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Cowboys From Hell

Fresh, for now, as a progressive rock market band, the Swiss trio named COWBOYS FROM HELL is yet an interesting-looking new group, with their debut album (recorded in 2007 but released only up in the first months of 2008) sounding pretty slick. Combining the ideal of entertaining fresh music with those of funk-jazz sessions, creative band strumming and deep, at times improvised, rock, the result of their music and activity goes overall the same...

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Gardening at Night

(english version below) I Gardening at Night sono una band di Torino nata nel 2006 a seguito dello scioglimento degli Squirrel. A Michele Sarda, Daniele Molino e Marcello Oliviero (chitarra+voce, basso e batteria degli Squirrel) si aggiungono Enrico Viarengo (già chitarrista dei Green Woodpecker) e, dagli ultimi mesi del 2008, Marco Gottero (già bassista dei Somewhere Between).
Il gruppo si ispira al pop rock americano dei R.E.M.

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Heinz Holliger

Heinz Holliger (born May 21, 1939) is a Swiss oboist and composer. He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He also studied composition with Pierre Boulez. He took first prize in the International Competition in Geneva in 1959. He has become one of the world's most celebrated oboists, and numerous works have been written for him. He began teaching at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1966.

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IMPERIAL TIGER ORCHESTRA

Imperial Tiger Orchestra are Raphaël Anker (tp), Alexandre Rodrigues (rhodes, key), John Menoud (sax), Cyril Moulas (b), Luc Détraz (per) and Julien Israelian (d), from Geneva, Switzerland. The orchestra's repertoire consists of revamped remakes from the Golden Age of modern Ethiopian music (1969-1978).Visiting each of the foremost artists of period in turn, the orchestra blends Ethiopian rhythms with their own influences. Playing music that is usually sung, this entirely instrumental group emphasizes the dark and hypnotic grooves of the rhythmn as well as the polished, ethereal brass themes.

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Fauve

Geneva-born Nicolas Julliard decided to become Fauve in 1999. His previous non-career moves include various participations in unknown bands such as Grammar & Use and Illford. Fauve explores the margins of songwriting, blending pop, minimal electro, Broadway melodies, easy-listening and bossa-nova. French magazine "Les Inrockuptibles" awarded him a spot in their annual compilation CD "Ceux qu'il faut découvrir". That was in 2004, when Fauve was known as Sombre. Since then, Fauve has collected enough material to produce his first album, released in spring 2006 by Gentlemen Records.

Fauve on Last.fm.

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Frantic

there are 6 bands with the name Frantic: 1. a swiss indie band:
an autumn day in the year 2000: four youths met spontaneously for a jam-session. what began with occasional playing of cover versions for pure fun, developed soon to a serious band-project with regular practice-sessions. the guitarists mike sarbach and michael gysel discovered early their talent in songwriting. all bandmembers have their own music-interests, what led gently to the typical sound of frantic.

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Kol Simcha

Kol Simcha is a band playing mostly klezmer and jazz music, founded in 1986 in Basel, Switzerland. It is composed of
* Michael Heitzler, clarinet
* Ariel Zuckermann, flute
* Daniel Fricker, bass
* Olivier Truan, piano
* David Klein, drums In 2003, the band has been renamed The World Quintet, together with a new musical repertoire.

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