Cyril Cyril, Let’s Go Go!
The mighty Cyril Cyril have a new album out. It’s called “Yallah Mickey Mouse”, meaning “Let’s go, Mickey Mouse”! It is released on 16 October on Bongo Joe Records/Born Bad. Cyril Cyril are so called because the band consists simply and solely of two Cyrils. One, surname Yeterian, plays accordion, banjo and myriad other instruments. […]
Panda Lux Are Having “Fun, Fun, Fun”
No, it’s not another compilation of the Beach Boys’ greatest hits – it’s the new album from the ever more fabulous Panda Lux, their second. “Fun, Fun, Fun” was released via Irascible on 25 September. Panda Lux are two brothers, Silvan and Samuel Kuntz, and two friends, Moritz Widrig and Janos Mijnssen, from way back […]
We Are the Inferno, According to Régis
Album titles don’t come much darker than this – “L’Enfer c’est nous”, or, in English, “The inferno, that’s us”. Fortunately for him and us, the Geneva-based singer/songwriter Régis appears to have a sense of humour. His music isn’t nearly as glum as that title would seem to suggest. The title track is, in fact, a […]
Egopusher Pushing Beyond
After a series of riveting singles, remixes and a mini-album, the much-travelled Egopusher at last release their second album. It is called “Beyond” and comes out on 9 October via the Zurich-based experimental electronica label Quiet Love Records (motto: “We release music by people we like who make music we love.”). Egopusher are violinist Tobias […]
Rabin Rocks the Blues
Guitarist Félix Rabin’s debut mini album “Pogboy”, released on 25 September, is distributed everywhere via Phonag Records. Born in Britany but living in Neuchâtel, Félix Rabin was raised on his parent’s record collection, classic rock, in other words, from Jimi Hendrix to Pink Floyd. Aged fifteen, pretty much at the same time as the family […]
The Two Romans Want “Everything. Now!”
Big emotions and big choruses are the speciality of The Two Romans, a six-piece from the Bernese Oberland. “Everything. Now!” is their debut album – it is not totally new. Released last April, it reached number 4 in the official Swiss album charts, no mean feat for a young and home-grown guitar outfit competing in […]
Greetings From JAS CRW
“Greetings from” is the title of the debut EP from Zurich-based vocal trio JAS CRW. It was released on the last weekend in August, aka, in any other year, the Notting Hill Carnival weekend. With production contributions by the likes of Jamie Rodigan (UK), Meek (Germany) and Ketelby James, the musical director of STRG studio […]
Laurence Desarzens is New SME President
A very warm welcome to Laurence Desarzens, the new president of the board of Swiss Music Export! Laurence replaces Balthasar Glättli who performed this function from 2014 until 2020. Balthasar resigned from SME in order to devote more time to his other occupations which include the presidency of the Green Party of Switzerland and a […]
Hallucinating Hunger
4 September sees the release via Caroline International of Sophie Hunger’s new album, her seventh, entitled “Halluzinationen”. Produced, like “Molecules” in 2018, by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey (Kae – formerly Kate – Tempest, Fontaines DC, Warmduscher, Black Midi, etc), it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in six continuous live takes. Shaped very much by […]
La Gale in an Acrimonious Mood
Lausanne-based rapper and actress La Gale’s new album, “Acrimonium”, was released on 31 July on Vitesse Records. With a Swiss father and a Lebanese mother, La Gale, aka Karine Guignard, has always had a sharp eye for the border areas between cultures. A punk fan in her teenage years, she discovered rap in her twenties, […]
