SME at The Great Escape, Brighton UK – 11 – 14 May 2022
Analogue stages, analogue musicians, and analogue audiences – yes, The Great Escape returns to the streets of Brighton, and so do we from Swiss Music Export. As ever, we’ve booked ourselves into the grooviest club in town, the Komedia Studio Bar, for the revival of our traditional Swiss Business Mixer. Also as ever, we will […]
District Five Burn the Sugar
March 25 saw the release of Zurich quartet District Five’s long-awaited debut album, “Burnt Sugar”, by A Tree in a Field Records. Named after the part of Zurich where they all live, District Five present themselves more like a community event than a conventional band. Alongside this, their long-term project, the members of the group […]
Observations and Descriptions from Honey for Petzi
“Observations + Descriptions” is album number eight from the fabulous post-rock trio Honey for Petzi from Lausanne. It was released as a CD as well as digitally on 8 April by Two Gentlemen Records. The vinyl version will follow on 22 April. It contains the band’s first new material after an eleven-year hiatus. Somewhat more […]
Kate Birch Celebrating “The Fool”
Violinist Laura Schuler released her second album under the guise of “Kate Birch” on 1 April 2022 via Red Brick Chapel Records. Digital distribution is coordinated by Leipzig-based recordJet. “The Fool” takes as its starting point a number of conversations Birch conducted in Switzerland as well as during her two residencies in New York, including […]
The Bear Does Cry
Already a familiar face and voice to pop fans in Switzerland, Marius Bear’s new album “Boys Do Cry” is guaranteed to be heard all over Europe. Released on 25 March on Hi-Tea Records, the 12-track album has already hit number five in the Swiss charts. More importantly, however, Bear has been selected to represent Switzerland […]
Muddy Monk is the “Ultra Dramatic Kid”
The strangely named Muddy Monk – aka singer/songwriter Guillaume Dietrich – is a chansonnier with a penchant for languid melancholy and leafy electronica sounds. 1 April 2022 saw the release of his second album, “Ultra Dramatic Kid”, via the Paris-based independent label Half Awake. “Ultra Dramatic Kid” marks a big step forward, artistically, for Dietrich. […]
Pascal Gamboni Gets “Under the Skin”
“Sut La Pial” is singer/songwriter Pascal Gamboni’s tenth album. It is released on 15 April by Waterfall of Colours. “Sut La Pial” means “under the skin” in Romansch, the fourth national language in Switzerland, spoken mostly in the mountainous Eastern region of the country. Gamboni likes to use percussion instruments from all over the world, […]
Flexfab & Ziller Bas Go Full-Throttle “Mugogo!”
It began with a spontaneous stage invasion in a small club in Kilifi, a small town fifty miles North of Mombasa, Kenya. Three years later it has ended – for the moment – in an album containing no fewer than 22 tracks, all sparkling with the sheer joy of a super witty cross-cultural encounter that […]
Still Watching Visions in Clouds?
April 15 sees the release of “Are You Still Watching?”, the third album from electro-pop duo Visions in Clouds. CD and vinyl are distributed by the Paris-based label, Icy Cold Records. Lucerne-based Little Jig Records is responsible for the digital version. Pascal Zeder (vocals, guitar, synth) and Simon Schurtenberger (percussion) teamed up in 2015 to […]
The Swiss at Le Printemps – 19 – 24 April 2022, Bourges France
At last, the Printemps de Bourges – one of Swiss Music Export’s very favourite boutique festivals – returns to real life! First staged in 1977, the Printemps is here to support all forms of Francophone music. This year, the French part of Switzerland is represented by four acts: Psycho Weazel, Flèche Love, Vendredi Sur Mer, […]
