Xtrm Tour takes in Europavox Clermont-Ferrand, 28 June- 1 July 2018
Founded in 2006, Europavox is a pan-European festival dedicated to the promotion of European cultural diversity. It consists of seven individual “legs” spread across the year as well as the continent, with stop-overs in Athens, Brussels, Zagreb, Clermont-Ferrand, Vilnius, Vienna, and Bologna. Fresh from their appearance at the Great Escape in Brighton, Geneva’s fast rising […]
B-Sides Festival, 14 – 16 June 2018, Kriens
Another great festival in a fabulous location, the B-Sides Festival near Lucerne serves up both a grand mountain-and-lake scenery and an eclectic programme of adventurous music from Switzerland, the rest of Europe, Africa, and beyond. Of the Swiss contingent, the likes of Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp XXL, Sissy Fox, Reverend Beat-Man or J & […]
Aisha Devi delivers new album
11 May sees the release of Aisha Devi’s second album, “DNA Feelings”, on the London-based Houndstooth label, founded by the legendary Fabric Club. Nomen est omen in the case of Aisha Devi, the Geneva-born electronica experimenter and classically trained soprano with family roots in Nepal. Starting off with a fairly conventional brand of dancey electronica […]
Evelinn Trouble feeling hopeful
Evelinn Trouble rarely does the same thing twice. Thus, her brand new EP, “Hope Music”, released on 4 May via Radicalis, marks another unexpected and intriguing twist in this Zurich-born and raised singer/songwriter’s career. Making a conscious effort to counter the pessimism of contemporary urban life, she has excised all traces of irony and cynicism […]
Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN return leaner and fitter
4 May sees the release of a new album from Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN. Entitled “Awase”, it was produced in the South of France by Manfred Eicher and is released on Eicher’s ECM Records label. Nik Bärtsch’s “zen-funk” outfit Ronin is one of the most original and also most successful Swiss music exports of the last […]
More crazed blues trash from Reverend Beat-Man
How does he do it! Reverend Beat-Man – Fifty-one years of age, and hardly a day saner than when he was a teenage punk rocker with a band called the Monsters. Just in time for a massive European tour that takes in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the UK comes the release on 20 […]
Chasing Traces with Alina Amuri
18 May sees the release of soul singer/songwriter Alina Amuri’s second album “Chasing Traces” on Columbia/Sony Music. Recorded in Hamburg, Zurich and Berlin, the album is a collaboration between Amuri and the Hamburg-based AmberYard production team as well as the songwriter, Walter Esposito. Born in Congo, Alina Amuri arrived in Switzerland at the age of […]
Delilahs are “Ideal”!
The long-serving Pop-Punksters Delilahs are ready to deliver their fourth album “Ideal” on 4 May via Irascible. Formed in 2003 by school pals Isabella Eder and Muriel Rhyner in Zug, the all-female trio with their fresh and catchy post-punk guitar sound seemed perfect for the Zeitgeist. Problems with a dubious management company derailed their progress, […]
A new “Machine” from 69 Chambers
69 Chambers, the heavy rock trio fronted by multi-instrumentalist and singer Nina Vetterli-Treml, release their third album “Machine” on 31 May on the German specialist label Massacre. The band is a “supergroup” of sorts. It also contains guitarist Tommy Vetterli and drummer Diego Rapacchietti, both of whom are also members of the seminal thrash metal […]
Swiss Music Export @ The Great Escape, Brighton – 17 – 19 May
It’s that time of the year again – Brighton time, beach time, and time for The Great Escape. We’re pretty confident that you won’t need to be reminded that this festival is probably the most important yearly get-together for the independent music scene in Europe. Swiss Music Export will be going, too, and we’re bringing […]
