The Animen @ FluxFM Festival im FluxBau, Berlin
FluxFM is an alternative, extensive and successful Berlin-based multi-media network, incorporating radio, online platform, local community, as well as events and promotion. On 23 January, the Animen have been invited to present their debut album “Hi!” live during the FluxFM Festival. The band has proved highly popular with the DJs as well as the listeners […]
OY have joined forces with Crammed Discs
OY have joined forces with Crammed Discs, who are releasing her next album „No Problem Saloon“ in March 2014. The album will be preceded by the single „Market Place“, illustrated by a video shot in Accra, Ghana. http://www.oy-music.com http://www.crammed.be
Annakin “Stand Your Ground” Album Release
Ex-Swandive singer Annakin will be releasing the fourth album under her own steam on 17 January. Annakin recorded her new album “Stand Your Ground” at Trevor Horn’s Sarm West studio complex in Notting Hill, London. It was produced by Dimitri Tikovoi whose credits include Sophie Ellis Bextor, Charli XCX, Mikky Ekko, the Horrors as well […]
Sinplus “Up to Me” Album Release
After the release of their latest single “Phoenix from the Ashes” last October, January 17th sees the release of Sinplus’s second album, “Up to Me”. Sinplus is Gabriel and Ivan Broggini, two brothers from Losone in the Italian part of Switzerland. Gabriel sings, and Ivan plays the guitar. As early as aged thirteen, both were […]
Mya Audrey signs with Royal Flame Music/22d Music Group
Mya Audrey is a pianist and singer/songwriter in the tradition of Carole King, albeit with a slightly jazzier touch. In 2009, she released her self-produced debut album “Sudden Breeze”. It caused enough of a ripple to attract a fine group of musicians to help record her second album, “Wayfaring Trails” (Sophie Records/Irascible), including Luk Zimmermann […]
Sophie Hunger documentary package „The Rules of Fire“ out December 6th
„Six years ago I played my first show at a small bar in a small city of a small country, Switzerland,“ writes Sophie Hunger. Six years later – as she continues – after having played hundreds of international shows and travelled thousands of kilometres, she felt the time had come to document her progress with […]
Velvet Two Stripes @ Les Trans Musicales Festival, Rennes
Velvet Two Stripes: Saturday 7 December @ Parc Expo, Hall 3; 03.30-04.15h The last major festival in Europe this year is also one of the most popular and most interesting. From its inception in those distant New Wave-days of 1979, the pioneering Rencontres Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes was conceived as a place to discover […]
Support programme for Swiss independent labels
CHF 80‘000 for Swiss independent labels: The Migros Culture Percentage and the m4music Festival are calling for projects until the 6th of December 2013. In the past, labels such Moi J’Connais Records, Two Gentlemen and On the Camper Records were supported. Find out more here: Deutsch: http://www.migros-kulturprozent.ch/foerderung/211/default.aspx Français: http://www.pour-cent-culturel-migros.ch/recherche_de_fonds/376/default.aspx
New Swiss Music Export Website and new partner
Brighter, better and more fun: the new-look Swiss Music Export is here! User-friendly with a clear layout, our re-designed website boasts many new features, including: More in-depth information about SME-supported artists, complete with music samples, biographies and more Search facility with easy-to-find tags Sharing facility for individual news items and stories via facebook, Twitter, e-mail, […]
The bianca Story’s third album „Digger“ release
Basel-based music and multi-media collective The bianca Story’s third album “Digger” will be released on 29. November on Motor Music. A special art/music event for the release is happening already at the 8th of November at the Michael Fuchs Galerie in Berlin-Mitte. As reported in these pages last month, the band is experimenting with a […]
