Mnevis – A Fresh Course of Events
Ever wondered what a Mnevis is? Well, we’re going to tell you anyway. In Egyptian mythology, Mnevis is the bull-like manifestation of chief God Atum-Ra’s lifeforce, Ka. Mnevis is also a band from Lucerne, and “The Course of Events” is the title of their new album. It was released on 29 January 2021 on Red […]
Boodaman in Overdrive for Subsequent
It took Genevan synth maestro Boodaman – aka Stéphane Caviglioli – ten years to come up with a follow-up album to his debut from 2008. Helped by a Covid-enforced exile at home, “Subsequent”, his third, was completed in a super-fast two years. It is released on 5 February via Threeeknobs Records/Irascible. Boodaman describes himself as […]
Eurosonic Goes Digital – 13 – 16 January 2021 – Groningen, Netherlands
It is the beginning of a new year, and with it, nearly time for one of everyone’s most favourite festivals – the Eurosonic in the lovely Dutch City of Groningen. Alas, as we all know, the past twelve months haven’t quite turned out the way we would have liked it. Indeed, ESNS 2020 was one […]
European Music Week – 8 – 15 January 2021
Do you remember last year’s must-have Groningen-fashion accessory, the pink “A Taste of Swiss Music” cap? Of course, you do! It was everywhere. You will also remember the totally out-of-control Swiss Music Export party, the seriously moreish raclette orgy and the massively competitive Gouda vs Gruyère contest. Seven of the acts that were part of […]
Grandbrothers Promise “All the Unknown”
It is a big promise, and Grandbrothers fully intend to keep it. “All the Unkown” is the title of the experimental piano/electronica duo’s new album, their third. It is released on 15 January 2021 by City Slang. Having previously set themselves the rule that all their sounds would be created in the moment, they have […]
Perseverance Pays off for Peter Kernel
They’re the self-proclaimed “best band in the world called Peter Kernel”, and they’ve been going for fifteen years. Quite rightly, the brains behind this much-loved maverick operation, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti, have decided that this is an event worth celebrating. They will do so with an album appropriately entitled “Perseverance: 15 Years of Peter […]
Long Tall Jefferson with His Head in the Clouds
“Cloud Folk” is the intriguing title of Long Tall Jefferson’s new album, his third. It was released on 20 November via Red Brick Chapel Records. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, they say. Well, LTJ aka Simon Borer has gone and done just that! After two albums of quietly ruminative songs cast in a […]
Michal Turtle Reinterpreted
An artist long operating on the fringes of the avant-garde world, the Basel-based, British-born lo-fi electronica experimenter Michal Turtle is at last receiving some long overdue “mainstream” recognition. Back in June we announced in this space the release of his latest record, a 12” entitled “On a Canvas Lived a Baby”. Now follows a very […]
Brandão, Faber and Hunger Love You All!
Lockdown summer wasn’t all bad. “Ich liebe Dich” – an album shared by the percussionist Dino Brandão, and singer/songwriters Sophie Hunger and Faber – is one of the many unforeseen and unplanned projects that came to fruition purely because of it. “Ich liebe Dich” is released on 11 December 2020 by Two Gentlemen Records. Percussionist […]
Die Aeronauten Say Goodbye with Nine Extra Lives
The wave of grief that went through the whole of the Swiss music scene when Olifr Maurmann aka Guz died after a long illness in February was extraordinary. With the posthumously completed album “Neun Extraleben”, the remaining members of his band, Die Aeronauten, have delivered a truly wonderful epitaph to a great musician and friend. […]
