Kadebostany Planning for Their Funerals
“Play This at My Funerals” – an intriguing request, we’re sure you’ll agree. It is also the title of streaming billionaire Guillaume de Kadebostany’s fourth album, released on 2 June 2023 by Ambulance Recordings. Starting off a good dozen years ago with the concept of a mock musical army complete with semi-ironic uniforms and a […]
Hook Finds Inspiration in Kenya
Producer Hook’s first solo-EP celebrates his work with Nairobi’s thriving music scene. Entitled “Planting Seeds”, the record is released via Irascible Records. Long associated with FlexFab, Murmures Barbares, Yeba and other French-Swiss hip-hop acts, Neuchatel-based Hook has over the years forged a particularly strong bond with the tireless, globetrotting experimenter, Muthoni Drummer Queen. His frequent […]
Phoam Offering Full “Disclosure”
Three years into their career, electro-rocking four-piece Phoam are releasing their debut album, “Disclosure”. Serving up ten slices of chrome-plated, big-sounding tunes with a dark undertow, no one would be surprised to see the band follow in the footsteps of Killers and Imagine Dragons on to the big stages of our big festivals. “We […]
Boodaman on Planet Nine
A mere two years on from his surprise return, after an absence of a decade, to the world of recorded music, Boodaman is back already with “The Ninth Planet”. It is another fine addition to the flourishing catalogue of Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin Rhythm Records imprint. “Cosmic” is, for once, the perfect word to describe not […]
Steiner & Madlaina Taking Risks
Out now via Glitterhouse Records is “Risiko”, album number three from Steiner & Madlaina. “Recording these tracks, we’ve had some of the best times together”, they say. And it sounds like it! Having decamped to the rural Normandie region in France to work at Studio Black Box in Noyant la Gravoyere, the twelve tracks were […]
Mara all Lovéd-up
Following on from countless singles and EPs, Genevan hip-pop queen Mara has at last released her long-awaited debut album. Available via Maraina / Sony Music, it is entitled “Lovéland” and contains thirteen new tracks, all displaying Mara’s instantly recognisable blend of high-octane dance beats, deeply rhythmic vocal delivery and a very healthy dose of humour: […]
Grandbrothers Serenade a Cathedral
Out now via City Slang / Irascible is the truly extraordinary new album from Grandbrothers. Entitled “Late Reflections”, it was entirely recorded inside Cologne Cathedral, following on from a concert to celebrate the 700 years anniversary of the Cathedral’s choir in 2022. Grandbrothers are Erol Sarp, a German pianist, and Lukas Vogel, a software designer […]
TOMPAUL Capturing the Polar Lights
Entitled “Aurora”, the latest EP from electronica quartet TOMPAUL was released in early April by Zurich-based Liviana Music. Hailing from the spa town Baden near Zurich and naming Howling, Bob Moses and Kerala Dust as stylistically related artists, TOMPAUL’s line-up is probably unique in the world. Formed by guitarist/vocalist Tom Paul Fischer, the band also […]
Ingrid Lukas in Pursuit of the Melody of her Life
Fresh from Ronin Rhythm Record comes “Elumeloodia”, the new album from Estonian-Swiss pianist and singer Ingrid Lukas. The title, Estonian for „melody of life“, hints at the reasons why we haven’t heard any new music from her for nearly eight years. The answer, in short, is: life itself. First, Lukas’s long-term musical partner Patrik Zosso […]
Blind Boy de Vita Setting Sail
Launched last year in the shape of an EP, Italo-Swiss space-blues maestro Blind Boy De Vita has now completed his new album with the addition of another four tracks. Entitled “Zattera” (Italian for “raft”), it was released on 7 April 2023 via Mouthwatering Records. Born and raised in Southern Italy, Blind Boy de Vita, aka […]
