Moira Joining Otrava for a Trip to Planet Moirava
They truly are a marriage made in heaven: exuberant singing phenomenon Moira aka Carola Wirth and hydra-headed Balkan-Charleston-Polka fusion dervishes Otrava. You want proof? Here’s their new album, “Planet Moirava”, available via Irascible Records. For the past fifteen years, Wirth, besides releasing a couple of well-received chanson albums, has toured Europe with Zurich’s Balkan-Roma-Jazz band […]
Luumu Loves Elephants
Adina Luumu aka Adina Friis is a composer, singer and pianist from Lucerne whose music is truly uncategorisable. Entitled “Elephant Love Song”, her trio’s third album is out now via TOURBOmusic. Unless an artist directly models themselves on someone else, direct comparisons are usually misleading. And so it is with Nick Drake, to whom Luumu […]
Eclecta Bowing Out on a High
After nine years together, Marena Whitcher and Andrina Bollinger, aka Eclecta, have decided to go their separate ways. Far from bowing out quietly, however, they are saying goodbye with a peach of an album. Entitled “Open Other Doors”, it hits the shops on 6 November via TOURBOmusic and is distributed by Kontor New Media 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 […]
Moes Anthill aren’t “Quitters”!
If the title of Moes Anthill’s new album, “Quitter”, gives the impression that this may be the quintet’s parting shot, the opposite is true. Moes Anthill are very much alive, and they intend to continue to be so. “Quitter” is their fourth album (their fifth, if we count last year’s chamber music project Moes Anthill […]
