A Taste of Swiss Music @ Les Recontres Transmusicales de Rennes – 4 – 8 December 2019 – Rennes, France
One more festival to go before the end of the decade – aptly, it’s one of the most interesting, charming and entertaining events in our yearly itinerary. Launched in 1979, les Transmusicales have unwaveringly pursued their original aims ever since. These include a commitment to showcasing emerging artists, and to support originality and experimentation. Swiss […]
Swiss Focus at Les Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes 5. – 9. December 2018
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes may be the last great festival of the year, but it certainly isn’t the least. Situated on the edge of one of the most picturesque parts of France, Brittany, Rennes isn’t short of attractive sights. However, during the five days the city hosts this glorious five-day extravaganza of musical […]
One Sentence. Supervisor take on the world and beyond
The news hit One Sentence. Supervisor shortly before their two mind-twistingly intense and much commented-on performances at the Reeperbahn Festival: they were to go on a ten-date tour of Europe, supporting the hugely popular UK trip hop band Archive. What makes this prospect doubly satisfying is the fact that, far from buying themselves on this […]
Swiss Music Export stops off at The Rencontres Transmusicales de Rennes 6 – 10 December 2017
Ah, Les Transmusicales! If it’s autumn, and it’s music, it’s got to be the richly picturesque and historic city of Rennes in the West of France. Once again, Swiss Music Export in collaboration with Presence Switzerland will endeavour to make a big musical splash at this fabulous multi-venue event, the last and certainly the most […]
Switzerland at Les Transmusicales de Rennes – various venues – 30 Nov – 4 Dec 2016
Who would want to miss Les Transmusicales? Not us, that’s for sure, and hopefully neither will you! Once again, Swiss Music Export in collaboration with FCMA will endeavour to make a big musical splash at this fabulous multi-venue event in Rennes, the last and perhaps greatest opportunity of this year to discover next year’s break-through […]
Four strong Swiss acts at Rencontres Transmusicales de Rennes – 2 – 6 December
Switzerland will be represented by four bands at this year’s Rencontres Transmusicales in Rennes: the Chikitas, Klaus Johann Grobe, FlexFab and Grand Cannon. For 36 years, the picturesque Brittany town of Rennes has been the home of the Rencontres Transmusicales de Rennes, traditionally the last major festival of Europe in the year, and, equally traditionally, […]
Verveine releases new EP „Antony“
Introduced as one of fifteen “unmissable acts” at the Transmusicales de Rennes by Les Inrocks, the French newspaper Libération was fulsome in its praise last December of Verveine’s performance at the festival. Devoting a major feature to the 25 year old artist from Vevey, “The Swiss singer fulfilled and even surpassed all the promises made […]
Strong Swiss Presence at the Transmusicales de Rennes 3 – 7 December 2014
Swiss Music Export, in partnership with Fondation CMA and Opération Iceberg, are presenting three Swiss artists at this year’s edition of the Transmusicales de Rennes under the „Focus International“ banner at the 450 capacity L’Ubu venue next to the Theatre National de Bretagne. The featured artists are Verveine, Puts Marie and Pablo Nouvelle. Before the […]
Velvet Two Stripes @ Les Trans Musicales Festival, Rennes
Velvet Two Stripes: Saturday 7 December @ Parc Expo, Hall 3; 03.30-04.15h The last major festival in Europe this year is also one of the most popular and most interesting. From its inception in those distant New Wave-days of 1979, the pioneering Rencontres Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes was conceived as a place to discover […]
Velvet Two Stripes @ Rencontres Trans Musicales 2013
The St.Gallen-based trio Velvet Two Stripes, signed to the German Snowhite Agency/Records, have been confirmed to play the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes. Passionately dedicated for thirty years to the discovery of innovative new music, the festival is one of the oldest-established in Europe. Artists as diverse as Portishead and Nirvana, the Do and Cabaret […]
