Velvet Two Stripes Banishing Any Bad Spells
Out now on Phonag Records is “No Spell For Moving Water”, the new album of Velvet Two Stripes. Velvet Two Stripes make no bones about it: they like their rock hard, straight and irresistible. The title of their new album, “No Spell For Moving Water”, makes their attitude clear. Together for fifteen years, sisters Sophie Diggelmann (vox, […]
La Nefera Says: This Is It!
This is it, indeed: the Dominican-Swiss rapper’s debut album. Entitled “C’est ça”, it was released at the end of October by the German label, Black Forest Voodoo. Featuring the unlikely line-up of a French sousaphone player, an Argentinian guitarist and a Swiss drummer, Basel-raised and -based Jennifer Perez has forged a massively powerful musical melange […]
Yilian Cañizares Celebrating Habana-Bahia
Out now via Absilone is “Habana-Bahia”, a new album from Cuban-born Swiss-based singer and violinist Yilian Cañizares. Born in Havana, Cañizares studied classical violin there before moving to Venezuela to pursue further studies. Three years later, she arrived in Switzerland to complete her musical education at the Fribourg Conservatoire where she also discovered an interest […]
Peter Kernel Drumming Up a Storm
The “best band in the world called Peter Kernel” (according to themselves, at least) have come up with a very special and original concept for their latest album. Entitled “Drum to Death”, it is available now on On the Camper/Modulor Records. Nearly twenty years and 800+ concerts into their career, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti […]
Dirty Sound Magnet Keep on Dreaming…
They might live in a dystopic world but this won’t prevent Dirty Sound Magnet from dreaming! This much they promise with their new album, “Dreaming in Dystopia”. The follow up to their most successful LP to date, “DSM-III” (2022, Hummus Records), “Dreaming in Dystopia” is available now via the Melbourne-based indie label Wild Thing Records. […]
Dennis Kiss Finds Inspiration in Norddeich Mole
6 October 2023 saw the release of Dennis Kiss’s solo debut album. “Norddeich Mole” is out now on Young and Aspiring. Nurtured by the lively music scene of Baden, a small town near Zurich, Dennis Kiss enjoyed some success with the indie band Dennis Kiss & The Sleepers and their singles “Cecilia” and “Gin Tonic”. […]
A Declaration of Peace from Sirens of Lesbos
Out now via SOL/The Orchard is «Peace», the second album from the music/art collective Sirens of Lesbos. Featuring guests like Bootsy Collins, Erick the Architect and Treasure Bloom, it offers a thrillingly kaleidoscopic blend of styles with echoes from places as diverse as Outkast and Lee Perry, Sister Sledge, George Clinton or The Beloved. The […]
Cori Nora Explores Flowers and Fences
Out now via Irascible Records is «Flowers and Fences», the debut album from singer/synth and bass player Cori Nora. The style of her calm and subtle music is as difficult to describe as you’d expect from the multi-faceted interests of the players – all vocalists in their own right – who make up her band. […]
Alina Amuri Finds the Way Back To You
Entitled «Back to You», the Congolese/Swiss singer/songwriter Alina Amuri’s new album, her third, was released in mid-September via Pop-Up Records. Loosely conceived as a concept album, «Back to You» is a deeply personal record of Amuri’s recent, first return to her birthplace, Kinshasa. Born in the DR Congo and raised in Switzerland, Amuri may be […]
Rorcal Celebrating the Silence of Very Loud Noise
15 September 2023 saw the release on Hummus Records of the sixth album from much-travelled extreme metallists Rorcal. Entitled «Silence», it is quite possibly the loudest and most intense record ever to grace a record deck. Encyclopaedia Metallum describes their style as “Sludge/Doom Metal/Post-Hardcore” and the themes of their lyrics as “the apocalypse (early); tragedy, […]
