Evelinn Trouble Marking Her Seasons
Entitled “Season Indicators”, Evelinn Trouble’s sixth full-length album is out now on Mouthwatering Records. One of the most courageous and innovative artists in Switzerland, Trouble has once again found a new way of approaching the process of writing and recording songs. Having taken six years to complete her previous album, this time round she decided […]
Switzerland at c/o pop 2022 – Cologne, Germany
We missed it too much – after an absence of several years, Swiss Music Export returns to the c/o pop Convention in Cologne! c/o pop is very much about the future. Whilst the festival’s live music focus is firmly set on the discovery of new and newish acts, the conference, too, aims to give a […]
Eurosonic – 19 – 22 January 2022 – Groningen, NL
Eurosonic 2022 goes digital once again. Everything had been in place for a return to the real, analogue live version of our beloved ESNS in Groningen. SME had been hugely looking forward to the trip. Annie Taylor, Dino Brandão, Evelinn Trouble, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Kety Fusco, Mehmet Aslan and our shooting star of 2021, Priya Ragu, were […]
Evelinn Trouble’s Extended “A Blue December Calendar”
Fresh from the release of her fantastic new album, “Longing Fever” (Mouthwatering Records), Evelinn Trouble has returned to something that could almost be called a tradition by now – the musical A Blue December Calendar. Launched in 2018, like a conventional Christmas calendar, it starts on 1 December and ends on Christmas eve, theoretically, with […]
Evelinn in a Fever
“Longing Fever” is the intriguing title of Evelinn Trouble’s fifth album – her first in six years. It comes to us via Mouthwatering Records/Broken Silence and was released on 22 October 2021. A “pop album”, Evelinn calls it. Well, “Longing Fever” is certainly more easily accessible than some of this restlessly innovative artist’s previous work. […]
Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, 19 – 22 September 2018
It’s been a hot summer, and for anyone going to the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, it’ll be a hot autumn, too. As we all know, the Reeperbahn Festival is THE place that anyone who is anything on the cutting edge of European music will not want to miss. And once again, Swiss Music Export will […]
Swiss Music Prize 2018 Award Ceremony
The highlight of the Label Suisse festival is the award ceremony for the Swiss Music Prize 2018 by the Federal Office of Culture. Chosen by a jury consisting of seven musicians, critics and promoters, this year’s main award of sFr. 100’000.- goes to the truly legendary Irène Schweizer. Strongly influenced by the Blue Notes, a […]
B-Sides Festival, 14 – 16 June 2018, Kriens
Another great festival in a fabulous location, the B-Sides Festival near Lucerne serves up both a grand mountain-and-lake scenery and an eclectic programme of adventurous music from Switzerland, the rest of Europe, Africa, and beyond. Of the Swiss contingent, the likes of Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp XXL, Sissy Fox, Reverend Beat-Man or J & […]
Evelinn Trouble feeling hopeful
Evelinn Trouble rarely does the same thing twice. Thus, her brand new EP, “Hope Music”, released on 4 May via Radicalis, marks another unexpected and intriguing twist in this Zurich-born and raised singer/songwriter’s career. Making a conscious effort to counter the pessimism of contemporary urban life, she has excised all traces of irony and cynicism […]
Swiss Vibes mini festival in Paris – Centre culturel suisse 2 – 4 June 2015
Swiss Vibes has established itself over the past five years as a popular platform amongst music fans as well as artists and professionals to promote Swiss music. Supported by Pro Helvetia and Swiss Music Export, and in collaboration with the magazine Vibrations, Swiss Vibes has released three compilation albums featuring the latest and best in […]
