The Rebels of Tijuana do it in French
The Rebels of Tijuana have been going for ten years and they’re wearing the coolest shirts in this month’s SME newsletter. This gives them the right to describe their new album – a double! – themselves: “Recorded on analogue tape at the “Back To Mono” Studio with Christian Hierro. Shifting into surreal French, the songs […]
Long Tall Jefferson is a “Lucky Guy”
Long Tall Jefferson aka Simon Borer is a very busy man. Apart from playing over 200 shows in eight countries in two years, he, along with a chap called The Fridge, is also the prime mover and shaker behind the Zurich-based musicians’ cooperative Red Brick Chapel which is at present working with fourteen acts. Somehow, […]
Pyrit takes “Control”
Pyrit is the name Thomas Kuratli has given to his on-going “cosmic desert music” adventure. Swiss artist Pyrit is now residing in Paris, plays guitar and cymbals with an occasional dash of electronica. “Control” is his second album. It was released on Paris-based Bookmaker Records on 6 April. Distribution is via Modulor Music (France), Irascible […]
Sunny vibes from Wintershome
“Around You I Found You”, that is the pleasingly circular-sounding title of the debut album of Wintershome, a six-piece hailing from the famous winter resort Zermatt in the shadow of the Matterhorn at the heart of Switzerland. It is released on 6 April in Switzerland via Irascible and on 27 April in Germany via Rough Trade. […]
Tompaul drop new EP
Tompaul are a trio from Baden near Zurich. They set off as a rather conventional singer/songwriter outfit but have since mutated into a groovy and innovative electronica band. Combining insistent dance beats with a subtle approach to melody and the laid-back singing style of Tom Fischer, they add further detail with the addition of live […]
Neutral Zone go Hogofogo
Neutral Zone release their fourth album “Hogofogo” on 3 November via Salvation Records/ Cargo Records (UK/Europe) and DALA Produkte/Irascible Music (Switzerland). The quartet is led by the Winterthur-based producer and multi-instrumentalist David Langhard. Clearly inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Neu and Giorgio Moroder, the band create a bouncy kind of analogue-synth-pop full of zesty […]
Blind Butcher ready to take the world
The wonderfully-weirdly-dressed Blind Butcher are an archetypal Voodoo Rhythm band: mad, bad and impossible to resist. The guitar/drums/pedals duo of Christian Aregger and Roland Bucher follow up their Steve Albini-produced debut album with a second LP, “Alawalawa”. Their typically idiosyncratic Voodoo Rhythm PR blurb describes their musical style as “irritating post punk new wave kraut […]
La Gale releases new album
After three years of incessant touring across Europe and performing everywhere, from punky squats to major festivals, Lausanne-based rapper and actress La Gale is at last ready to release her second album. “Salem City Rockers” was produced by French beatmasters I.N.C.H. and Al’Tarba. Released by local label Vitesse Records on 2 October, it is distributed […]
Cristallin on tour supporting Portico
Skateboard fan Cristallin, aka Simeon Sigg, progressed from producing videos for friends’ bands to making music himself whilst still in school. Releasing his first tracks via the internet, he was hugely surprised by the impact it made. After releasing his first EP on the New York-based “Brio Life” label, Cristallin won first prize at the […]
