Selection of new releases
Matti Kohli: Tutti Matti
Matthias Kohli, drummer of Delation, Polo's Schmetterding, Span and many oher Swiss bands presents his first solo album. Songs in Swiss-German dialect (Bern).
Dada Ante Portas: The Classics
For 10 years now the rock quartet Dada Ante Portas from Lucerne have led a successful career in Switzerland and beyond. The Classics is a brand new album which shows the band in a bit a different setting than usual. Now they chose to work along with an ensemble of classical players behind them. Besides four new originals mainly old Dada Ante Portas hits got their new "classic" facelift.
QL & Pepe Lienhard Horns: Humba Tätärä
Big band punk. QL is a punk quartet from Biel-Bienne, formerly known as the Fishnet Stockings, which have toured worldwide over the past decade. On the present album they joined hands with Pepe Lienhard and his horn section and bring to nostalgic Swiss hits a punk touch combined with a jazzy big band feel.
Anthology
Swiss Pop & Rock Anthology - BEAT (Vol. 1)
From the beginnings till 1985 - The band Les Sauterelles stood for the decade of the 60ties, when Switzerland's youth was shaken by the rock'n'roll fever.
Swiss Pop & Rock Anthology - ROCK (Vol. 2)
From the beginnings till 1985 - Many ambitious Swiss musicians viewed the transition from the 60's to the 70's as a tremendous opportunity. Earthy rock - sometimes delirious and lost in the stars - set a clear contrast to earlier light and danceable rock'n'roll. To be progressive became the new motto.
Swiss Pop & Rock Anthology - WAVE (Vol. 3)
From the beginnings till 1985 - "Art? Yuck! Art is revolting! Arrogant, boring, elitist, abstruse, archaic!" This was Kleenex bass player Klaudia Schifferle's vehement reaction when asked to explain their band's "artistic statement". In 1978, Kleenex was Switzerland's first major all-woman band. Wave became the stylized rebellion against the music culture of the 60's and 70's.
Archive
Rock in Switzerland (MH 53/1982)
This edition presents the rock scene in Switzerland from its beginnings in the 1960ies to the early 1980ies.
Swiss Dialect Rock (MH 54/1982)
One of the most intriguing aspects of the popular music scene in Switzerland has been the development of dialect rock.
