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 […]
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 […]
