SoundTrack_Zurich, 4 – 6 October 2024
Astonishingly, given the symbiotic relationship, the worlds of moving image and music production are all too often oblivious of each other’s modus operandi. SoundTrack_Zurich aims to remedy this situation. Running parallel to, though independently from, the Zurich Film Festival from 4-6 October, the event offers a packed itinerary of music-related film showings, discussions, workshops, case […]
Switzerland @ Reeperbahn Festival 2024
Summer is ending, we hear you complain. But, hey, cheer up – it’s good news! September, as we all know, is Reeperbahn Festival-month, and Swiss Music Export’s preparations for this year’s trip to Hamburg are already well advanced, with venues, times and live acts all decided and ready to go into your diaries. Once again, […]
Swiss Music Export Is Looking For New Board Members
The association Swiss Music Export is adapting its structures and renewing its board. As of 1 January 2025, we are looking for competent and motivated people who are willing to become involved in the SME Board. The Board is the strategic supervisory body of SME without operational tasks and oversees the management. —–deutsch (français voir […]
Florencia Yunis Exploring Versions of Love
Out now via FarMore Records, home of Loco Escrito, is Florencia Yunis’s debut EP, “versiones de amor”. The five tracks don’t only document five very different aspects of life and love, they also document the 22-year old’s impressive versatility as a singer and songwriter. Drawing on her family’s Argentinian roots, her chosen style is a […]
WE ARE AVA Searching For Their Roots
Following on from their debut album “Inner Gardening” three years ago, electro-pop trio WE ARE AVA are staying with the horticultural theme for their follow up. Entitled “Radix”, it is available now on muve Recordings. Just in case our readers aren’t up with allotment vocabulary: “radix” – according to WE ARE AVA’s press release – is […]
Olympic Antigua Shedding their „Heavy Heart“
Fresh from the presses via comes Two Gentlemen’s Olympic Antigua’s new EP, “Heavy Heart”, featuring their latest single, “Get Rid of the Sting”. Bringing together four veterans from four well-known bands rooted in the Lake Geneva/Valais scene, the Olympics boast no fewer than three excellent singers, all clearly soaked from birth in classic Motown- and […]
Label Suisse, 13-15 September 2024, Lausanne Switzerland
Launched in 2004 by RTS, the French-Swiss branch of the national public service radio station, the Label Suisse festival aims to represent Swiss music in all its abundant stylistic and linguistic glory. In co-operation with the Swiss Ministry of Culture, the festival is also designed to create networking opportunities for Swiss music business professionals with […]
Switzerland @ Waves Vienna, 5-7 September 2024, Vienna Austria
Launched in 2011, Waves Vienna thrives on the inimitable charm of Vienna itself and its unique position as a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe. With the Balkans as well as the countries along the Adriatic coast hosting more and more festivals attracting international line-ups as well as crowds, an event linking up these no […]
Benjamin Amaru Dreaming Forever
Rarely has a debut album from a Swiss artist been more hotly anticipated than that of Zurich-based singer/songwriter Benjamin Amaru. Having independently released no fewer than 80 singles over the past six years, he amassed 30 million streams in 2023 alone. Entitled “i always remember all of my dreams”, the album is available now via […]
Julia Alexa Delivers Bandaids
Out now is “bandaids”, a new EP from 23-year-old Zurich-based singer/songwriter, producer and you-tuber Julia Alexa. Containing no fewer than ten songs, it practically qualifies as the follow up to her debut album “I Want to Live Forever When I Die”, released as recently as November 2023. Having started to take piano lessons aged seven, […]
