Label Suisse Lausanne – 16 – 18 Sept 2022
After a period of restricted service due to reasons too tedious to talk about yet again, the free festival Label Suisse, launched in 2004 by RTS, the French-Swiss branch of the national public service radio station, returns to normality mode. Aiming to represent Swiss music in all its abundant stylistic and linguistic variety, Label Suisse […]
SME at Waves Festival Vienna – Thu 8 – Sat 10 Sept 2022
No other festival generates quite the same ambience as Waves Festival. This is partly due to the setting, Vienna, a fascinatingly picturesque town where Eastern Europe meets the West, and partly to the concept of the festival which is to turn geographical reality into program. Of course, with the Balkans as well as the countries […]
Alma Negra Love Kenya
Entitled “Harambee”, the new EP from Basel-based groove collective Alma Negra was released on 1 July 2022 via their own Alma Negra imprint. Formed around a core trio of the Figueira brothers, Dersu and Diego, with roots in Cape Verde, and Spaniard Mario Robles, the collective draws on the talents of a variety of contributors, […]
Blind Boy De Vita Reaches Another Harbour
“Ship Docking” is part one of a new album from Italo-Swiss space-blues maestro Blind Boy De Vita. The album, entitled “La Zattera” (Italian for “raft”), is spread across two EPs, the first of which was released on 17 June 2022 by Mouthwatering Records. Born and raised in Southern Italy, Blind Boy De Vita, aka Glauco […]
The Paléo Is Back
At last – after its two-year exile in the virtual world, the Glastonbury of Switzerland is back. Blessed with an idyllic location in the beautiful green fields near Lake Geneva, anyone who has ever been to the Paléo Festival will want to return again and again. An adventurous programming policy that takes in anything from […]
Leoni Leoni Celebrates Her Debut Album
3 June 2022 sees the release of “Leoni Leoni”, the debut album proper – after four long-playing cassettes! – of the Bernese artist, Leoni Leoni, via the super-trusty folks at Les Disques Bongo Joe. Leoni Leoni – aka New York New York – hadn’t even reached her teenage years when she began to experiment with […]
Sensu in Love with “LDN”
“Numéro LDN” is the title of electro/post-drum’n’bass/hip-hop producer Sensu’s new EP, released on 10 June 2022 via Orange Peel Agency. The title, “Numéro LDN” pays tribute both to the French fashion and art magazine “Numéro” whose offshoots in different cities are called “Numéro Berlin” or “Numéro Paris”, and, of course, London, despite Brexit still the […]
“Waves” of Argyle
Out now is “Waves”, a new 5-track EP on Universal Records from the singer-songwriter, Argyle. Blessed by the sort of slightly-hoarse voice that simultaneously suggests a colourful past, a yearning libido, and little-boy-lostness, Argyle’s songs are cut from a similar melodic cloth as those of fellow-Scot Lewis Capaldi, Dermot Kennedy or George Ezra. As the […]
Giulia Dabalà Digging for “Gold”
Newly out via Irascible is “Gold”, the highly anticipated debut album from Swiss/Italian singer and songwriter Giulia Dabalà. It took Dabalà three years to compose and record the eight tracks that make up the record, an indication of how much care and heart she invests in her work. Almost in passing, and thus considerably yanking […]
Swiss Music Prizes by the Federal Office of Culture and Swiss Music Awards 2022
The “Swiss music prizes” is a collection of awards handed out each year by the „Federal Office of Culture“ to celebrate the achievements of artists and composers from all corners of the Swiss music world. The Swiss Grand Award for music 2022, decided upon by a jury consisting of seven music specialists representing the various […]
