19 – 22 September 2018
It’s been a hot summer, and for anyone going to the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, it’ll be a hot autumn, too. As we all know, the Reeperbahn Festival is THE place that anyone who is anything on the cutting edge of European music will not want to miss.
And once again, Swiss Music Export will make its presence felt in Hamburg with a spectacular programme of showcases and networking events. All events will take place on Friday 21 September 2018 at the following location:
Sommersalon im Klubhaus St. Pauli, Spielbudenplatz 22, Hamburg
Discount prices for Swiss music business professionals are avaible, please click here.
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Swiss Contact Lounge
10:00 – 13:00
Looking for a quiet corner with a bit of style to meet your business partners at the Reeperbahn Festival? The Swiss Contact Lounge complete with coffee and croissants served by the Fondation SUISA and Swiss Music Export at the splendidly retro Sommersalon offers the perfect solution for you. Swiss professionals and representatives of Swiss acts are cordially invited to book their table via e-mail.
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Swiss Business Mixer
14:00 – 18:00
The Sommersalon also provides the picturesque background for the traditional Swiss Business Mixer, a sumptuous smorgasbord of Swiss live music, cheese raclette, white wine and plenty of interesting music people with interesting music and business ideas. The Swiss Business Mixer is jointly presented by Swiss Music Export, Fondation SUISA, RFV Basel, and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin.
Attendance is free to festival delegates. However, anyone wishing to attend needs to register before 18:00 on Tuesday, 18 September, via the Swiss Business Mixer Google Form
These are the acts looking forward to wow you with their showcase performances:
14:30 Marius Bear
15:45 Stevans
17:00 Blind Butcher
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Swiss Night im Sommersalon
19:00 – 01:00
Now in its third year, the “Swiss Night im Sommersalon” presented by Swiss Music Export in conjunction with RFV Basel and Stadt Zürich Kultur is now firmly on the way to becoming a proper tradition. The same entry conditions apply as for all other public concerts at the festival.
Once again, the event features no fewer than five acts:
19:15 Steiner & Madlaina
20:30 Black Sea Dahu
21:45 Anna Aaron
23:00 Evelinn Trouble
00:15 Alma Negra
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All Swiss acts in the Reeperbahn programme
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Alma Negra: Alma Negra are a collective living in Switzerland with very different backgrounds such as Cape Verde, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The musical results of this melange reflect influences as diverse as jazz in its more dancey styles, Fela Kuti, Theo Parrish, dancehall reggae, and plenty of oomph from Latin music.
Friday, 21.09. / 00:15h / Sommersalon (Swiss Night)
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Anna Aaron: This is how the French edition of Rolling Stone described Anna Aaron’s style: “She confronts the fragmenting world in a numeric age with organic rock. As instrumental as it is electronic, as tribal as it is hypnotic, it is always suffused with an elusive mystical beauty.” Who are we to disagree?
Anna Aaron is on the shortlist for the prestigious Anchor, the Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award for “the most promising emerging music talent.”
Thursday, 20.09. / 23:10 / Imperial Theater
Friday, 21.09. / 21:45 / Sommersalon (Swiss Night)
Tba / Reeperbus N-Joy (Interview)
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Black Sea Dahu: Janine Cathrein’s six-piece group Black Sea Dahu will be presenting songs from their new album, “In Case I Fall For You”. Hers is a gorgeously multi-layered voice, perfectly complemented by the band’s subtle and unusual arrangements.
Friday, 21.09. / 15:00 / Reeperbus N-Joy (Interview)
Friday, 21.09. / 20:30 / Sommersalon (Swiss Night)
Saturday, 22.09. / 11:30 / Freiheit und Roosen (Record Store Concert)
Saturday, 22.09. / 12:45 / Fritz Container Stage (Festival Village / Heiligengeistfeld)
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Blind Butcher: This guitar/drums/pedals duo is another of Reverend Beat-Man’s mad Voodoo Rhythm discoveries. Their typically idiosyncratic and yet totally appropriate Voodoo Rhythm PR blurb describes their musical style as “irritating post punk new wave kraut disco”. Great stuff!
