FRI, Jan 17th

20:30 @ Forum

Black Sea Dahu are Swiss singer-sogwriter Janine Cathrein and a gang of musical cohorts. Much like modern-day Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters - but without the LSD. They make some of the most searing, contemporary, urban folk around.

FRI, Jan 17th

19:45 @ Barn

69591, LAXÅ is not just the location of Mossbo, Sweden. It is also the name of the diverse debut album from The Gardener & The Tree. As much a reflection of the Swiss band’s past as it is a window into the future. 69591, LAXÅ is their first full length, allowing the listener to witness their authentic and memorable tunes.

FRI, Jan 17th

23:45 @ Grand Theatre Up

Pascal Gamboni is a singer, producer, songwriter. His music has been described as lo-fi and soulful; simple songs that capture the listener. He sings mainly in Romansh and anyone who has seen him perform live knows of the power and depth of his music - it’s a sound that lingers on.

THU, Jan 16th

20:00 @ Stadsschouwburg

Sophie Hunger has long been synonymous with a minimalist folk-jazz hybrid that put her in step with fellow travellers like Laura Marling and Feist. But since her move from Switzerland to Berlin, she discovered electronic music, became a frequent visitor to the Berghain club and developed an interest in modular synths. The songs she wrote in her home studio were recorded with producer Dan Carey in London, bundled on the Molecules album and released by Caroline International.

FRI, Jan 17th

00:15 @ Huis de Beurs

New sensation on Bongo Joe Records, AMAMI is a trio from Geneva who plays an exciting mixture of dancehall, tropical beats and dub. Created by the leader of Imperial Tiger Orchestra, AMAMI performs with a drum machine, heavy delays, a voice that is both rough and sharp, dub sirens, powerful keyboards, bass and an electronic trumpet. Dance, party people!

WED, Jan 15th

23:45 @ Vera

A Swiss Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist, who is also known from post-punk band Peter Kernel. Her music is an instinctive mixture of experimental, lo-fi electronic pop, and melodic collages, performed with turntables, fat synthesisers and cutting vocals.

FRI Jan 17th

21:30 @ Simplon (Up)

A young talent has emerged from the electronic music scene of Zurich that looks quite promising indeed. At only 21 years of age,
Cella has achieved a unique balance between trap and future bass that’s catapulted him into the international orbit. The producer
and instrumentalist accompanies ambitious touring with the diligent stockpiling of music, and now he’s chosen six singles for his
effort, Opportunity Cost out in May 2019 via Quartz Records / Universal Music.

FRI, Jan 17th

23:35 @ News Café

Producer and performer with Australian roots. Her beats flow somewhere between fresh electronics, rap and a hint of pop. Word is spreading quickly about her extremely engaging live shows. She was awarded both ‘Best Electronic’ and ‘Demo of the Year’, out of 800 entries at the M4Music festival in Zürich. Debut album Glitch Trigger follows the stories of characters she invented, accompanied by a concept art booklet.

FRI, Jan 17th

01:40 @ Kokomo

La colère is a Swiss electro artist and producer. She produced her first EP "Surface" in November 2018. This production led her to win the Demotape clinic Award in the electronic category at the M4music festival in Zurich. This victory pushed her onto the Swiss radio waves. Playing in venues such as the Street Parade, Caribana Festival (CH), Reeperbahn  Festival (DE), Sudwave (IT) have been the highlights of the career. Her first album "La vague" will be released in January 2020.

WED, 15th Jan

20:30 @ Forum

Their sound is driven by producers Biru and Melvyn Buss, dancefloor veterans with Round Table Knights and Mercury, as well as vocalist Roman Bühlmann, former lead singer of the folk outfit Patrick Bishop. The work of the crew from Bern, Switzerland sets out to capture the exciting dynamics of club music and translate that into contemporary pop.

FRI, Jan 17th

02:20 @ Kokomo

From the Geneva scene, Ramin & Reda forms a binomial which explores and implements global roots samples in their electronic selection. Wave, indie, disco, rock, arabic, maghreban and all sort of shamanism influences are the masterpieces of their multicultural universe.

