Feldermelder Launches Future Holographic Suns
26 November 2020 saw the release of Feldermelder’s psychedelically titled new album “For Future Holographic Suns” on cassette as well as digitally via Berlin-based Kinship Records. Using instruments and FX emerging from the sixties, Feldermelder – in his own words – “forms a storytelling as an Ursprache of ear speech, that hovers over horizons of […]
Lucia Cadotsch with More “Low Speak”
Four years after her first volume of “Speak Low”, also the first album Lucia Cadotsch released under her own name, she follows it up with a second volume, “Speak Low 2”. Once again bringing together vocalist Cadotsch with two Swedish improvisers, tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjö and upright bassist Petter Eldh, “Speak Low 2” was released […]
Max Apollo Seizes the “Power”
Max Apollo announced his arrival two years ago with an impressive debut album carrying the entirely misleading title, “In Absolute Silence”. Still only 24 years old, he now follows this up with “Power”, a five-track EP that amply demonstrates his knack for capturing a catchy melody and welding it on to a powerful rock groove. […]
Brandnew Equality Platform for Swiss Music
Women as well as non-binary, trans and inter people have long been marginalised in the Swiss music world. Launched by the self-help organisation Helvetiarockt, a new internet platform and data base, musicdirectory.ch, is designed to fill this gap. Helvetiarockt was formed in 2009 specifically to further the cause of women in the Swiss music business. […]
Call of the Sirens
“Most appealing”, thought BBC Radio 6 DJ, the revered Don Letts. His colleague, Tom Ravenscroft, was an early supporter. Another colleague, Lauren Laverne, soon followed suit: “Wetting my appetite, wanna know more about them”, she said, introducing the track “Waltz”. “Led by the angelic harmonies of sisters Jasmina and Nabyla Serag”, wrote UK music mag […]
Zeal & Ardor Call for Action
“Wake of a Nation” is the title of a new EP from the Gospel/Metal outfit Zeal & Ardor. It was rush-released on 23 October 2020 as a comment on the disturbing rise in racist attacks and related incidents in the United States and Europe. “If I were to berate you and say you’re wrong for […]
Louis Jucker Does Something Right
“Something Went Wrong” is the rather misleading title of singer/songwriter and self-proclaimed “punk-activist” Louis Jucker’s latest album. It was released on 30 October on Hummus Records, a label founded by Jucker himself with the purpose of supporting like-minded artists and friends, in, around and way beyond his hometown, the small watch-making city of La-Chaux-de-Fonds on […]
Nadja Zela Recovers Her Voice
Four years ago, in her grief after the sudden death of her husband, Nadja Zela was no longer able to sing. Struggling to recover some sort of equilibrium, she sought solace in music, more specifically, music of all kinds that dealt with death and grieving. After two difficult years, the urge and ability to sing […]
Kacimi Switches on the “Gyrophare”
The new album from Genevan pop activist Kacimi, “Gyrophare”, was released on 30 October 2020 via Echo Orange/Chante et tais-toi/Le Pop Club Records. It is an album title for our times: a gyrophare is the rotating or flashing light on an emergency vehicle. In contrast to the urgency of the title, however, Kacimi approaches his […]
