The «Showcase Selection» is the list of Swiss artists who have currently been selected by international showcase festivals. At the moment this is the selection of c/o pop, Eurosonic, Transmusicales and Linecheck.
Bound By Endogamy
Prominent figures in Geneva’s still ultra-active squat, punk and DIY scene as well as the Bongo Joe crew, Shlomo Balexert and Kleio Thomaïdes will be presenting material from their eponymous album, a high-octane and playful mixture of synth-punk, rave and fun.
Fulmine
Fulmine is a mixture of over-excited and burning sounds, with flaws and wanderings of a smiling mess, a release of liquid molecules and darker hopes, of myths and contradictions staged in a trashy way. Lightning is the new project of Rebecca Solari, a promise with Italian-disco drone slam rap noise flavors like a lightning bolt landed a in a thick swamp.
Sirens Of Lesbos
Having moved a world away from their early tongue-in-cheek hit “Long Days, Hot Nights”, Denise Häberli, the Serag sisters, Jasmina and Nabyla, and producers Melvyn Buss and Arci Friede, have combined their impossibly wide-ranging palette of influences to create a joyful melange of Nu Soul, Fleetwood Mac, Lee Perry and Hercules & Love Affair.
Soft Loft
Formed to perform the velvety songs of singer/songwriter Jorina Stamm, Soft Loft aim to provide a “safe space” in music. And they will bring along a bundle of seriously catchy melodies, too.
Contact:
Management | GRYK | Nico | nico@grundiynkommen.com
EU–Booking | GRYK | Claudio | claudio@grundiynkommen.com
Artist is looking for:
– Festivals, Touring Partner Germany+
– Booking Agency UK
LEILA
Signed to Herbert Grönemeyer’s boutique label Grönland and booking agency All Artists, Leila (ex-Jeans for Jesus) possesses the kind of voice that once heard, is not forgotten. Deep and androgynous, it sounds young and old, strong and vulnerable, provocative and intimate, all at the same time.
Contact:
Management | Rebel Mind | Andrej | andrej@rebel-mind.ch
Artist is looking for:
– More international reach and show opportunities
Benjamin Amaru
The Zurich-based singer/songwriter combines a warmly flexible voice and a dreamy, electronica-based backing with a hint of R&B and a knack for super catchy melodies. Newly signed to Warner Music International, he will preview tracks from his hotly anticipated debut album due out in July.
Contact:
Booking Agent | Gadget | Olivier Joye | olivier.joye@gadget.ch
Artist is looking for:
– Festivalbookings
– Promoters outside GSA
mischgewebe
The duo of multi-instrumentalist and singer Melanie Danuser and guitarist/electronic wizard Bill Bühler serve up a languid blend of pop, pulsating acid house and spooky ambient.
Contact:
Management | GRYK | Nico | nico@grundiynkommen.com
Booking | qonzertbuero | Quentin | quentin@qonzertbuero.ch
Artist is looking for:
– Booking Agency Germany+
– Label
Nomuel
Clearly a boy band in the classic sense of a bunch of friends falling into a band together, the quintet from Basel seems to have access to an inexhaustible source of more-ish pop tunes, some of which they sing in French, some in English.
Contact:
Mgmt & Booking RoW: Emerged Agency | Dominic Oehen | dominic.oehen@emerged-agency.com
Booking GER: All Artists | Patrick Csonka | patrick.csonka@allartists.agency
Label: Irrsinn Tonträger | Paris Zinner | paris@irrsinnig.com
Artist is looking for:
– Publishing
Annie Taylor
The hi-octane four-piece from Zurich fronted by Gini Jungi announced their arrival a couple of years ago with a hugely enjoyable – and successful! – debut album packed with shimmering guitars, powerful vocals and very morish melodies. Their follow-up, due out any minute, is just as powerful. This band rocks!
Nathalie Froehlich
A member of the Lausanne-based music and arts collective Sacrée Déter, rapper Nathalie Froehlich doesn’t mess about. Her lyrics and delivery are direct, hard-hitting and – after a year packed with gigs – honed to live perfection.
crème solaire
Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire describe their wild and joyous racket as “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. Tonight, they will be premiering songs from a new album due out in spring.
Monte Mai
Driven by electronic beats and textures as well as guitars, Monte Mai serve up a heady mixture of dreamy vocals, danceable beats and psychedelically coloured whooshes, bleeps and cosmic nebulae. Formed in 2020 by Grenadian singer and synth-player Anais Schmidt and the Swiss duo of Fabio Pinto (guitar, vocals) and Fabio Besomi (bass, electronics), they describe their style as “a unique encounter between Swiss precision and Caribbean freschezza”.
Batbait
Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire describe their wild and joyous racket as “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. Tonight, they will be premiering songs from a new album due out in spring.
Caroline Alves
Featherlight hip-hop beats combined with rhythms rooted in the singer/songwriter’s native Brazil, and a hint of French indie chanson, makes for a beguiling new twist on a style that could be loosely described as up-tempo trip-hop.
Psycho Weazel
Psycho Weazel is a musical love story between two musicians from Neuchâtel. The Swiss duo radiates with productions whose elegance go hand in hand with a real sense of off-beat humour. Assuredly hedonistic, the club culture aficionados draw up sets whose finesse blends pop and new-wave influences. Their heady, universal music embraces you, body and soul as you end up lifting your hands to the sky in a moment of complete communion.
Yalla Miku 
Consisting of musicians hailing from Eritrea, various parts of North Africa as well as Switzerland, Ex-Mama Rosin and Bongo Joe (label and shop) founder Cyril Yeterian’s latest project is an exuberant summation of everything that’s great about Geneva’s music scene just now.
Anna Erhard
For five years, Anna Erhard was a member of a Basel-based female trio, Serafyn, who released two albums, the second also on Radicalis. Their music stood out for their intricate vocal harmonies and their use of a cello. Feeling restless, Erhard relocated to Berlin for a personal and creative reboot. For her debut album, Erhard has developed a new sound based on quiet and laid-back semi-electronic musical backing and focusing on her own, laconic vocal delivery.
IKAN HYU
Elastic Plastic Space Power Gangster Future Pop – that’s how pop rebels IKAN HYU describe their musical style. Founded in 2016, the reputation of the explosive duo from Winterthur/Zurich is making waves – before they released their first EP “ZEBRA” in October 2018, IKAN HYU already played more than 50 concerts all over Switzerland, among others as support act for the British rock band Royal Blood. As part of Lift up (Noisey Switzerland), IKAN HYU was listed as one of ten bands that will own the year 2018. With ZEBRA, the IKANs were chosen as SRF Best Talent of the month of November.
