Klischée with a swing
Electro swing combines the brassy swagger of 1930s and 1940s big band swing with elements of present day electronic music making, including hip hop, house and techno beats. Klischée were formed by Kilian who used to play saxophone in a big band, and Domi, a jazz pianist. Also including a DJ, a rapper and a […]
Ticino on the move – Dreamshade, Rocky Wood & Those Furious Flames on tour
The Italian part of Switzerland, the Ticino, has produced a remarkable number of fine young bands in recent years. Three of these – Dreamshade, Rocky Wood and Those Furious Flames – are on tour throughout March and April. *** Dreamshade — According to their Facebook page, Dreamshade from Lugano are a “modern melodic metal” band. […]
Cortez touring Europe
Geneva-based Cortez will need no introduction amongst connoisseurs of seriously heavy, out-there, post-hardcore metal. After a brief absence, the band returned last year with a revamped line-up and a new album, “Phoebus”. Guitarist Samuel Vaney retired from the stage to concentrate on song writing and acting as the band’s live mixer. His role on stage […]
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on UK/Ireland tour
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp’s third album, “Rotorotor”, was unquestionably one of the most exciting and original albums made in Switzerland last year. This is what the highly respected UK monthly magazine fRoots (“The Essential Folk, Roots & World Music Guide”) had to say about it: “We are in the land of the desirably unclassifiable. […]
Larytta with worldwide album release
Formed in 2004 in Lausanne, the mysteriously-named Larytta play synth-pop with a hint of Phoenix, a dash of Kraftwerk, a few bleeps of Hot Chip and “Popcorn”, plus a hefty dose of their own secret mixture of spices from North Africa, the Middle East and dodgy 1960s film soundtracks. In order to make their live […]
Kejnu tour of Germany to coincide with album release
30 January saw the release in Germany of Kejnu’s impressive double CD album “Centillion”. It came out in Switzerland last year, garnering uniformly excellent reviews. Formed in the Eastern part of Switzerland around vocalist and guitarist Nuél Schoch who is also an artist and graphic designer, the four-piece also consists of Alessandro Giannelli (drums), Ramon […]
Kruger bidding adieu with last tour
After thirteen years at the forefront of the European post-Hüsker Dü hardcore scene, Lausanne-based five-piece Kruger are calling it a day. With their day jobs and their growing families, time became too tight to do justice to the band, says their singer Renaud, adding: “We want to end it with a good feeling and no […]
Open Season album release and tour
Open Season are an eight-piece good-time pop reggae band from Berne. This is what they have to say themselves about the album “Boombay”, their eigth, which was released by Irascible in Switzerland last November: “This is excessive Caribbean-Indian bass music, produced with lots of pumping bass by Arschtritt Lindgren from Stuttgart/Berlin. The songs are about […]
Five Swiss bands at the Eurosonic Festival, Groningen 14 – 17 January 2015
Forget skiing, skating and curling – the only place to be in the middle of January for anyone even vaguely interested in the latest musical trends in Europe is Groningen in the North of Holland. From its humble beginnings in 1986 as the site of a “battle of the bands” between Dutch and Belgian groups, […]
The revived Puts Marie raring to go
Towards the end of the last decade, Puts Marie from Biel decided on a temporary split in order to allow the individual members to follow their creative instincts outside the confines of the group for a while. Such was the success of these projects that when Max Usata (vocals), Nick Porsche (drums), Igor Stepniewski (bass), […]
