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 […]
Frank Powers cries “Juheminee”
Juheminee is a combination of the very Swiss words “juhee” (oh joy!) and “oh jemineh” (oh dear). This word creation is just as witty as the cartoon figures on Frank Powers’s homepage – which also cover one of the band’s items of merchandise, a skateboard. Whip-smart lyrics sung in German German as well as Swiss […]
Andrea Bignasca on murder tour
The long hair doesn’t lie: Andrea Bignasca is a proper, old-fashioned rock fan in the mould of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bruce Springsteen or Kings of Leon. Raised near Lugano in the Italian part of Switzerland and a drummer by trade, Andrea’s new album, “Murder”, is his second. It was released via Radicalis and Soulfood in Germany […]
Annie Goodchild’s Meditative Mouthfuls
American-born and Swiss-based Annie Goodchild has toured the world with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox as well as her own former band Melou. She combines a strong and multi-facetted pop/soul voice with smart electronic/organic funkiness which makes her music utterly impossible to pigeon-hole. A new EP “Meditative Mouthfuls” was released on 28 September by Radicalis Music. […]
Zeal & Ardor’s “Stranger Fruit”
8 June sees the eagerly awaited release of Zeal & Ardor’s new album. Entitled “Stranger Fruit”, it’s their second and marks a considerable step forward for the Basel-based multi-instrumentalist Manuel Gagneux. If the much-praised debut “Devil is Fine” showed an artist in the process of discovering a new voice, on “Stranger Fruit” Gagneux is now […]
Evelinn Trouble feeling hopeful
Evelinn Trouble rarely does the same thing twice. Thus, her brand new EP, “Hope Music”, released on 4 May via Radicalis, marks another unexpected and intriguing twist in this Zurich-born and raised singer/songwriter’s career. Making a conscious effort to counter the pessimism of contemporary urban life, she has excised all traces of irony and cynicism […]
Audio Dope debuts with dope audio
Basel-based electronica producer Audio Dope – aka Mischa Nüesch – releases his debut album “Audio Dope” on 2 February 2018 via Radicalis Music in Switzerland and Majestic Casual Records in Germany. Having begun his musical life ten years ago by crafting old-fashioned beats inspired by late 1990s hip-hop, Audio Dope subsequently spread his wings to discover […]
Monumental EP release
Their debut single, “Navigate”, caused quite a ripple in the blogosphere last November, garnering positive comments from blogs like Discobelle, BigShot Magazin, Arctstreet, cheatbook magazine and Conversations About Her. Another single followed swiftly after, and now we have the band’s debut EP, also named “Monumental Men”, and released on 9 February 2018 via Radicalis and […]
