OY’s “No Problem Saloon” gains international release
Having signed on the dotted line with Crammed Discs, OY – the duo of keyboarder/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Joy Frempong and percussionist Lleluja-Ha will be physically releasing their album “No Problem Saloon” in 23 European territories as well as Japan on 24th March 2014. The album will also receive global digital distribution through PIAS DIGITAL and A-Train in […]
Heidi Happy with new album „Golden Heart“
“Golden Heart”, the new album from the inimitable Heidi Happy, is released on 7th March by Silent Mode/Irascible in Switzerland and by Icecreamdisco in Russia. Tonequake Records will release “Golden Heart” in North America in May. After the quieter “On the Hills”, Happy’s fifth album marks a joyful return of Happy’s more extravert side. Betraying […]
The Weyers’ album release in Germany „Within“
Brothers Adrian and Lukas Weyermann have been inspirational figures in Zurich’s thriving music scene for nearly two decades. Drummer Lukas was driving force behind the seriously rocking Mona Lisa Overdrive. Guitarist and pianist Adrian, on the other hand, released four albums with his hugely popular post-Britpop band Crank before recording another four albums as a […]
New album from Reto Burrell „Lucky Charm“
Blue Rose Records/Soulfood Music will be releasing singer/songwriter Reto Burrell’s seventh full-length album “Lucky Charm” on 28th March 2014. Burrell, though Swiss, and at present resident in Switzerland, spent some of his formative years in the United States which, perhaps, explains his affinity to a style of music that is generally termed “Americana”. With “Lucky […]
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill play “William S. Burroughs IN DUB”
The reliably idiosyncratic Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s latest album serves up another mighty surprise. Their seventh album “William S. Burroughs IN DUB” celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of William S. Burroughs with a “heavy ambient masterpiece in 15 chapters”. The band were supported and assisted in their creative quest by the William […]
FROM KID’s Caribbean Carnival
From Kid is the nom de plume of singer/songwriters, guitarists and keyboarders Andrin Berchtold and Gian Reto Camenisch. Having embarked on their song writing partnership a year ago, they live and work in an old farm house on the edge of Chur in the mountainous Eastern Swiss canton of Grisons. In August 2013 they released […]
MaMA Event Paris online artists submission open now
A gateway to the French music market, MaMA offers the opportunity to around 100 up and coming artists at a ratio of 50% French, 50% international, to play for an international audience of music professionals, media and – with half of the venues’ capacity reserved for the public – Parisian music fans. This year’s MaMA […]
We Invented Paris release “Rocket Spaceship Thing”
February 14th sees the release of the sophomore album by music/arts collective We Invented Paris. Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, the band was able to spend three intensely creative months recording the album in the idyllic and inspirational surroundings of a real, old-fashioned castle, Schloss Röhrsdorf near Dresden in the East of Germany. We […]
Anna Aaron releases 2nd album “NEURO”
Anna Aaron’s second album “NEURO” will be released by Two Gentlemen (distribution: Irascible) on 28 February. Even the title of her very first EP, “I’ll Dry Your Tears Little Murderer”, marked pianist Anna Aaron out as a talent with a singular vision in today’s overcrowded pool of singing songwriters. She followed this up two years […]
Brand new album “Numerals” from Disco Doom
Zurich-based quartet Disco Doom’s fifth full album “Numerals” was released on 7 February on Defer Records (EU/Switzerland), and on 11 February on Exploding in Sound Records (USA/Canada). The album is available as a digital download and on vinyl. Disco Doom are one of longest-serving, most popular and also internationally most successful guitar-driven bands from Switzerland. […]