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FRI Jan 17th

23:00 @ Kokomo

This Swiss five-piece was set out to write an Ibiza hit for fun, and they succeeded. ‘Long Days, Hot Nights’ lead to a string of BBC Radio 1-supported hits, garnering over 20 million listens. Later the Sirens of Lesbos realised the direction didn’t represent their true heart and further developed their multicultural, multi-faceted sound making its live debut in 2019.

WED, 15th Jan

20:00 @ Huize Maas (Front)

THU, 16th Jan

22:50 @ Huis De Beurs

This noise rock trio already caused a stir with their debut EP Interstates in 2017. Then, with the release of first album Driven in September 2018 the international feedback arrived, the buzz grew and the band won the Song Of The Year Award. A tour through Germany provided their first taste of international success and now Asbest want so much more.

FRI, Jan 17th

01:15 @ Vera

Coilguns is sure to crack your skull with their blend of noise and hardcore punk. The four hyperactive Swiss warriors of the heavy underground released their sophomore album in March 2018 on Hummus Records. Millennals is a violent and over the top distorted record and the new material is delivering more menacing goods.

THU, Jan 16th

20:45 @ Vera

Swiss singer-songwriter Emilie Zoé published two highly praised LPs on Hummus Records. She won a Swiss Music Award with The Very Start (2018). Zoé has been touring for ten years adapting her songs for theater plays, tv shows, live movie soundtracks and is currently presenting them on stage in a duo equipped with guitar and drums.

WED, Jan 15th

23:00 @ Grand Theatre Main

Taking their first steps in London as a duo in 2015, Swiss combo L’Éclair expanded the band back in their hometown of Geneva. The result is a sextet inspired by groove and kraut rock of the Seventies.

THU, Jan 16th

21:30 @ Simplon (Up)

A Cosmic Tropical pop duo composed of Simon and Réka, terrestrially-bound to the Swiss cities of Lugano and Zürich. Their music – a hybrid of atmospheric and cinematic soundscapes, groovy analogue pop songs and dreamy Vangelis-like synthetic odysseys – is a passionate confession of their compulsive love for stories untold.

THU, Jan 16th

23:35 @ News Café

Elastic Plastic Power Pop is what they call their 22nd century hybrid. Ikan Hyu harbours an obsession with fishy business: The Swiss duo uses ‘synthesizerdeepseabass’, sharp guitar riffs and ‘dike breaking’ drumbeats to ‘get the planets dancing’ and proclaims: ‘All the fishes in the sea, get away 'cuz here comes he: Ikan Hyu!’

FRI, Jan 17th

21:25 @ Vrijdag Main

Marius Bear has taken a unique route, starting in the Swiss army (of the ‘knife’ fame), moving to New York and then a music production course at BIMM in London. All of this experience has made Marius a rich and many layered personality which comes out beautifully on the single ‘My Crown’.

THU, Jan 16th

21:45 @ Forum

In the quiet remoteness of her home recording studio, Veronica Fusaro developed her characteristic soul pop sound and the bluntness of her songs. She then stepped into the spotlight in 2016 with self-produced EP Lost In Thought and surprised the Swiss music industry by winning several awards. Touring ever since, her music matured and Veronica learned to build sound structures with live multi-instrumental loops. Third EP Sunkissed came out fall 2019.

FRI, Jan 17th

00:30 @ Platform Theater (Main)

Born in Abidjan from an Italian father and an Ivorian mother, KT spent most of her childhood in the Ivory Coast. At 11 she arrived in Switzerland and jumped into old-school hip hop with The Fugees, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu-Tang Clan. Later KT started expressing herself over rap instrumentals, and at 21 she became the first female 'World Champion' in hip hop competition 'End of the Weak' in New York. It was on her return home that local hip hop fans began calling her KT Gorique.

FRI, Jan 17th

23:00 @ Grand Theatre Main

Their use of Motown formula in post-millennial age comes out as genre-bending, soul-nourishing, intelligent and timeless music celebrating African women. Style wise, the band is covering just about everything from old school hip hop, through blues, dancehall, retro-soul, future r&b, all types of African club inflections and a variety of global bass specimens.