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Frank Martin

Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands. He was born in Geneva, the tenth and last child of Charles Martin, a pastor. Before he started school, he was already playing the piano and improvising. At nine, he was composing complete, fully formed songs, without having had any instruction in song forms or harmony. A performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion which he heard at the age of twelve left upon him an ineradicable impression, and Bach became his true master.

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Chewy

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My Heart Belongs to Cecilia Winter

My Heart belongs to Cecilia Winter, A Swiss Indie Pop band, originated from Zurich, Switzerland.
The Band members are Thom Luz (Voc, Git) Betty Fischer (Voc, Bass) Gerber (Drums, Xylo, Celesta).
They just released "Our Love Will Cut Through Everything" album on 2010.
For more info about this band :
www.myheartbelongstoceciliawinter.ch

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The Jackets

There are at least two bands called "The Jackets": 1. The Jackets - Garage Rock (Bern, Switzerland): The Jackets are Jack Torera (aka Jackie Brutsche) formerly the guitarist for the girl group The Mad Cowgirl Disease from Bern and singer of the Zurich combo The Fox, Chris Rosales, an American who moved to Switzerland in 1994 from Los Angeles, formerly the drummer of Voodoo Rhythm Records bands, Lightning Beat-Man and the Never Heard of 'Ems, Reverend Beat-Man and the Unbelievers and The Get Lost (with ex Miracle Workers Gerry Mohr and Robert Butler) and Samuel 'Schmidi' Schmidiger...

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Redwood

Biog of Swiss based Redwood (1997 - present) 2007
REDWOOD releases their album "We're all gonna die". 2004
REDWOOD releases their debut album "Everything Under the Sun" on March 8th 2004 in collaboration with distributor MUVE.
Album release concert on the 12th of March 2004 at the Abart Club in Zurich
REDWOOD releases their first videoclip "lights"
March - July 2004 played over 30 shows, including 4 support shows for German band "Beatsteaks"

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The Rockets

There are at least six bands called The Rockets. 1) The band from which Neil Young formed Crazy Horse. The band began in 1962 as the doo wop group Danny & the Memories, with guitarist/singer Danny Whitten, and counting future Crazy Horse stalwarts Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina as members, the latter two are the only individuals present in every incarnation of the band. The group evolved through nascent San Francisco folk-psychedelia...

Optiv

Edd Holmes, better known in the Drum & Bass scene as Optiv, first started his music career in the early 90s working at Dance 2, his local record shop in Guildford. At about the same time he was learning his production skills at SAE in London and also found time to hold a weekend job of assistant engineer at Ministry of Sound nightclub. Having completed his studies, he became a main player for the Drum & Bass outfit Pressure Rise.

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Evelinn Trouble

Evelinn Trouble ist Switzerland's latest Fräuleinwunder. The Zürich girl thus has to fight against being compared to the likes of Sophie Hunger and Heidi Happy - because she does indeed like actual noise.

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Peacocks

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The Rackets

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