Heimweh, the new album, by Swiss Miss, may be the concept album to end all concept albums. Created by New York based Swiss musician Eliane, the album brings together a dazzling variety of Swiss female vocalists performing renditions of traditional Swiss folk songs representing many geographic regions and dialects of Switzerland on a backdrop of […]
Much can be said about the life, travels and career path of Erika Stucky, but one can learn a great deal about the identity of this woman by simply listening to her album Suicidal Yodels. In the opening seconds of the first track the artist reveals herself to be a complex and well informed interpretive musician, incorporating […]
For the opening track of her debut solo album, Closer Than Far , Swiss-American singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Serena Jost performs a cover, Our Town by Iris DeMent. The juxtaposition of the driving rhythm and Serena’s lilting, melodic vocal delivery sets the tone for a collection of material filled with contrast, whilst referencing a theme which becomes recurrent […]