Tutti Frutti including Swiss ingredients – 10 Dec @ Urban Spree Berlin
Tutti Frutti Fest is a one-day indoor festival in Berlin at the Urban Spree venue. It takes place for the second time this year on 10 December, and, as in last year’s inaugural edition, several Swiss artists are scheduled to appear, Fai Baba, J&L Defer, Blind Butcher and Klaus Johann Grobe. For Fai Baba, see articles here and […]
Fai Baba with new Album
Fai Baba aka Fabian Sigmund is a constant musical surprise package and one of the busiest musicians in Switzerland to boot. Having started off from blues rock fried in extended echo-laden guitar workouts, he has arrived over six short years and five albums at a much more focused psychedelic glam rock style. Entitled “Sad & […]
Odd Beholder touring Germany
The dreampop outfit Odd Beholder are having a very busy year indeed. Having released their debut EP „Lightning“ on the Swiss Mouthwatering label in spring, they promoted the event with a long list of gigs around Switzerland, culminating in a memorable performance at the Bad Bonn Kilbi. Their second video was premiered on Clash magazine’s […]
Lord Kesseli & the Drums to conquer the UK and France
Lord Kesseli is Dominik Kesseli, an artist from the Eastern Swiss town St. Gallen who likes to wear strange white trousers, plays guitar and other things, and sings like a choir boy. The Drums is Michael Gallusser, a dreadlocked drummer who can also play a mean harmonium. Together, they create intense, hypnotic, slow-burning post-rock-pieces that […]
Velvet Two Stripes are back!
The Diggelmann sisters and Franca Mock – plus, live, on drums, Carlo Caduff – better known as Velvet Two Stripes are back. Having been somewhat quiet of late, the trio signed, like Zoot Woman, Oum Shatt, The Blood Arm and The Sounds, to the Berlin-based Snowhite label will be appearing live at the Snowhite Records birthday […]
Swiss Music Export at the Reeperbahn Festival 21 – 24 September 2016, Hamburg
The Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg is one of Swiss Music Export’s very favourite festivals – and we would like to share it with you! Setting the scene for an intense winter season of conferences and music business get-togethers, the Reeperbahn is the one we definitely would not want to miss. Always musically exciting, it is […]
Swiss Music Export at the Waves Festival 29 September – 1 October 2016
Swiss Music Export has been an admirer of the bijou Waves Vienna Festival from the very beginning. Of course, we will be there again this year, presenting a Swiss Business Mixer complete with a live music showcase. The Waves Festival – even without its Slovakian twin event in Bratislava – is still a geographically perfect platform for musicians […]
Are you ready for MaMA? SME @ MaMA, Paris 12 – 14 October 2016
Autumn time, MaMA time! The MaMA festival/conference is most definitely one of the more glamorous and thus eagerly anticipated events in the yearly music business calendar. Taking place in two of the most colourful areas of Paris, Montmartre and Pigalle, the event attracts music business professionals from 60 countries, representing major record labels as well […]
New The Beauty of Gemina Album ‚Minor Sun‘
“Minor Sun” is the title of a new album by the dark rock outfit Beauty of Gemina, out on 2 September. The electronic dark wave group was formed in 2006 by the singer, songwriter and keyboarder Michael Sele. Inspired by the darkness of the mountains of Sele’s Eastern Swiss environment, Beauty of Gemina is one […]
Crystal Ball and Shakra ready to rock Germany
Having recently toured with Krokus and The Poodles, the hard rocking and hardworking Crystal Ball are once again taking to the road, this time with another Swiss band, Shakra. The two crews will be touring Germany and Switzerland throughout the autumn. The quintet will be presenting songs from their new album, “Déja Voodoo”. Released on 2 […]
