Swiss Live Talents 2022 – MUMA
Swiss Live Talents is a two-day festival taking place every other year in order to discover the best live acts in Switzerland. This year, more than 800 applications had to be sifted through in order to compile the lists of five nominations each in six categories (Pop/Indie/Folk/Songwriting, Rock Metal, Electro Dance, Urban Hip-Hop/Groove/Reggae, National Language, […]
Hermanos Gutiérrez Teaming Up With Dan Auerbach
Los Hermanos Gutiérrez have landed a real coup with their new album, their fifth. “El Bueno Y El Malo”, released on 28 October 2022, was not only produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach in his studio in Nashville. It was also releases by Auerbach’s own record label, Easy Eye Sound. Despite the album’s title, […]
Black Sea Dahu Hitting Their Orbit
To keep them company on another mammoth tour, Black Sea Dahu are releasing a new EP via Mouthwatering Records on 11 November 2022. Entitled “Orbit”, it contains four new songs, all written by their singer, Janine Cathrein. The band formed around the two Cathrein sisters, Janine and Vera, has been on the road incessantly since […]
KT Gorique Explores a “New Babylon”
18 November 2022 sees the release via Creepy Music of “New Babylon”, the new EP from KT Gorique. With a fiery, witty and, above all, musically innovative title track leading the way, the EP amply demonstrates the rapper’s ability to draw new shapes and nuances from a style she calls “Future Roots”. Born in Abidjan, […]
Kalabrese Continues On His Love Rumble
Continuing on his strange obsession with the word “rumpel”, Zurich’s maverick post-house producer Kalabrese releases his follow-up to last year’s “Let Love Rumpel Vol 1” album. Available now via Rumpelmusig, it is inevitably called “Let Love Rumpel Vol 2”. Reviewing his first solo album, “Rumpelzirkus”, after quitting his gig as the drummer of the […]
Mehmet Aslan Seeking the Sun
Out on the Basel-based Planisphere label on 11 November 2022 is the debut album from Mehmet Aslan, “The Sun is Parallel”. Mehmet, a DJ raised in Switzerland by Turkish parents, trawls the richly rewarding history of Turkish pop and underground music to produce his very own wildly eclectic brand of present-day dance psychedelia. At the […]
Pablo Nouvelle Celebrates “Vulnerability”
Ten years after his debut, beats architect Pablo Nouvelle has arrived at his eighth album. Entitled “Vulnerability”, it was released by the Amsterdam-based Armada Electronic Elements label on 21 October 2022. With a title track built around a snippet from a conversation between the singer Anaiis and the actress Deborah Lukumuena (“You can’t be strong […]
Ay Wing Taps Into the Bloodstream
Three years after “Orange Dreamer”, a track that boasts six-figure downloads and has popped up in countless playlists, singer/songwriter/producer Ay Wing finally delivers her debut album. “Bloodstream” is available now via Mouthwatering Records. Combining a featherlight touch with vocal melodies with beat-heavy R&B-inspired grooves and intimate, introspective lyrics, Berlin-based Ay Wing aka Alexandra Landtwing also […]
Tatum Rush Has Built Himself a Villa
“Villa Tatum” is multi-talented Tatum Rush’s first album sung entirely in Italian. It is available now from Undamento in digital form as well as on vinyl. To celebrate the release, the artist, with help from the Lastanza Collective, has built himself his own dream home, filled with music, video clips and – how cutting edge […]
Fomies Experiencing “Sudden Lag”
“Sudden Lag” is a rather odd title to choose for an album that clearly demonstrates a band’s remarkable progress in the last couple of years! Released on 21 October 2022 via Hummus/Irascible, the Vevey-based quintet’s third LP produces a volcanic eruption of synth-laced psychedelic guitar rock, with a hint of art rock and glam thrown […]
