Gaspar Narby’s transatlantically broken heart
Electronic singer/songwriter Gaspar Narby celebrates the release of a new EP, “Transatlantic”, and a new single, “Sirenes” via the Basel and Hamburg based Radicalis label. Both, EP and single, came out on 5 June 2020. “Transatlantic” offers an atmospheric slice of trippy electro pop, with lyrics about the end of a long distance relationships, and […]
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 […]
Audio Dope goes “Superlunary”
Post-hip-hop producer Audio Dope’s second album “Superlunary” was released on 24 April by Radicalis. Consisting of eight instrumental tracks laced with the odd vocal sample, “Superlunary” creates a spookily meditative mood that goes well with the empty streets of the present circumstances. In fact, the Italian film maker Jacopo Ficulle has created the perfect video […]
Echoes from Kappa Mountain
Kappa Mountain is the highest mountain on Yoshi’s Island on planet Super Mario. It is also the name of a new duo, formed by Audio Dope and the Basle-based pianist Matthias Gusset. Their debut EP “Echo Pool” was released on 8 May 2020 via Radicalis and London-based College Music Records. The musical version of Kappa […]
Al Pride Spruced Up
The name says it’s a bloke, the picture tells us it’s a band. Yes, one of those, and they have a lively new EP out. “Spruce” contains four tracks, three have been premiered in a live session last autumn, the fourth, a snappy number entitled “Another Vibe” is entirely new. The EP is an appetiser […]
Scalatrax – Drummer on the Loose!
By day, Florian Haas-Schneider – is the drummer in bands like Audio Dope, Nicole Bernegger, Emilia Anstazja and many others. By night, he is an alchemist dreaming up all sorts of weird and beautiful new sounds – a vision he has now shaped into an artistic alter ego named Scalatrax. “Scalatrax” is also the title […]
SOOMA – Exuberantly Dark
Valentine’s Day, of all days in the year, saw the release of SOOMA’s new album “It’s All About to Change” via Radicalis Music. SOOMA are a noisy young band from Zurich, boasting the classic trio line-up of guitar/vocals (Yannic Consael), bass (Victor Rassov) and drums (Fidel Aeberli). Having started off rough, ready and hardcore, SOOMA have […]
Jeans for Jesus with new cut!
Three years ago, their last album hit the top 20. There is every hope that with “19xx_2xxx” (aka “nineteen hundred, two thousand”) Jeans for Jesus will go one (or two) better. “19xx_2xxx” was released internationally by Universal on 24 January. For Stephan Eicher, who supports Jeans for Jesus on the French version of the single „1900 […]
Enlightenment through music
MUAR is apparently the Hebrew word for enlightenment. It is also the title of the debut album from the Israeli/Swiss duo Dorj & Melodiesinfonie, released on 24 September 2019 via Radicalis Music. Dorj and Melodiesinfonie met three years ago in a Zurich venue. Dorj was bowled over by Melodiesinfonie’s DJ set, the best he’d ever witnessed, he says. The two […]
The Vogel flies
A harpist by trade, singer/songwriter Linda Vogel wrote the songs of her album “Maps to Others” in a place called Finistère – “the end of the world” – on the shores of the Atlantic. Aided by drummer and composer, Vincent Glanzmann, Linda Vogel, with her harp and her voice, creates an eerie and yet muscular music with […]
