There is beauty in a soundscape and beauty in design. And for once, they seem both thoughtfully made while remaining marvelously malleable...
Tag - music
James Violette
The amazing history of the Great St. Bernard Hospice
The third highest road pass in the Alps runs past the Great St. Bernhard Hospice, and like all of the high passes, it is closed to car traffic...
Christian
6 Swiss bands to watch out for in 2014
Get your yodeling stereotypes right out of your head and give these hand picked, up-and-coming Swiss bands a listen!
Dimitri Burkhard
The Lucerne Festival is a celebration of classical and contemporary music
Every summer for 75 years, the Lucerne Festival has taken over this popular city in Central Switzerland. Once all the dust has settled...
Mani Matter – A Great Swiss Song Maker
Ask any Swiss person about Mani Matter and they will start singing one of his many songs...
Irene Wyrsch
Impressions from the Buskers Street Music Festival in Lugano
Once a year, Lugano is home to one of the most wonderful street artist festivals I’ve ever seen. Lugano Buskers has just finished its fifth edition and I can say without a doubt: It keeps getting better...
Alessandra
The Power of Music – Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
We all know them. We have memories about them. But have we ever really taken them to heart? The best popular songs of all time undoubtedly have some strong calls to action: “Fight for your right”...
Eye to Eye with a Blues Legend – B.B. King Live
Nothing thrills me more than having any opportunity to listen to famous Blues players in the right environment. If seeing the 87 year old B.B. King in a small, personal setting before he hangs up his Lucille is on your...
Paul HilliardUnexpected Notes from the Montreux Jazz Festival
I imagined a jazz festival with deep bass strings humming, whisker like drum sticks scratching jazz beats, and husky divas or melancholic trumpets vibrating our sorrow, like Sarah Vaughan’s or John Coltrane’s. All that...
Mamiko