Lotrify battling it out at Wacken Openair, Germany, 2 – 4 August 2018
Attracting around 80’000 fans each year, the Wacken Openair near Hamburg is probably the biggest metalhead fest in the world. Starting small in 1990 with six German bands, this year’s edition boasts no fewer than 180 live acts spread across three days, including the likes of Red Hot Chili Pepper, Judas Priest and Helloween. An […]
SME @ Paléo Festival, Nyon – 17 – 22 July 2018
Incredibly, it’s the Paléo Festival’s 43rd edition this year! Such longevity wouldn’t have been possible if this wasn’t such a special event indeed. It begins with the location, the gorgeous green fields near the North banks of Lake Geneva. And it continues with a music programme that is amongst the most diverse, colourful and thus […]
Zeal & Ardor’s “Stranger Fruit”
8 June sees the eagerly awaited release of Zeal & Ardor’s new album. Entitled “Stranger Fruit”, it’s their second and marks a considerable step forward for the Basel-based multi-instrumentalist Manuel Gagneux. If the much-praised debut “Devil is Fine” showed an artist in the process of discovering a new voice, on “Stranger Fruit” Gagneux is now […]
H E X deliver debut at last
It’s taken them a long time – four years, to be precise – but Geneva-based H E X have made it. The self-titled debut album saw the light of day on 25 May. It was released on Hummus Records, Distribution is via Orchard/Sony (US), Plastic Head (UK/EU) and Membran (GSA). H E X are the brainchild of much-travelled guitarist Vincent Hänggi who formed […]
The Gardener & The Tree grow new album
Big choruses, big feelings – and one massive big voice, that, in a nutshell, is The Gardener & The Tree. They release their debut album on 8 June via Island Records/Universal (GSA). The title – “69591, LAXÅ” – is a reference to the place and the experience four years ago when the band found its […]
Wolfman on the prowl
11 May saw the release of Wolfman’s “Mark My World (Remix EP)”. It contains a collection of remixes of the lead track from their second EP “Mark My World” by Rearte (Miteinander-Collective), Bigeneric (Marco Repetto/Grauzone), Marlon (Hans-Jakop Mühlethaler/Lapcat), Tillman & de Adi (Jakobskapelle-Collective), and Alessandro Gianelli (Egopusher). Wolfman are Angelo Repetto (guitar, electronica, vocals) and Katerina […]
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 […]
