The Flow

Dark Whispers has released their new EP, FADES (2026), recorded at Conatus Studio. A first single, The Striker, released on March 13, marks a bold shift toward a sharp and atmospheric modern metal sound.

Following a series of notable releases — including the EP VOID (2023), accompanied by four music videos — the band has made its mark on stage with energetic performances, notably at Paillote Festival, Summerside Festival, and Undertown.

Kael Strahm is a Swiss musician and singer. His music combines atmospheric pop with influences from New Wave and Goth. Melancholic synths, dark guitars and his distinctive baritone voice shape his sound, inspired by bands such as Depeche Mode and HIM.

Formé par des passionnés de rock progressif aux expériences musicales diverses et qui ont connu les années septante, B SHARP (B#) propose ses compositions et ses textes. Musique tantôt planante, tantôt plus rude, alliant énergie et climats, enracinée dans le rock et chantée en anglais. Une musique qui aime explorer en contant des histoires.

John Ray Polenta: guitare, claviers (Maladie Honteuz, Warm Combo)
Wania Hude: chant, claviers (Warm Combo)
Miguel Sanchez: basse, chant (Maladie Honteuz, Taboo, Gaïa, Vinobox)
Robert Luisier: guitare (Maladie Honteuz, Taboo, The Gang)
Vincent Filliettaz: Batterie (Funkmates, No Hawks, Square Vision)

CONTACT
Wania Hude • 076 464 5120 • wania.hude@vtxnet.ch

Guelden is a singer-songwriter who studied music and singing. She channels her musical background into writing vibrant, upbeat Dance-Pop songs that bridge catchy melodies with modern production. Alongside her original songwriting, she gladly brings her vocal style to creative covers. Driven by a passion for performance and connection, Rozeva creates music that moves both the heart and the dance floor.

YoPhilly
YoPhilly ist ein Musikproduzent aus der Schweiz, der sich nicht auf ein Genre festlegt. Zwischen Hip-Hop, Trap, Drill und Hardwave verbindet er druckvolle Bässe mit melodischen Hooks und emotionalen Momenten. Seine Musik reicht von energiegeladenen Club-Tracks bis zu persönlichen Songs über Liebe, Schmerz und Zusammenhalt.
Dabei verbindet er eigene Kreativität mit künstlicher Intelligenz: YoPhilly nutzt KI zur Erstellung von Musik und produziert auch eigene Beats, die er mithilfe von KI weiterentwickelt und klanglich poliert. Experimentieren, neue Ideen ausprobieren und Sounds verfeinern gehören für ihn zum kreativen Prozess. Die musikalische Richtung und die Auswahl dessen, was am Ende im Track bleibt, bestimmt er selbst.
Nicht jeder Song muss gleich klingen – aber jeder soll etwas auslösen. Ob schwere Bässe oder eine Melodie, die hängen bleibt: YoPhilly macht Musik für Momente, die man nicht nur hört, sondern fühlt.
«Philly Make That Bass Drop.»

Made in Zurich; the tracks were created "freestyle" during after-work sessions. Thanks for listening. Lyrics and melodies performed by Marcel Sorrentino; no AI or software was used.

COILGUNS (est. 2011) in short

Initially coming from the DIY hardcore scene, Coilguns have crafted since then their very own blend of punk and ecstatic noise-rock. They are known for their raw, uncompromising and euphoric live performances, proudly serving the dancing freaks and the crowd-surfing weirdos.

The band history is deeply bound to the development of guitarist Jona Nido’s own label – Humus Records – that now gathers up to 170 releases from Swiss artists of all sonic horizons. Though most of their first albums were 100% self-produced, engineered and mixed by the band members, Coilguns drove in the summer of 2022 to end-of-the-world’s Oceansound Recordings in Norway with producer Scott Evans to track their fourth studio album, later mixed by Grammy-nominated producer Tom Dalgety. Released in November 2024, the album marked a turning point for the band and led to their most extensive touring cycle to date, with over 85 shows played worldwide in 2025.

