New album from Reto Burrell „Lucky Charm“
Blue Rose Records/Soulfood Music will be releasing singer/songwriter Reto Burrell’s seventh full-length album “Lucky Charm” on 28th March 2014. Burrell, though Swiss, and at present resident in Switzerland, spent some of his formative years in the United States which, perhaps, explains his affinity to a style of music that is generally termed “Americana”. With “Lucky […]
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill play “William S. Burroughs IN DUB”
The reliably idiosyncratic Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s latest album serves up another mighty surprise. Their seventh album “William S. Burroughs IN DUB” celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of William S. Burroughs with a “heavy ambient masterpiece in 15 chapters”. The band were supported and assisted in their creative quest by the William […]
FROM KID’s Caribbean Carnival
From Kid is the nom de plume of singer/songwriters, guitarists and keyboarders Andrin Berchtold and Gian Reto Camenisch. Having embarked on their song writing partnership a year ago, they live and work in an old farm house on the edge of Chur in the mountainous Eastern Swiss canton of Grisons. In August 2013 they released […]
MaMA Event Paris online artists submission open now
A gateway to the French music market, MaMA offers the opportunity to around 100 up and coming artists at a ratio of 50% French, 50% international, to play for an international audience of music professionals, media and – with half of the venues’ capacity reserved for the public – Parisian music fans. This year’s MaMA […]
We Invented Paris release “Rocket Spaceship Thing”
February 14th sees the release of the sophomore album by music/arts collective We Invented Paris. Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, the band was able to spend three intensely creative months recording the album in the idyllic and inspirational surroundings of a real, old-fashioned castle, Schloss Röhrsdorf near Dresden in the East of Germany. We […]
Anna Aaron releases 2nd album “NEURO”
Anna Aaron’s second album “NEURO” will be released by Two Gentlemen (distribution: Irascible) on 28 February. Even the title of her very first EP, “I’ll Dry Your Tears Little Murderer”, marked pianist Anna Aaron out as a talent with a singular vision in today’s overcrowded pool of singing songwriters. She followed this up two years […]
Brand new album “Numerals” from Disco Doom
Zurich-based quartet Disco Doom’s fifth full album “Numerals” was released on 7 February on Defer Records (EU/Switzerland), and on 11 February on Exploding in Sound Records (USA/Canada). The album is available as a digital download and on vinyl. Disco Doom are one of longest-serving, most popular and also internationally most successful guitar-driven bands from Switzerland. […]
Disagony release their debut album, “Venom Dish”
After having been available in Switzerland since last November, “Venom Dish”, the debut album of Geneva-based guitar/bass/drums trio Disagony, will receive an European release on the German Snowhite label via Rough Trade. Driven by the high-octane rhythm section of Raphael Despas (bass) and Alexandre Davoine (drums), the focal point of the band, singer Lynn Maring, […]
With Swiss Music Export to European showcase festivals
With Swiss Music Export to European showcase festivals Swiss Music Export can offer special rates for Swiss Delegates for the following showcase festivals: – Berlin Music Week, Berlin: 03.-07.09.2014 (http://www.berlin-music-week.de) – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg: 17.-20.09.2014 (http://www.reeperbahnfestival.com) – Waves Vienna, Vienna: 02.-05.10.2014 (http://www.wavesvienna.com) – MaMA Event, Paris: 15.-17.10.2014 (http://www.mama-event.com) In case of interest, please contact us: […]
Swiss Music Export @ Eurosonic Festival, Groningen
Swiss Music Export @ Eurosonic Festival, Groningen, Holland 15 – 18 January 2014 When it was started in 1986, the Eurosonic Festival was an almost purely Dutch and Belgian affair. Since then it has grown to be one of the most important shop windows for the promotion of music from all over Europe. Last year, […]
