SME @ Bad Bonn Kilbi Düdingen 31 May – 2 June 2018
Anyone who has ever been to Bad Bonn in Düdingen will never forget the place. Driving through the soft green hills in rural canton Fribourg, it is easy to think that you’re lost. It seems utterly impossible that a music venue serving up avant-garde indie sounds might have landed UFO-like in such idyllic surroundings. But […]
Printemps de Bourges, France – 24 – 29 April 2018 – this time with added Swissness
Spring’s in the air, and so is Printemps de Bourges, the bijou festival in the centre of France designed to celebrate and support all forms of Francophone song writing. And this time round, the event is even more special to us at Swiss Music Export than usual. This is because Switzerland is the festival’s featured […]
SME @ Electron 2018 19 – 21 April, 26 – 29 April 2018 various venues Geneva, Switzerland
After fifteen years, the Electron Festival in Geneva is rightly regarded as one of the most important gatherings of the European electronica world to discover talented new artists and DJs, and to observe new trends and tendencies. Once again, Swiss Music Export is involved in this important event and professional activities are concentrated on Saturday […]
New improved Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp becoming even more surrealistic and powerful!
Incredibly, for their third album, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp have become even madder, badder and – most importantly – more exciting. Bass players, it is sometimes said, are crazier than drummers. Bassist Vincent Bertholet certainly is. He formed the Duchamps in 2006 in the image of his own thrilling self. A band that wouldn’t […]
Pyrit takes “Control”
Pyrit is the name Thomas Kuratli has given to his on-going “cosmic desert music” adventure. Swiss artist Pyrit is now residing in Paris, plays guitar and cymbals with an occasional dash of electronica. “Control” is his second album. It was released on Paris-based Bookmaker Records on 6 April. Distribution is via Modulor Music (France), Irascible […]
Panda Lux visit the “Zoo”
Panda Lux from the East of Switzerland follow up their acclaimed debut album “Versailles” with a new EP, “Zoo”. Released on 30 March, the five-track mini-album finds the band in reflective mood. Panda Lux formed when all four of them were still teenage schoolboys. In the ten years since, they have undergone various stylistic mutations, […]
Sunny vibes from Wintershome
“Around You I Found You”, that is the pleasingly circular-sounding title of the debut album of Wintershome, a six-piece hailing from the famous winter resort Zermatt in the shadow of the Matterhorn at the heart of Switzerland. It is released on 6 April in Switzerland via Irascible and on 27 April in Germany via Rough Trade. […]
Annakin explores “The End of Eternity”
27 April sees the release of Annakin’s new album, “The End of Eternity”. It will be available physically in Switzerland via Akin Records/Phonag, and worldwide, digitally. The album was once again produced by Dimitri Tikovoi (The Horrors, Charli XCX, Marianne Faithful, etc.) in his London studio. After the dramatic wide-screen sound of her last album, […]
Magic minimalism with Sonar and David Torn
Few Swiss bands have travelled more widely and to more critical acclaim in the last couple of years than Sonar, Zurich-based purveyors of intense, minimalist guitar grooves. The band is led by Stephan Thelen – an early participant of one of Robert Fripp’s guitar workshops – and fellow guitarist Bernhard Wagner who for several years […]
Swiss Music Export special guest at Printemps de Bourges! 24 – 29 April 2018, Bourges France
This year, Switzerland is a special guest at the bijou Printemps de Bourges festival in the heart of France! On Friday, 27 April, SME will present three acts on the Swiss Stage on the Grande Scène Séraucourt. Xtrm Tour – 18:45 Orchestre Tout Puissant Marchel Duchamp XXL – 20:00 Kadebostany – 21:15 Already official is the appearance of Flèche […]