Stoked by this unexpected exposure, the band couldn’t wait to write and record a fifth album, and managed to sneak it in between tours. These new tracks were mixed again by Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Pixies, Royal Blood, Tiger Cub) and recorded by Scott Evans (Thrice, La Dispute, Neurosis), but this time the American engineer flew to Switzerland to track the band in their hometown. Recording took place right after their first Mexican tour, at the headquarters of their own record label – Humus Records – an old warehouse packed with vintage gear in the city center of La Chaux-de-Fonds. To make sure not to miss any opportunity the songs could offer, the band also asked Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe, The Armed) to contribute to the whole with some overdubs and additional production. After releasing two singles this spring, Peace Trader and Carbon Magic, Coilguns now unveils a third single, Everything We Love, We Destroy, the title track of the band's fifth studio album. The single will be released on September 11th, while the full album Everything We Love, We Destroy will officially follow on November 6th, 2026.

Sheldon San Kalki is a Swiss musician born in Geneva in 1962, hailing from a family of both amateur and professional musicians. Despite a genetic arm condition (Madelung's deformity) that prevents him from playing instruments with necks—such as guitar, bass, violin, or saxophone—he developed a piano and keyboard style rooted in improvisation, adapting to the fact that virtuosic left-hand playing was not an option for him. Consequently, after training in rhythm and body movement at the Institut Jacques-Dalcroze, struggling to learn the recorder, and studying music theory and classical piano for five years with his aunt Mariette Félix, he turned to jazz, blues, funk, pop, and rock, and later to popular music and piano-bar standards. Sheldon San Kalki has accompanied numerous singers and performed with various orchestras and bands from 1975 to the present, including the *Orchestre du Cycle d'Orientation*; the *Choeur du Collège Voltaire* (performing Monteverdi’s *L'Orfeo* and Mozart’s *Requiem* at Victoria Hall in 1978); the funk-rock group "LO TZE"; Bernie Constantin’s band; singer Brian McCombe; Jesús Garcia’s *Génération* orchestra; and singers Aline Chalifoux, Fabienne Palasciano, and Katy Leander. He has also performed solo as a pianist for bars and dance events in numerous luxury hotels and restaurants across Switzerland and Europe. After completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Naville, he went on to train as a specialist musical instrument salesperson and retail employee at Bernard Musique—the renowned musical instrument and sound equipment store visited by every show-business celebrity passing through Geneva.

A Solothurn-based cover and rock band, which toured extensively in the 80s and 90s, is back!
Three of the four original members have reunited and are now ready to play for you with new bandmates.
"Back to the Roots" is our motto, so we rock through various styles of southern and rock music, primarily playing covers of our favorite bands. It's a blast!

So stay tuned and check out our upcoming gigs here!

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The Story

It all started with the Solothurn party band FOR SALE, which performed regularly in smaller clubs and at parties in the region from 1989 to 2000. In addition to covers, more and more original songs were added to their repertoire.

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After 2000, FOR SALE evolved into the band THE GREEN CHEESE.
Now, a record has finally been released, documenting the success achieved with FOR SALE, and is available as a maxi-CD.
Unfortunately, this group disbanded soon after.

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After further band projects over the past 20 years, most recently with the dialect band HUUSMEISCHTER, three of the original members revived the band FOR SALE in 2021.

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With Mänu on vocals, Ringgu on guitar, and Säschu on keyboards, the new lineup was soon complete.

Swiss born. London based.
Making good music.

Pedro Rodrigues is a Swiss music producer of Cape Verdean descent based in Geneva. He writes, composes, arranges, and records his songs with a distinctive style and complete artistic freedom, aiming to provide the listener with an unforgettable auditory experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nh7saVKvWs&list=RD5Nh7saVKvWs&start_radio=1

Mein Name ist Heinz, und meine musikalische Reise begann bereits mit sechs Jahren. Zuerst spielte ich Blockflöte, gefolgt von einer klassischen Ausbildung in Musiktheorie und verschiedenen Instrumenten. Ich begann mit der Trompete, wechselte dann zur Zugposaune, dem Schlagzeug und dem Keyboard. Diese frühen Erfahrungen legten den Grundstein für meine heutige Leidenschaft. Über viele Jahre hinweg war ich in verschiedenen Musikgruppen aktiv – von einer traditionellen Musikgesellschaft über Tanzbands bis hin zu einer Countryband und als One-Man-Band. Heute habe ich meine Leidenschaft der Musikproduktion verschrieben und kreiere vielseitige Klänge, die von Country und Pop über Schlager und Reggae bis hin zu mitreissender Disco-Musik reichen. Vielseitige Musik gefällt mir am besten.

