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 […]
Soybomb, the jugglers
Soybomb are without a doubt one of the wittiest bands in Switzerland, able to write songs as catchy as the measles and damned smart to boot. Their first album proper has been long and hotly anticipated – and it’s a corker. “Jonglage” – French for juggling – was released at the end of February, with […]
Anna Aaron dreams up her past
25 January sees the release of Anna Aaron’s new album, “Pallas Dreams”, her third. Demonstrating once again an indomitable spirit of exploration, Anna Aaron has dispensed with the services of an outside producer and recorded the album alongside her brother, Alain Meyer, in Basel and at the Maison des Artistes in Chamonix. Having previously experimented […]
Anoraque – not for anoraks!
How this band ever arrived at their cagoule of a name is a mystery. Anoraque are anything but boring. A kaleidoscopic view of everything that’s exciting in contemporary indie, more like. Taking as a starting point the angular dynamics of bands like Alt-J, Anoraque’s feelers are stretched out in all directions, from the glitschy electronica […]
Us & Sparkles damn the rich
The Zurich-based production duo Us & Sparkles – Roland Vollenweider aka steinklopfer, and Philipp Cron aka paws – have released EP volume four of excerpts from their “Damn Rich” series of experiments with space and ambient sound and rhythm. Us & Sparkles are perhaps better known for their deep and heavy downbeats, turned into a […]
