Bridge Building @ Label Suisse Festival Lausanne, 18 – 20 September 2020
Another festival still taking place this year is Label Suisse in Lausanne. The free festival aims to represent Swiss music in all its abundant stylistic and linguistic variety. The music programme is as exciting as ever and includes performances by Camilla Sparksss, Klaus Johann Grobe, Hyperculte, Nik Bärtsch, Crimer, La Gale, Blind Butcher, Kety Fusco, Erik Truffaz […]
FlexFab Meets Ziller Bas in a Mugogo Style!
Electronic beats from Lake Neuchâtel and words from the Kenyan coast – it all began with an impromptu session in a small club in Kilifi. With 5 million streams for his single “Zoo” alone, a host of awards including “Best Emerging Talent” at Swiss Live Talents and the overall “Best Track” at the m4music Demo […]
Divvas Dive Deep
26 June sees the release of Divvas’s debut EP, “Challenger Deep”. The release is shared by the London-based Slow Dance label and Zurich-based Blau Blau Records. Corinne Nora is a multi-instrumentalist and composer active in a variety of music, theatre and dance projects. Dave Eleanor is a singer and producer who has forged his own […]
A Muddy Monk and an Ultra Tape
12 June saw the release on Half Awake Records of “Ultra Tape”, the new mini album from electro-chansonnier Muddy Monk. Fribourg on the border between the French and the German part of Switzerland, with its charmingly old-fashioned vibe and a small but inspirational museum of the kinetic works of Jean Tinguely, has always been a […]
The World Seen from a Bitter Moon
Bitter Moon are Réka (vocals, synths) and Simon (synths and drum machine). They split their home between Lugano and Zurich. “The World Above” is, after a handful of singles and EPs, their debut album. It was released on 20 May by La Suisse Primitive Records. Distantly related, sound-wise, to both Jane Weaver and Klaus Johann […]
Swimming with Arthur Hnatek
SWIMS is the latest project from drummer extraordinaire, Arthur Hnatek. Described by Hnatek as “the exploration between acoustic improvisation and functional dance music”, the debut EP “SWIMS” was released on 19 June 2020 on Mouthwatering Records. Arthur Hnatek is a busy man. The list of projects featuring his involvement is long. Best known for his […]
Michal Turtle’s Baby on a Canvas
“On a Canvas Lived a Baby” is the baffling title of a new 12” record by the lo-fi-electronica experimenter Michal Turtle. It is released in a limited vinyl edition by the Basel-based Planisphere label, the first part of a trilogy, with an extensive remix collection and a new, collaborative LP and AV project promised for […]
Gaspar Narby’s transatlantically broken heart
Electronic singer/songwriter Gaspar Narby celebrates the release of a new EP, “Transatlantic”, and a new single, “Sirenes” via the Basel and Hamburg based Radicalis label. Both, EP and single, came out on 5 June 2020. “Transatlantic” offers an atmospheric slice of trippy electro pop, with lyrics about the end of a long distance relationships, and […]
Aftermath with Atlas Clouds
There is an early Rolling Stones album called “Aftermath” – and this “Aftermath” sounds nothing like it! Atlas Clouds’ follow up to their debut LP “Close My Eyes” from 2018, an EP, was released on 12 June 2020 by Waterfall of Colours Records. Atlas Clouds is the solo project of singer/songwriter Christoph Meier who also […]
Brand New Ruins
29 May 2020 saw the release of “Creature”, the third album from Zurich-based guitar band The Ruins on Ambulance Recordings. The fierce name is somewhat misleading. The Ruins are neither an ear-splittingly loud heavy metal combo nor an avant-garde outfit intent on deconstructing music as we know it. Formed in 2007 as an acoustic folk […]