Lausanne-based artist Robin Wave creates queer, sensual and unconventional electronic pop, turning desire, the body, social norms and contradictions into song material. His world blends humour, vulnerability, provocation and camp aesthetics, without choosing between lightness and depth.

After releasing his debut EP, "Cycles", in 2023, Robin Wave is now opening a new chapter in his artistic journey. His new songs explore desire, sexuality, identity and the mechanisms of judgement surrounding bodies and behaviour more directly. From "Animal" to "Gratuit", he transforms intimate experiences into songs that also speak of freedom, healing and reclaiming oneself.

CARO FIORA is the silence of moonlight and the liveliness of fire at the same time. Hopeful, melancholic and open, like the sky must feel after a storm, the Winterthur-based artist reveals her innermost feelings with a gentle voice and powerful words. In dialect and English, she embraces contrasts, celebrates fragility and appeals to slowness.

Her solo project is a place of power turned into sound: indie poetry full of air, earthy warmth and playful tape-aesthetics. A musical diary that roams through forests, falls silent under the northern lights, binds the heart to distant horizons – and sets it free.

«caves not cages» marks the release of the second single from the forthcoming album «busy doing nothing», due in 2027.

The Zurich-based band rose from the ashes of the legendary Circle Brothers. During the coronavirus lockdown, twin brothers Alban Ringli (guitar/vocals) and Urs Ringli (bass) reunited with Martin Heer (drums). Fueled by pent-up energy, they began crafting a sound heavier than their previous work. The dust has settled, yet the foundation remains; building upon it, Donalds of Horror have erected a new rock cathedral, adorned with ornaments and guardian spirits reminiscent of Joy Division, Bauhaus, the Dead Kennedys, the Clash and Metallica.

Even as a child, Jula Glore was passionate about playing the piano.
Although she took piano lessons for a few years, her own compositions were always more important to her. To this day, she plays and performs her songs and piano pieces without sheet music.
In her mid-20s, she spent several months working as a background pianist at a resort hotel, where she had the opportunity to present her original compositions—which were still instrumental at the time—to an audience outside her own four walls.
Shortly thereafter, she began writing songs and performing them herself. Two of these were professionally produced for a demo tape purposes by #Carsten Mentzel at a studio in Bonn, Germany. He is himself an incredibly versatile artist and music producer: https://carsten-mentzel.de/
In the years that followed, she sang and played in several bands, and in 2009, she became fully absorbed in songwriting. Within 12 months, she composed nearly 30 songs and gradually overcame her severe stage fright, finally presenting three songs from her new material to the public for the first time at the “take 15” event at the “Turbine Theater” www.turbinetheater.ch in October 2009.
This event brought Jula together with the three-member core of the band “NiceNoise.” The temporary “joint venture” between Jula and NiceNoise was sealed, resulting in a one-hour performance at the “Albis Openair” in 2010.

Jula’s melodious, emotionally charged songs are brimming with heart, passion, and ambition.
After a break, her first officially produced single, “Sky on Fire,” was released in December 2019, along with a music video.
In 2020, Jula wrote her first commissioned song in Swiss German, “Füür und Flamme,” for a wedding couple. However, the song has not been released; it is only “available” on MX3.ch.
In October 2020, the second single, “Mid-Season Sale,” was released, followed by a Eurodance-style remix in October 2025.
Another project close to her heart was the release of the ballad “NO WAY BACK,” which came out in mid-December 2024 along with a music video, as well as another deeply emotional ballad, “Stronger,” released earlier in October 2024.
More songs will follow in the coming months and in 2027. Along with the previously released tracks, they will be part of the long-planned debut album, which will showcase the diversity of Jula’s musical work.
Between 2009 and 2026, over 50 compositions and songs were created across the genres of pop, rock, soul-pop, and several ballads. A selection of these, including the tracks already released, will be part of the planned album. All released songs have been and will be produced exclusively by #Domenico Livrano https://www.livrano-group.ch/domenico-livrano-tonstudio (with the exception of “Sky on Fire,” produced in collaboration with Simona Müller/iMD-Sunjita.

