Swiss Music at jazzahead! 2014
Switzerland at jazzahead! Bremen, 2014: Don’t miss the Alpine Cocktail @ jazzahead! 2014 Friday 25 April 2014 at 16:00, hall CCB. ***** Concerts: «European Jazz Meeting» with the following Swiss artists: http://www.jazzahead.de/festival/european-jazz-meeting/ In the European Jazz Meeting on April 26th, 18 formations from all over Europe are given the chance to present their music. The […]
Balthasar Glättli is the new president of Swiss Music Export
Balthasar Glättli is the new president of Swiss Music Export (SME). He was elected to this position during the association’s annual general meeting on 21 March 2014. Glättli, a National Councillor from Zurich representing the Green Party, succeeds Evi Allemann, also a National Councillor, who was the president of SME for the last five years. […]
m4music Festival, Conference & Demotape Clinic 2014
The annual m4music festival/conference is Switzerland’s most important communication and discussion forum for national and international music business professionals. Taking place in Lausanne (27 March) and Zurich (28/29 March), it also offers an exceptionally adventurous and international program of live music which is regularly sold out weeks in advance. All panel discussions and keynote speeches […]
Swiss Music Export @ Voix de Fête
Swiss Music Export will once again be present at the „Voix de Fête“ festival, taking place for the 16th time from Tuesday 11th March 2014 to Sunday 16th March 2014 in Geneva. The festival plays host to artists predominantly from the French speaking areas of Europe. It is, above all, an opportunity for Swiss artists […]
Switzerland @ ILMC 2014 in London
Inaugurated in 1989, the International Live Music Conference (ILMC) swiftly became the first and most important meeting point for the global live concert industry. The declared aim of ILMC is “to bring professionals together to air their common goals, aims and issues, while providing unique networking opportunities”. ILMC has developed into a year-round organisation that […]
OY’s “No Problem Saloon” gains international release
Having signed on the dotted line with Crammed Discs, OY – the duo of keyboarder/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Joy Frempong and percussionist Lleluja-Ha will be physically releasing their album “No Problem Saloon” in 23 European territories as well as Japan on 24th March 2014. The album will also receive global digital distribution through PIAS DIGITAL and A-Train in […]
Heidi Happy with new album „Golden Heart“
“Golden Heart”, the new album from the inimitable Heidi Happy, is released on 7th March by Silent Mode/Irascible in Switzerland and by Icecreamdisco in Russia. Tonequake Records will release “Golden Heart” in North America in May. After the quieter “On the Hills”, Happy’s fifth album marks a joyful return of Happy’s more extravert side. Betraying […]
The Weyers’ album release in Germany „Within“
Brothers Adrian and Lukas Weyermann have been inspirational figures in Zurich’s thriving music scene for nearly two decades. Drummer Lukas was driving force behind the seriously rocking Mona Lisa Overdrive. Guitarist and pianist Adrian, on the other hand, released four albums with his hugely popular post-Britpop band Crank before recording another four albums as a […]
New album from Reto Burrell „Lucky Charm“
Blue Rose Records/Soulfood Music will be releasing singer/songwriter Reto Burrell’s seventh full-length album “Lucky Charm” on 28th March 2014. Burrell, though Swiss, and at present resident in Switzerland, spent some of his formative years in the United States which, perhaps, explains his affinity to a style of music that is generally termed “Americana”. With “Lucky […]
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill play “William S. Burroughs IN DUB”
The reliably idiosyncratic Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s latest album serves up another mighty surprise. Their seventh album “William S. Burroughs IN DUB” celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of William S. Burroughs with a “heavy ambient masterpiece in 15 chapters”. The band were supported and assisted in their creative quest by the William […]
