Enjoy Europe’s Best Showcase Festivals in the Company of Swiss Music Export
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 […]
It’s MaMA Time Again! 13 – 15 Oct 2021 – Paris, France
MaMA Festival & Conference – three days, seven venues, 80 concerts, 150 conference events, and the most romantic urban setting imaginable – or, as the organisers would have it: “100% Pigalle”. Returning from its lockdown-inflicted exile in the virtual world to a proper festival environment with real artists, audiences and venues, this year’s edition will […]
Waves Vienna – 9 – 11 Sept 2021 – Vienna, Austria
Waves Vienna is back on a proper stage this autumn, and Swiss Music Export will be along to celebrate. Long-term fans of the Waves Vienna festival, we thought last year’s hybrid lockdown version was an amazing success, given the unfortunate circumstances. However, we are more than happy to return to the real thing. Once again, […]
Reeperbahn Festival – 22 – 25 Sept 2021 – Hamburg, Germany
How we missed the Reeperbahn Festival! The hybrid version forced on us last year by the Corona virus turned out to be not bad at all, the best, certainly, that could be expected in a difficult situation. However, we are mighty glad to be physically back in Hamburg this year, returning to all the things […]
KT Gorique at Les iNOUïS du Printemps de Bourges
It should have happened in spring, and it will now happen in summer: postponed from April due to Covid-19, this year’s Printemps de Bourges is taking place at the end of June. The season might be different, but we’re absolutely certain that the spirit of this most bijou and innovative of boutique festivals in the […]
Coilguns Shake Your Walls
The loudest band anywhere, ever, strikes again! “Watchwinders” is Coilguns’ third abum. It was released on 25 October 2019 via their guitarist Jonathan Nido’s own, multi-connected Hummus Records. Having expanded their line-up from a trio to a quartet with the arrival of multi-instrumentalist Donatien Thievent, and interrupting an extensive tour following the release of their […]
Blind Butcher pissing in colours
Sorry about the language. But that’s how Blind Butcher want it. “Piss Me a Rainbow” is the third album by Christian Aregger and Roland Bucher, aka Blind Butcher. It will be released on 11 October 2019 by Irascible Records. And, as we have come to expect from these restless souls, the boys from Lucerne have […]
Dirty Sound Magnet go Transgenic
18 October 2019 sees the worldwide release of Dirty Sound Magnet’s new album, “Transgenic”, via Hummus Records. It is the psychedelic rockers’ fourth and available in all formats including coloured vinyl as well as a range of bundles, including t-shirts sporting, like the album sleeve, artwork by drummer Maxime Consadey. Dirty Sound Magnet define the […]
Cairo Concepts at WOMEX – 23 – 27 Oct 2019 – Tampere Finland
Basel-based writer, Middle East specialist and artist Phil Battiekh has been invited to present his Cairo Concepts showcase at this year’s WOMEX Conference/Festival in Tampere, Finland. Battiekh conceived and rehearsed this showcase for three weeks during a sponsored residency in Pro Helvetia’s studio in Cairo. According to Phil Battiekh, the showcase presents an “all-star delegation representing […]
Swiss Music Export at MaMA Paris – 16 – 18 October 2019 – Paris, France
120 concerts, 10 venues, countless conference events, three nights of party and the greatest sounds of tomorrow in the company of almost 6000 business professionals – plus, the whole of Paris to enjoy: what’s not to like! This year marks the tenth anniversary of the MaMA Festival & Convention in Paris. It is bound to […]
