Autumn season, touring season
Quite a few bands supported by Swiss Music Export are at present touring in various European countries. Disco Doom Some years ago, the Zurich-based post-rock band Disco Doom happened to bag themselves a support slot on a gig by the touring American band Built to Spill. The Americans enjoyed their support act so much that […]
Verveine at Iceland Airwaves 4 – 8 November 2015, Reykjavik
Ever since the ascent of Björk and the subsequent flood of innovative music from Iceland, the country’s capital city, Reykjavik, has become a favourite destination for artists and fans alike in search of inspiration. Here, in spectacular surroundings and behind the backs of the traditional centres of the music business, a refuge has been created […]
Switzerland meets MaMA meets Switzerland – 14 – 16 October 2015
Sign up for the Swiss Business Mixer on 15 October 2015! Once again, Swiss Music Export in collaboration with Fondation Suisa will be presenting a Swiss Business Mixer at MaMA Event in Paris. It is, of course, an ideal opportunity for delegates from all over Europe to network with Swiss professionals attending the festival. Reconnect […]
Strong Swiss presence at the Amsterdam Dance Event, 14 – 18 October 2015
There is no bigger or more important – or more entertaining, for that matter – conference/festival in Europe with a focus on all forms of dance music than the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). Started in 1996, ADE now attracts well over 5000 business professionals to a extensive program of daytime panels, keynote speeches, networking sessions […]
Swiss artists at CMJ Music Marathon, New York, 13 – 17 October 2015
CMJ.com is a weekly online music business report which started as the conventional bi-weekly publication College Media Journal in 1978. Their annual festival of new music, the CMJ Music Marathon, is now in its 35th year. The daytime program consists of a vast number of roundtable discussions, workshops, keynote speeches, etc. The evenings offer a […]
New album from Puts Marie
Puts Marie from Biel have been extraordinarily busy since their return from a lengthy sabbatical during which all members pursued their own individual projects. In the two years since the release of their comeback album, “Pornstar”, the group has been touring incessantly. In between the many performances they still managed to record a mini-album, “Masoch”, […]
Arielle Dombasle teaming up with the Hillbilly Moon Explosion for album and gigs
The French-American actress Arielle Dombasle has worked with Eric Rohmer (“Pauline at the Beach”) and Alain Robbe-Grillet (“The Blue Villa”). Now she has teamed up with the Hillbilly Moon Explosion from Zurich to record a splendid album full of 1950s Americana, ranging in style from rockabilly to doo wop, and from classic Country to classic […]
Verveine and Peter Kernel at the Rockomotives Festival, Vendôme 24 – 31 October 2015
Verveine, diva of Gothic electronica, and Peter Kernel are the bands to represent Switzerland at the Rockomotives Festival in Vendôme, France. First held in 1992, Les Rockomotives is a festival devoted mainly to up and coming bands. It takes place across the week in several venues in this small and pretty town in the Loire […]
Seven starring in “Sing meinen Song – das Tauschkonzert”
„Sing meinen Song – das Tauschkonzert“ („Sing my song – the swap concert“) is one of the most successful music television concepts of the last few years. The show involves a number of well-known artists from a wide variety of genres performing songs written by other artists in their own particular style. Helmed by Xavier […]
Swiss Music Export at the Waves Central Europe Festival in Vienna and Bratislava 30 September – 4 October 2015
Now in its fifth year, with its two-pronged concept, the Waves Central Europe Festival in Vienna and Bratislava holds a unique position in the European festival calendar. With one leg of the festival taking place in Austria, the other in Slovakia, Waves is an ideal platform for musicians and business professionals from East and West […]
