Of Traktors, Seagulls and Swimming Tubas
Out now via Irascible Records is “Möwe auf Tuba, schwimmend” (“Seagull on Top of a Tuba, Swimming“) from Bernese post-Balkan big band Traktorkestar. It’s the sixth full-length album from trumpeter Baltasar Streit’s twelve-piece orchestra and continues a fiery, fifteen-year history of a mind-meltingly surreal melange of styles ranging from traditional Balkan brass wig-outs to dub […]
Odd Beholder Turning Grief into Music You Can Dance to
Odd Beholder is the dream pop/electro wave project of Zurich-based singer, songwriter and electronica specialist Daniela Weinmann. Entitled “Feel Better”, Odd Beholder’s new album is out now via Berlin-based Sinnbus Records. She celebrates the album release with a tour of Germany in March, presented by ByteFM and the highly respected monthly magazine Musikexpress. The cheery […]
At Last, Ikan Hyu Reach the “Oasis”
Long anticipated, Ikan Hyu’s debut album has at last arrived. Entitled “Oasis”, it comes to us thanks to Mouthwatering Records. It feels like only yesterday that we first raved about the music of Anisa Djodoatmodjo and Hannah Bissegger in these pages. And yet, so informs us Mouthwatering’s press release, the duo has only just survived […]
To Athena Has Made A Movie
To Athena is the name of singer/songwriter Tiffany Limacher’s solo project, and “The Movie” is the title of her new, second album. It was released on 20 October 2023 by Mouthwatering Records. Even though Lucerne-based To Athena is billed as a solo project, it is as far away as can be from a lone guitar […]
Elvett Climbing the Hill
“Reborn”, they say, after a creative residency at Geneva’s Epicentre, electropop duo Elvett release their new album, «The Hill», via Mouthwatering Records. Elvett are Lyn (vocals) and Alain (production). Together, they have been releasing a steady stream of elegant electropop singles and albums since around 2015. Almost as long they have been collaborating with singer […]
Blind Boy de Vita Setting Sail
Launched last year in the shape of an EP, Italo-Swiss space-blues maestro Blind Boy De Vita has now completed his new album with the addition of another four tracks. Entitled “Zattera” (Italian for “raft”), it was released on 7 April 2023 via Mouthwatering Records. Born and raised in Southern Italy, Blind Boy de Vita, aka […]
OY Embracing the World
At long last, they’re back! Seven years after their last album, the multi-facetted electronica/vocal duo OY release their fourth album via Mouthwatering Records. Entitled “World Wide We”, it is their “statement for global solidarity”: “It’s the uplifting soundtrack to our most challenging times ,” they write. “A call to focus on what we have in […]
Black Sea Dahu Hitting Their Orbit
To keep them company on another mammoth tour, Black Sea Dahu are releasing a new EP via Mouthwatering Records on 11 November 2022. Entitled “Orbit”, it contains four new songs, all written by their singer, Janine Cathrein. The band formed around the two Cathrein sisters, Janine and Vera, has been on the road incessantly since […]
Ay Wing Taps Into the Bloodstream
Three years after “Orange Dreamer”, a track that boasts six-figure downloads and has popped up in countless playlists, singer/songwriter/producer Ay Wing finally delivers her debut album. “Bloodstream” is available now via Mouthwatering Records. Combining a featherlight touch with vocal melodies with beat-heavy R&B-inspired grooves and intimate, introspective lyrics, Berlin-based Ay Wing aka Alexandra Landtwing also […]
Pina Palau breaking the Illusion
After July already saw the release of her EP “Breathe”, Pina Palau now released her debut album “Illusion” on 16 September 2022 via Mouthwatering Records. The singer/songwriter from Zurich “loves the incongruous, the contradictory, the petty, the awkward and the ugly found in all of us” and refers to her finely spun indie/folk songs as […]
