Major Label Deals for Three Swiss Acts
No fewer than three acts supported by Swiss Music Export, Danitsa, Bandit Voyage, and Priya Ragu, have announced new deals with major labels in the past few weeks! Danitsa The Geneva-based rapper with a Jamaican family background has already released her first single, “Let Go”, under her new deal with Island Records/Universal. An album is […]
AMOA wants You!
The name is as mysterious as the mood of the songs she sings. Hiding behind the name AMOA is the singer. Andrea Thoma. 19 February 2021 sees the release of her debut album, “You” via Radicalis. Avoiding the traditional verse/chorus of conventional pop songs, AMOA has written eleven songs that drift, hover and float across […]
Crème Solaire – Burning Hot Sun Lotion
Crème Solaire – aka suntan cream – is meant to protect from sun burn. This Crème Solaire does anything but! Combining the electronic punk nous of Pascal Stoll and the fiery vocals of Rebecca Solari, Crème Solaire call their music “electro-punk-glitch-hop-absurd-pop”, and they’re not wrong. “Pannenstreifen ist ohne pic-nic” is their second album, and it […]
Eutropic – A Day Dream for the Dark Age
5 February sees the release of “Dark Age Day Dream”, the new album from Bernese synth band Eutropic. Describing themselves as an “analogue synth-obsessed avant pop trio”, they mine a seam of influences that begins at the darker end of 1980s synth pop, with influences like Bauhaus, Xmal Deutschland and Clan of Xymox. It is […]
Mnevis – A Fresh Course of Events
Ever wondered what a Mnevis is? Well, we’re going to tell you anyway. In Egyptian mythology, Mnevis is the bull-like manifestation of chief God Atum-Ra’s lifeforce, Ka. Mnevis is also a band from Lucerne, and “The Course of Events” is the title of their new album. It was released on 29 January 2021 on Red […]
Boodaman in Overdrive for Subsequent
It took Genevan synth maestro Boodaman – aka Stéphane Caviglioli – ten years to come up with a follow-up album to his debut from 2008. Helped by a Covid-enforced exile at home, “Subsequent”, his third, was completed in a super-fast two years. It is released on 5 February via Threeeknobs Records/Irascible. Boodaman describes himself as […]
Grandbrothers Promise “All the Unknown”
It is a big promise, and Grandbrothers fully intend to keep it. “All the Unkown” is the title of the experimental piano/electronica duo’s new album, their third. It is released on 15 January 2021 by City Slang. Having previously set themselves the rule that all their sounds would be created in the moment, they have […]
Perseverance Pays off for Peter Kernel
They’re the self-proclaimed “best band in the world called Peter Kernel”, and they’ve been going for fifteen years. Quite rightly, the brains behind this much-loved maverick operation, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti, have decided that this is an event worth celebrating. They will do so with an album appropriately entitled “Perseverance: 15 Years of Peter […]
Long Tall Jefferson with His Head in the Clouds
“Cloud Folk” is the intriguing title of Long Tall Jefferson’s new album, his third. It was released on 20 November via Red Brick Chapel Records. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, they say. Well, LTJ aka Simon Borer has gone and done just that! After two albums of quietly ruminative songs cast in a […]
Michal Turtle Reinterpreted
An artist long operating on the fringes of the avant-garde world, the Basel-based, British-born lo-fi electronica experimenter Michal Turtle is at last receiving some long overdue “mainstream” recognition. Back in June we announced in this space the release of his latest record, a 12” entitled “On a Canvas Lived a Baby”. Now follows a very […]
