Swiss Music Prizes by the Federal Office of Culture and Swiss Music Awards 2022
The “Swiss music prizes” is a collection of awards handed out each year by the „Federal Office of Culture“ to celebrate the achievements of artists and composers from all corners of the Swiss music world. The Swiss Grand Award for music 2022, decided upon by a jury consisting of seven music specialists representing the various […]
Printemps de Bourges, France – 24 – 29 April 2018 – this time with added Swissness
Spring’s in the air, and so is Printemps de Bourges, the bijou festival in the centre of France designed to celebrate and support all forms of Francophone song writing. And this time round, the event is even more special to us at Swiss Music Export than usual. This is because Switzerland is the festival’s featured […]
New improved Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp becoming even more surrealistic and powerful!
Incredibly, for their third album, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp have become even madder, badder and – most importantly – more exciting. Bass players, it is sometimes said, are crazier than drummers. Bassist Vincent Bertholet certainly is. He formed the Duchamps in 2006 in the image of his own thrilling self. A band that wouldn’t […]
Swiss Music Export celebrating the 42nd edition of the Paléo Festival 18 – 23 July 2017, Nyon, Switzerland
The Paléo Festival is quite definitely our favourite festival of all, and not just because it takes place just down the road from our offices in Nyon! Blessed with a gorgeous setting not too far away from the North banks of Lake Geneva, the Paléo has long since established its reputation as one of the […]
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on the cover of fRoots magazine
British fRoots magazine (“Local music from out there”) has long championed the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on their album and live review pages. Now they’ve gone one better: The sextet from Geneva are featured on the cover of fRoots’ March issue. Inside, four pages are devoted to the band that grew out of Geneva’s […]
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp ready to rock WOMAD
A great sense of anticipation precedes the fabulously raucous Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp’s appearance at this year’s WOMAD UK world music festival at Charlton Park near Malmesbury in Wiltshire on July 24 – 26. The six-piece from Geneva is top of the list in the UK’s Froots magazine’s festival recommendations. “Theirs is a self-professed […]
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on UK/Ireland tour
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp’s third album, “Rotorotor”, was unquestionably one of the most exciting and original albums made in Switzerland last year. This is what the highly respected UK monthly magazine fRoots (“The Essential Folk, Roots & World Music Guide”) had to say about it: “We are in the land of the desirably unclassifiable. […]
Five Swiss bands at the Eurosonic Festival, Groningen 14 – 17 January 2015
Forget skiing, skating and curling – the only place to be in the middle of January for anyone even vaguely interested in the latest musical trends in Europe is Groningen in the North of Holland. From its humble beginnings in 1986 as the site of a “battle of the bands” between Dutch and Belgian groups, […]
Great review for Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Highly respected UK monthly magazine fRoots (the self-styled “essential folk, roots & world music guide”) lists “Rotorotor”, the new album by Geneva-based sextet Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp amongst their albums of the month. There is also a glowing review of „Rotorotor“: “We are in the land of the desirably unclassifiable. Art rock meets the […]
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp charm France
The Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp left a deep impression with their riotously enjoyable appearance at the „Inouis du Printemps de Bourges“ festival. In April, the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp celebrated the release of their third album “Rotorotor”, with which they are part of May’s Selection of French Radio FIP. Clearly, the group are […]