Nina Valotti makes dialect pop for anyone who isn’t quite sure where they’re heading yet – but is getting rather good at forging their own path. In a personal, direct style and with a healthy dose of self-confidence, the Zurich-based musician writes about change, feeling overwhelmed, relationships and the courage to take oneself seriously.

In 2025, Nina Valotti released her debut album *Fang nomal a* and played around 40 gigs across Switzerland. March 2026 saw a highlight of her career so far: being named SRF 3 Best Talent at the Swiss Music Awards.

​Live, she consistently performs alone on stage. Using an electric guitar, synthesiser, samples and loops, she builds her songs herself and makes being a solo artist a central part of her artistic identity.

​Her new EP, *Nüt isch für immer (au wänn i das wett)*, created in collaboration with producer Luca Burkhalter, is due for release in autumn 2026. It explores a contradiction that runs through Nina Valotti’s current music: the desire to hold on to things whilst realising that everything is constantly changing anyway.

The new songs tell of decisions and their consequences, of moments when it all becomes too much, of being in between, and of the question of what actually happens when you stop trying to fit into predefined patterns.

Nina Valotti sounds more self-assured than ever. She writes about being different, about big dreams and about not having to constantly explain one’s own path – without pretending that this means all doubts have vanished. Perhaps you don’t actually have to have figured everything out. Sometimes it’s enough to trust your own ideas, let your imagination run wild a little, and just set off.

Enrique Spacca, an Italian-Colombian songwriter and pianist, shapes what he calls imaginal music, an Italian indie folk shot through with transcendental pop: through simple vocal melodies and the unexpected harmonies of an introspective piano, he opens the doors of an inner world to his audience.
Based in Switzerland, he weaves Italian, his mother tongue, with English to tell stories of upheaval and transformation, inviting a shift in perspective: beyond the noise of the world, to renew the bond that unites us to others and to the living, and to find unity at the heart of division.
His solo project is a tension towards authenticity, matured over years of sound exploration within bands and visual research, in the lineage of Battiato, Conte, Pino Daniele and Andrea Lazlo de Simone.

At Baron Lane ist eine vierköpfige Indie Band aus Raum Zürich bis Lachen SZ. Seit der Plattentaufe ihres Debütalbums „in Paradise“, welche sie 2019 in der Amboss Rampe Zürich feierten, hat die Band ihr Songwriting laufend verfeinert – und im Rahmen unzähliger Konzerte erfolgreich live getestet. Ebenfalls war das Quartett unter anderem schon in der Schüür Luzern, dem Exil Club Zürich und dem Werk21 im Dynamo Zürich zu sehen.

Inspiriert von Bands wie Parcels, Twenty One Pilots, Metronomy, l’Imperactrice oder auch Duran Duran erkundet At Baron Lane die Grenzen von Indie Pop und experimentiert mit interessanten Arrangements, Synthesizer-Klängen, mehrstimmigem Gesang, und luftigen Elektrobeats. Manchmal wagt sich die Band aber auch in Richtung Madness – so auf ihrem bevorstehenden Konzeptalbum “The Cause”, welches Ende 2025 erscheinen wird.

Auf dem bevorstehenden Album erzählt At Baron Lane, wie der fiktive Revolutionär ‘Lenny’ zuerst einen Ausweg aus dem bürokratischen System unserer Gesellschaft sucht und dabei Anhänger*innen um sich schart, was sich zu einem richtigen Kult entwickelt. Trotz seinem ganzen Gefolge und dem Eindruck, dass grundsätzlich auch Aussenstehende an vielen Stellen die Meinungen von Lenny teilen, verflüchtigt sich irgendwann die Bewegung plötzlich. Ohne etwas erreicht zu haben schwindet auch Lennys Energie, sich weiterhin für den “Cause” einzusetzen.
Erste Eindrücke zum Ska-Punk angehauchten Sound finden sich auf der Single “Gotta Get Out”, welche die Band bereits 2019 fertigstellte. Das Album und die Geschichte fertig zu schreiben war allerdings ein langgezogener Prozess, wobei ebenfalls 2020 der etwas funkigere Track “Right Hand Man”, oder der Beatles inspirierte Song “Change” (2023) entstanden waren.