Europe’s (Showcase) Festivals and Conferences with SME
There are many showcase festivals to choose from, and Swiss Music Export chooses only the best! Throughout the year, we present showcases all over Europe, we host networking events, and we serve up apéros and brunches, all in the service of music made in Switzerland. Better still, delegate passes and tickets are often a lot […]
To Athena definitely has not lost her magic!
To Athena is the name of singer/songwriter Tiffany Limacher’s solo project, and her new album, her third, poses the entirely rhetorical question: “Have I Lost My Magic?”. It is available now from Mouthwatering Records. Tiffany celebrates the release with well over thirty concerts in Switzerland, Germany and Austria over the coming months. Born into a […]
Odd Beholder – all in an honest day’s work
Daniela Weinmann – aka Odd Beholder – likes a concept album. Previous song cycles have focused on the digitalisation of our world, modern concepts of nature, and the circumstances that have formed her own life. For her fourth album, “Honest Work” (out now via Sinnbus), she delves deep into the everyday politics of work. “Honest […]
New feelings from Valentino Vivace
The surreally tailored and coiffured Italo-Disco prince Valentino Vivace (not his real name) has enjoyed a whirlwind life of partying, dancing and – let’s not forget – working hard over the last couple of years. It is totally understandable, then, that he feels the need to slow down a little for his new album, “Oscillare”. […]
Out of this world Annie Taylor
Drop the needle anywhere on “Out of Scale” and it’s instantly clear that with this, their third LP, Gini Jungi’s high-octane rockers Annie Taylor have truly hit their stride. Out now, the album is the band’s first released under their new deal with Hamburg-based Clouds Hill Records. Blessed with deeply sympathetic production work from David […]
Femi Luna washing her pain away
A good three years after her debut album, singer/songwriter Femi Luna (aka Euphemia Fokkens) releases her stunning follow-up, “Wash My Pain Away”. The twelve-song collection was recorded with Canadian producer/composer Michael Dubue and percussionist Adam Bradley Schreiber at Cimetière Studio in rural Québec. As if the atmosphere in this church/studio wasn’t evocative enough, the three-week […]
Magic & Naked & grown up
Genevan chamber psychedelicists Magic & Naked deliver a compelling fourth album via Robin Girod’s Cheptel Records. Officially, the band that started as a school project now consists of Romain Deshusses (guitar, vocals), Elie Ghersinu (bass, vocals), Léonard Persoz (guitar), and Augustin Von Arx, drums. No mention is made of the battery of effect pedals and […]
The Great Escape – let SME show you the way!
The whole town one big, bright and brash song and dance – that is Brighton during the Great Escape weekend. An archetypal English seaside town for two centuries, not even the odd rain shower can ruin the terrific vibe of ramshackle architecture, freshly baked mini donuts on the pier, and second-hand record emporia stuffed with […]
BombayMami bringing peace
Already causing quite a stir in India, BombayMami’s debut album “Peaceful Attitude” is out now on MNRK Records. “A searing hotpot of soulful grooves, introspective lyrics, catchy beats, classical instrumentation and Bollywood throwbacks”, Indian Rolling Stone informs us in a major story in their latest edition, “Peaceful Attitude plays out like a slow-burning meditation on […]
A Pass and Kaboo creating miracles
Out now via Home Crowd Recordings comes the hotly anticipated first album from Ugandan singer, A Pass, and Swiss producer Kaboo. A Pass, aka Alexander Bagonza, is one of the most popular Ugandan singers of recent years. Working with a number of reggae producers in the early 2010s, he subsequently broadened his musical horizons to […]
