Aino Salto gorgeously exploring fantasies of endings and renewals
Entitled “Feeding the Fantasy”, the multi-facetted composer/singer/drummer Aino Salto aka Sonia Loenne releases her second EP in the space of two months, thus creating a kind of double-sided-Mini-LP. “Feeding the Fantasy” is available now via Irascible. These are the members of the band: Sonia Loenne (vocals), Luzius Schuler (keys), Paul Butscher (flugelhorn), Tabea Kind (double […]
Into the dark (and light) with Lone Assembly
Having caused quite a stir, internationally, with a handful of singles, here, at last, comes “Knots & Chains”, the debut album from the Genevan dark wave synth quartet Lone Assembly. Big and bold in sound, the disinterred joys of Goth darkness are laced with a dollop of Joy Division/New Order synth and the odd catchy […]
Personne’s attention economy
Newly out on Irascible records and Two Gentlemen records is the first sign of recorded life from Personne, an exciting new outfit formed in a blaze of creativity by three musicians not usually associated with each other. Zurich-based singer and pianist Anna Girsberger was last heard of in these pages when she released a much-admired […]
Cori Nora Brings Focus to Pleasure
Following up her 2023 album “Flowers and Fences”, singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Cori Nora once again goes for a two-pronged thematic approach: “Pleasure and Focus” is available now from Irascible. This time around, the much-travelled artist “wanted to tap into that collective energy – music as a raw and honest form of expression, an imprint of the moment”. […]
Batbait Digging Up the Garden
Nearly three years after their much-loved debut, “Dirty Clothes”, Zurich’s DIY-art-quartet Batbait return with album number 2. Sporting a rather fabulous cover, “Working in the Garden” is hitting the streets with the help of Irascible Records. Batbait began when a teacher at Zurich’s art school ZHdK challenged Gianna Brühwiler (guitar, vox) and Sandra Keller (guitar, […]
Laurel Bloom Finds a Sunny Room
Laurel Bloom announces himself to the world as a solo artist with a five-track EP, “Painting The Sunlight in My Room”. It is out now on Irascible Records. Laurel Bloom, aka Lucas Zibulski, is also the drummer of the Basel-based art/folk rock outfit Malummi. Fronted by Larissa Rapold, the band carried off the IndieSuisse award […]
The Human Birds of Aino Salto
“Imagine People as Adolescent Birds” – the title marks this album out as something quite special even before we press “start”. Aino Salto’s second album is available now via Irascible Records. Aino Salto is the solo project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Sonia Loenne. “I was born in France in 1996 and was moved to Leipzig […]
