Perseverance Pays off for Peter Kernel
They’re the self-proclaimed “best band in the world called Peter Kernel”, and they’ve been going for fifteen years. Quite rightly, the brains behind this much-loved maverick operation, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti, have decided that this is an event worth celebrating. They will do so with an album appropriately entitled “Perseverance: 15 Years of Peter […]
Long Tall Jefferson with His Head in the Clouds
“Cloud Folk” is the intriguing title of Long Tall Jefferson’s new album, his third. It was released on 20 November via Red Brick Chapel Records. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, they say. Well, LTJ aka Simon Borer has gone and done just that! After two albums of quietly ruminative songs cast in a […]
Michal Turtle Reinterpreted
An artist long operating on the fringes of the avant-garde world, the Basel-based, British-born lo-fi electronica experimenter Michal Turtle is at last receiving some long overdue “mainstream” recognition. Back in June we announced in this space the release of his latest record, a 12” entitled “On a Canvas Lived a Baby”. Now follows a very […]
Brandão, Faber and Hunger Love You All!
Lockdown summer wasn’t all bad. “Ich liebe Dich” – an album shared by the percussionist Dino Brandão, and singer/songwriters Sophie Hunger and Faber – is one of the many unforeseen and unplanned projects that came to fruition purely because of it. “Ich liebe Dich” is released on 11 December 2020 by Two Gentlemen Records. Percussionist […]
Die Aeronauten Say Goodbye with Nine Extra Lives
The wave of grief that went through the whole of the Swiss music scene when Olifr Maurmann aka Guz died after a long illness in February was extraordinary. With the posthumously completed album “Neun Extraleben”, the remaining members of his band, Die Aeronauten, have delivered a truly wonderful epitaph to a great musician and friend. […]
Feldermelder Launches Future Holographic Suns
26 November 2020 saw the release of Feldermelder’s psychedelically titled new album “For Future Holographic Suns” on cassette as well as digitally via Berlin-based Kinship Records. Using instruments and FX emerging from the sixties, Feldermelder – in his own words – “forms a storytelling as an Ursprache of ear speech, that hovers over horizons of […]
Lucia Cadotsch with More “Low Speak”
Four years after her first volume of “Speak Low”, also the first album Lucia Cadotsch released under her own name, she follows it up with a second volume, “Speak Low 2”. Once again bringing together vocalist Cadotsch with two Swedish improvisers, tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjö and upright bassist Petter Eldh, “Speak Low 2” was released […]
Max Apollo Seizes the “Power”
Max Apollo announced his arrival two years ago with an impressive debut album carrying the entirely misleading title, “In Absolute Silence”. Still only 24 years old, he now follows this up with “Power”, a five-track EP that amply demonstrates his knack for capturing a catchy melody and welding it on to a powerful rock groove. […]
Brandnew Equality Platform for Swiss Music
Women as well as non-binary, trans and inter people have long been marginalised in the Swiss music world. Launched by the self-help organisation Helvetiarockt, a new internet platform and data base, musicdirectory.ch, is designed to fill this gap. Helvetiarockt was formed in 2009 specifically to further the cause of women in the Swiss music business. […]