Friday, 21.09. / 17:00 / Sommersalon (Swiss Business Mixer)
Saturday, 22.09. / 21:30 / MS Claudia (St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken Port 10)
Saturday, 22.09. / 23:30 / Molotow Karatekeller
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Evelinn Trouble: Re-inventing herself once again, Evelinn Trouble, as documented on her latest EP, Hope Music, has discovered a near-elegiac side to her muse. Fresh from winning the Swiss Music Prize, awarded by the Federal Office of culture, Trouble continues to follow only her own instinct, wherever that may take her, and whatever risks it entails.
Friday, 21.09. / 23:00 / Sommersalon (Swiss Night)
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Lord Kesseli & the Drums: The thrillingly odd and thus unmissable Lord Kesseli & the Drums have been added to the Cargo Records Showcase at Thomas Read. The band will be presenting material from their new album, released in November.
Wednesday, 19.09. / 22:10 / Thomas Read (Cargo-Showcase)
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Marius Bear: Bear by name, bear by voice. Mountain boy Marius honed his vocal style as a busker before moving to London to study at the BIMM pop school. His latest EP “Sanity” shows off his talent to great effect, combining a vocal style that isn’t a million miles away from Rag’n’Bone Man with a new, more electronic approach.
Friday, 21.09. / 14:30 / Sommersalon (Swiss Business Mixer)
Saturday, 22.09. / 17:25 / Reeperbus N-Joy (Interview)
Saturday 22.09. / TBC / Freiheit und Roosen (Record Store Concert)
Saturday, 22.09. / 21:00 / Spielbude
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Muthoni Drummer Queen – (Kenia/CH): The Nairobi-born singer and rapper Muthoni Drummer Queen, with the help of Swiss producers Jean “Hook” Geissbuhler and Greg “GR!” Escoffey, has melded together elements of reggae, hip-hop, and the sounds of East Africa, to great effect.
Saturday, 22.09.18 / 20:00 / Spielbude
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Steiner & Madlaina: The Glitterhouse-signed duo of singer and guitarist Nora Steiner and pianist/singer/guitarist Madlaina Pollina serve up a multi-facetted and subtle brand of folk rock made special by their intricate vocal interplay.
Friday, 21.09. / 19:15 / Sommersalon (Swiss Night)
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Stevans: After three albums, Stevans from Geneva have this slightly 80s retro, introvert-and-yet-dance-type groove well and truly sussed. Formed around multi-instrumentalist and singer Yvan Franel as a vehicle to perform his songs, the quartet has plenty of catchy choruses to reel in the unwary.
Friday, 21.09. / 15:45 / Sommersalon (Swiss Business Mixer)
Saturday, 22.09. / 22:00 / Nochtwache
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Veronica Fusaro: The young singer/songwriter Veronica Fusaro won the “Demo Tape of the Year” award at the M4Music conference/festival in spring 2016 for her song “Come to Naught” and hasn’t stopped gigging since. No wonder: she has a fine ear for a catchy chorus.
Wednesday, 19.09. / 20:15 / Zwick (Kontor New Media Live Lounge)
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Reception:
Radicalis und pøj pøj machen rum / Radicalis und pøj pøj make rum
Thursday, 20 September 2018, 16:00 – 18:00
Die Koralle (KorallBar), Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße 89, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
Based in Basel with an office in Hamburg, Radicalis provides a pick-and-choose range of services from promotion, booking and management to label, distribution and publishing. Their list of artists is rapidly growing. It includes many of the best Swiss acts as well as artists from all over the world including Zeal & Ardor, Evelinn Trouble, Soybomb, Anna Aaron, Debrah Scarlett, and Yalta Club. The Berlin agency pøj pøj also has a long history with Swiss artists such as Blind Butcher, Fai Baba, Kassette and Klaus Johann Grobe.
Expect a curated playlist from the MusicBox, sparkling conversations and small culinary treats, though. Free entrance for invited guests and delegates.
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Reeperbahn Festival
Reeperbahn Festival – Swiss Contact Lounge
Reeperbahn Festival – Swiss Business Mixer
Reeperbahn Festival – Swiss Night im Sommersalon
Sommersalon im Klubhaus St. Pauli
Radicalis und pøj pøj machen rum
Alma Negra
Anna Aaron
Black Sea Dahu
Blind Butcher
Evelinn Trouble
Lord Kesseli & the Drums
Marius Bear
Muthoni Drummer Queen
Steiner und Madlaina
Stevans
Veronica Fusaro
Fondation SUISA
RFV Basel
Stadt Zürich Kultur
Swiss Embassy in Berlin
Radicalis
pøj pøj
