Camilla Sparksss Driving Even Harder
Out now via On The Camper Records is “ICU RUN”, the new album from fearless synth experimentalist Camilla Sparksss. “ICU RUN” is about chaos, beauty, and survival”, she writes. “It’s the sound of grief crashing into defiance. I wanted to break things apart musically, to reflect the feeling of losing control but still clinging to […]
Mortòri Declaring War Against Love
Out now on On The Camper Records is “A Mort l’Amur”. Released under the banner of Mortòri, it is part one of a unique solo project from Aris Bassetti, also known for his work with Peter Kernel, Camilla Sparksss, Kety Fusco, Monte Mai and others. Another EP is scheduled for the summer, with the album […]
Peter Kernel Drumming Up a Storm
The “best band in the world called Peter Kernel” (according to themselves, at least) have come up with a very special and original concept for their latest album. Entitled “Drum to Death”, it is available now on On the Camper/Modulor Records. Nearly twenty years and 800+ concerts into their career, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti […]
Monte Mai Feeling Kaleidoscopic
Describing themselves as a “Swiss Grenadian psychedelic pop trio”, Monte Mai’s multi-coloured debut album “Eye Sea Double” is available now on Il Domani/On the Camper Records. Along with the basic digital release comes a suitably colourful array of extra formats including a limited-edition vinyl “Psycho Set” containing a customisable cover with three different screen print […]
Perseverance Pays off for Peter Kernel
They’re the self-proclaimed “best band in the world called Peter Kernel”, and they’ve been going for fifteen years. Quite rightly, the brains behind this much-loved maverick operation, Barbara Lenhoff and Aris Bassetti, have decided that this is an event worth celebrating. They will do so with an album appropriately entitled “Perseverance: 15 Years of Peter […]
Stay Up to Date on Swiss music and Enjoy Yourself!
Last month we provided you with a list of links to Swiss activities, campaigns and projects launched this extraordinary spring to keep you entertained and informed during the lockdown (and after!). Here’s an update – this time with links to Swiss labels, agencies, collectives, promoters – all this to make it easier for you not […]
Camilla re-Sparksss!
“Brutal” was the title of Camilla Sparksss’s last album offering, released in spring 2019. Now, Camilla and fifteen fellow studio mavericks have revisited that volcano of a record and produced a collection of remixes. The riveting results are gathered together for another album, not unreasonably entitled “Brutal Remix”. It was released on 21 February via […]
Camilla Sparksss discovers her brutal side
Camilla Sparksss aka Barbara Lehnhoff has never been a cuddly sort of artist. Combining punky vocals with minimalist electro rhythms and melodies, her short, sharp bursts of high-octane songs were designed from the off to rattle the cages. Now, five years after her sublimely noisy debut and countless ever more riveting live shows, comes her […]
Peter Kernel measure “The Size of the Night”
It is a real thrill for all of us at Swiss Music Export to be able to announce a new album from Peter Kernel. They are without a doubt one of the most innovative and intriguing bands Switzerland has produced in the past decade. “The Size of the Night” is their fifth album (not counting […]
Rocky Wood present new mini-album
The five members of Rocky Wood may be spread across half of Europe, from Berlin to Lugano and Bologna. In their music, however, they are well and truly in one place only – their own. Formed in Lugano in the Italian part of Switzerland, Rocky Wood are part of Peter Kernel’s On the Camper set-up. […]
