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), […]
Klaus Johann Grobe touring Germany
Word about the confusingly named Klaus Johann Grobe – a duo consisting of Sevi Landolt (organ/synth/vocals) and Daniel Bachmann (drums/vocals) – has quickly spread since the release last summer of their strikingly original debut album „Im Sinne der Zeit“ on Chicago-based Trouble in Mind Records. Already featured in Pitchfork and fresh off a UK tour […]
Hell’s Kitchen touring France and the Netherlands
Formed around the turn of the century in Geneva, the trio of Bernard Monney (guitar, vocals), Christophe Ryser (double bass) and Cédric Taillefert, according to their Facebook page, use „rural roots, urban rock and tribal trance“ as the main ingredients of a new kind of blues. Driven by a similar spirit as fellow Genevans Mama Rosin, […]
Duck Duck Grey Duck album and tour
They’re yet another trio from Geneva, and they’ve definitely been touched by the spirit of the early Beefheart (with a friendly nod from Quicksilver Messenger Service). Formed not so long ago by Nelson Schaer (Trionyx, Erika Stucky, ‘NK), Robin Girod (Mama Rosin) and Pierre-Henri Beyrière, the band’s reputation as a fiery live act has quickly […]
Peter Kernel ready for the next step
“Hello,” wrote Peter Kernel – aka Aris and Barbara – in an e-mail last June: “Throughout the past three years we sweated over 240 concerts across Europe and Canada, we fooled around with our new project Camilla Sparksss and we spent our free time locked up in the basement working on new ideas. On June […]
„Death of a Cheerleader“ release tape!
„Dancing Around the Fire of Volcano“, the debut album of dark(ish) indie five-piece Death of a Cheerleader, was released last April on boring old CD and Download, followed by Vinyl in August via the Snowhite label in Germany (distributed by Rough Trade in the GAS countries). Now, however, comes the real coup: a cassette tape […]
From Kid release debut album
Their first electronica-pop single „Sun„ was light and fluffy like a single white cloud in a blue sky, and it travelled around the world – even catching the ear of the Detnator-DJ-crew in Trinidad and Tobago who made a steel drum-flavoured Caribbean remix of it. Andrin Berchtold and Gian Reto Camenisch, the singing songwriters, guitarists […]
Eurosonic Festival, Groningen – 14 – 17 January 2015
The new year begins with a bang and another great festival, the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, now in its 29th edition. Swiss Music Export will be strongly represented this year, showcasing no fewer than five acts: Hell’s Kitchen Klaus Johann Grobe Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Puts Marie Yokko More information in next month’s newsletter. […]
