Swiss Music at the Reeperbahn Festival 18 – 21 September 2019
Heatwave – what heatwave? The Reeperbahn Festival will be hotter, and that’s guaranteed. Launched in 2006, the Reeperbahn has established itself in double quick time as the largest club festivals in Europe and also one of the most important music industry platforms in the world. The music programme with its mixture of fresh talent and established, though innovative, artists is full of surprises, and the conference itself forms a massive pool of industry insight and knowledge.
Once again, Swiss Music Export is partaking in the festivities with great enthusiasm and a fantastic – if we may say so ourselves – set of events that you will not want to miss.
Before we get to those, however, here’s another good reason to follow the call of SME. Any Swiss delegate booking their ticket through us will be able to do so at a special discount price. For more information please click here.
Friday, 20 September is the big Switzerland day at the Reeperbahn Festival with a whole raft of events it would be criminal to miss. Here goes…
*** Swiss Contact Lounge
Friday, 20 September – 10:00 – 13:00 – Sommersalon im Klubhaus St. Pauli, Spielbudenplatz 22, Hamburg
Coordinated by SME together with Fondation Suisa, the Contact Lounge brings together representatives from a wide range of Swiss music business entrepreneurs with their counterparts from the rest of Europe. The wonderfully retro Sommersalon offers a picturesque backdrop for the lively exchange of visions and concepts, complete with coffee and croissants.
Participation is by invitation only. Swiss professionals and representatives of Swiss acts are cordially invited to book their table via e-mail.
*** Swiss Business Mixer
Friday, 20 September – 14:00 – 17:30 – Sommersalon im Klubhaus St. Pauli, Spielbudenplatz 22, Hamburg
2019 is a special year for SME at Reeperbahn – it marks the tenth anniversary of our hugely popular Business Mixer. Once again, SME in collaboration with Fondation Suisa and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, are inviting you to a feast of music, food and wine. Served on proper porcelain, no less, our guests will be treated to round after round of cheese raclette, potatoes, cornichons and pearl onions, washed down with specially imported Swiss white wine.
Musical entertainment of the superior kind will be served up by Monumental Men, The Gardener & The Tree, and Dagobert. The latter two, especially, have already outgrown small clubs like the Sommersalon – it will be a rare treat to enjoy them in such an intimate environment.
Attendance is free to festival delegates. However, anyone wishing to attend needs to register before 18:00 on Tuesday, 17 September, via this form: https://forms.gle/5cM7jSBbxuSHK3oB9
The stage times of the acts are as follows:
14:30 – 15:00 Monumental Men
Two electronica producers (Biru and Melvyn Buss) have teamed up with the vocalist of a folk-pop band (Roman Bühlman) to create a slow but intensely burning blend of eerie songs with the odd hint of a house beats.
15:45 – 16:15 The Gardener & The Tree
Big choruses, big feelings – and one massive big voice, that, in a nutshell, is The Gardener & The Tree. Fans of Alabama Shakes, Kings of Leon and The Lumineers will be delighted.
17:00 – 17:30 Dagobert
Combining 1980s synth-pop with a song-writing style steeped in Bacharach, French chanson and a dollop of German Liedermacher, Dagobert manages to sing about love in his native, German tongue without the slightest smidgeon of saccharine.
Monumental Man, The Gardener & The Tree, and Dagobert are also part of the regular Reeperbahn Festival programme.
*** A Taste of Swiss Music
Friday, 20 September – 19:00-03:00 – Häkken im Klubhaus St. Pauli, Spielbudenplatz 22, Hamburg
For the first time this year, Swiss Music Export, in collaboration with FCMA and Stadt Zürich Kultur, under the banner of “A Taste of Swiss Music” is presenting a special event focusing on Swiss electronic music. In a brand new venue one floor up from the Sommersalon, six acts – they all happen to be female by merit and coincidence, not design – will be showcasing the wide range of wildly exciting electronic music produced in Switzerland at present.
19:30 – 20:10 Linda Vogel
Aided by drummer and composer, Vincent Glanzmann, Vogel, with her harp and her voice, creates a hazy and yet muscular music with lyrics influenced, she says, by Fernando Pessoa and John Donne.
20:40 – 21:20 Ikan Hyu
Anisa Djojoatmodjo and Hannah Bissegger, ex-members of Bonaparte and Allen Finch, serve up a beguiling and often pleasingly dirty broth of electronica, rap and soul, laced with a hefty dose of rock.
21:50 – 22:30 Ella Soto
Producer Ella Soto from Lausanne combines influences as diverse as Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Sade and Mariah Carey with an adventurous attitude to electronica and hip-hop beats.
23:00 – 23:40 Priya Ragu
Singer Priya Ragu cites Lauryn Hill, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Robin Thicke, Musiq Soulchild and the Bollywood composer A.R.Rahman as influences. Which sums up her own jazzily inflected soul style pretty well.
00:10 – 00:50 Camilla Sparksss
Sassy, ironic, sharp, in turns hard and tender, often noisy, always ridiculously catchy – that was the old Camilla Sparksss. For her new album “Brutal”, “volatile” and “atmospheric” can be added to the above list of groovy adjectives to describe her music.
01:20 – 03:00 La Colère
This year’s winner in the category “electronic” of the Demotape Clinic competition at m4music in Zurich creates breezily danceable and yet mysteriously hypnotic techno tracks with otherworldly, often spoken lyrics.
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Other live performances by Swiss acts:
AYU
Wednesday, 18 September – 22:50 – Sommersalon
Friday, 20 September – 19:00 – Spielbude
Saturday, 21 September – 13:00 – Spielbude
Warm-voiced singer Ayu creates fleet-footed, multi-layered synth pop with plenty of easy-on-the-ear hooks.
Benjamin Amaru
Friday, 20 September – 20:30 – Schulmuseum
Indie/Pop artist Benjamin Amaru combines several genres with electric and acoustic sounds to catchy songs.
Dagobert
Saturday, 21 September – 21:40 – Terrace Hill
Monumental Men
Saturday, 21 September – 19:50 – Prinzenbar
The Gardener & The Tree
Saturday, 21 September – 21:25 – Grosse Freiheit 36
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Swiss panelists at Reeperbahn Conference programme:
AYU – Panel “Steering Committee Music Machine”
Thursday, 19 September – 16:15 – Angies Nightclub
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Reeperbahn Festival
Reeperbahn Festival – Swiss Contact Lounge
Reeperbahn Festival – Swiss Business Mixer
Reeperbahn Festival – A Taste of Swiss Music
Reeperbahn Conference – “Steering Committee Music Machine” – Panel with AYU
Swiss Music at Reeperbahn Festival
AYU
Benjamin Amaru
Camilla Sparksss
Dagobert
Ella Soto
Ikan Hyu
La Colère
Linda Vogel
Monumental Men
Priya Ragu
The Gardener & The Tree
Fondation Suisa
Swiss Embassy in Berlin
FCMA
Stadt Zürich Kultur
