Bitch Queens spreading L.O.V.E.
“Twelve songs…that just by hearing them make you raise your middle finger against the mediocrity in rock music”, said UK Metal Hammer about Bitch Queens’ last album. They might as well write the same thing about the Basel quartet’s latest opus, “L.O.V.E.”. Formed in 2008, the band are steeped in the resolutely non-PC and yet […]
Egopusher and Klischée at Remmi Demmi Festival Berlin 29 April 2017
Staged for the second time this year, the Remmi Demmi indoor festival is based on the concept of “one evening, one ticket, and six extraordinary international bands – all in the heart of Berlin”. Two of the six bands scheduled for the 2017 event are from Switzerland: Egopusher and Klischée. Having moved away from their […]
Printemps De Bourges and Les Inouïs de Bourges with Sandor 18 – 23 April 2017
First staged in 1977, the Printemps de Bourges Crédit Mutuel festival regularly attracts around 200’000 music fans and 600 business professionals from all over the world to this pretty cathedral city in the French heartland. Apart from the conventional programme of live music, Printemps De Bourges also incorporates Les Inouïs de Bourges, a kind of festival-within-a-festival […]
Swiss Music Export at Electron Festival 13 – 16 April 2017
Now in its fourteenth year, the Electron festival in Geneva has been firmly established at the centre of the European electronica world as a place to discover talented new artists and DJs, and to observe new trends and tendencies. Having proved highly popular in the past, Swiss Music Export is once again organising two “matchmaking” […]
The Great Escape Launch Party 27 April 2017, London
With Switzerland a featured country at this year’s edition of The Great Escape Festival in Brighton, we are pleased to announce that Swiss Music Export will also be present at the official TGE Launch Party in London on 27 April 2017, 18:00-20:00 at KAMIO in Shoreditch. Apart from free refreshments, guests will also be served […]
New Odd Beholder EP
After the success of their debut EP “Lighting”, dream pop duo Odd Beholder release their follow-up “Atlas”, another EP, on 13 April 2017. The group is signed to Sinnbus for the world and Mouthwatering Records for Switzerland. Odd Beholder are James Varghese and Daniela Weinmann. Theirs is a gauze-like wash of minimalist and atmospheric electronic […]
Brandnew Hathors LP
“Panem et Circenses” is the title of noise rock trio Hathors’ third album, released on 7 April via Noisolution Records in Berlin. The much-travelled Winterthur- and Berlin-based band is supporting the release with an extensive tour of Germany and Switzerland throughout April and May. Having recently welcomed a new drummer to their ranks, Raphael Peter, […]
Avant Pop Duo JPTR Release Album Debut
Throughout the year 2016, Zurich-based art/music duo/trio JPTR released a single each month on the day of the full moon. Proposing a “return to a challenging, art inflected type of pop”, a more complete vision of JPTR’s world view will become available with the release of their debut album on 7 April. JPTR consist of […]
SME at m4music – Lausanne & Zurich – 30.03. – 01.04.2017
It’s spring time again, time for Swiss Music Export’s very own home conference/festival, m4music. This year’s edition is launched on Thursday 30 March in Lausanne before moving on to Zurich’s Schiffbau hall for Friday’s and Saturday’s programme. Once again, Swiss Music Export has lined up a series of exciting events, all of which are ideal […]
Exploring the Francophone music scene with Voix de Fète Genève 20 – 26 March 2017, Geneva
Now in its 19th year, the Voix de Fête conference/festival is a celebration of music-making in the Francophone world. With its policy that 40% of the live acts should be up-and-coming artists from Switzerland, it is also designed to create a platform for home-grown talents to present their work to a large number of visiting […]
