Tag: Spirit Fest

Super World Indie EP Of The Month: The Notwist – Ship

The SWIT equivalent of waking up on Christmas morning is receiving an email from Morr Music. This time it’s to tell us the about the return of German Indie Heavyweights The Notwist and their stunning new EP – Ship. The eponymously named lead single – featuring Saya, singer of Tenniscoats and co – member of…

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Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: The wonder of it all

Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 04.04.2020: Spirit Fest – “Mirage”. Wide-eyed, joyful, childlike, playful are all words that come to mind when you open “Mirage”, another wonderous song from Spirit Fest’s highly anticipated new LP “Mirage Mirage”, coming May 1st on the venerable Morr Music. The word “Mirage” comes to English via the…

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Super World Indie Tune Of The Day: Every thing is looking up

Super World Indie Tune Of The Day 24.03.2020: Spirit Fest – “Zenbu Honto (Every Thing Is Everything)”. Zenbu Honto (Every Thing Is Everything) is from SWIT favs Spirit Fest’s forthcoming LP “Mirage Mirage” – out May 15 on the inimitable Morr Music. This is another dreamy, joyful, uplifting tune from the avant-supergroup. As they grow…

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SWIT Swemiere: “Anohito” by Hochzeitskapelle

The German jazz collective Hoczeitskapelle are back with a new album: “If I Think About Love” which will be released on the 13th of September via Gutfeeling Records. The record is a collection of cover versions of some of their favourite songs. The band, a live-music loving troop made up of some of Germany’s indie…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #9

The music keeps coming faster than I can bat it away, so without further ado here’s a lot of great tracks that we’ve been listening to in July, now we’re off to try and catch up with August. Please do enjoy! Puzzle Muteson – Silver Swan (Bedroom Community) ‘Silver Swan’ taken from Puzzle Muteson’s new…

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SWIT Sounds Abound #7

Here we go, ten more super world indie tunes that tickled our fancy (is that still legal?) this week. Enjoy! The Innocence Mission -Look Out From Your Window (Bella Union) I’ve got a confession to make, I had never heard of The Innocence Mission until a couple of weeks ago when I stumbled across “Happy…

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SWIT’s Top 10 of 2017 chosen by SwitGerry.

Hi! Here’s my top tunes of 2017 that we’ve featured on SWIT. It’s been a real labour of love discovering all this great music and running the blog with Tom is an absolute pleasure. Thanks to all the artists,labels and promoters who’ve contributed to the site with their music,interviews and art work and we wish…

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SWIT’S Best Of 2017 Part 3

Part 3 of our 2017 Best Of- More tunes that made us swoon – immaculate Núria Graham – Cloud Fifteen (El Segell del Primavera) Sounding surprisingly Irish Plaisir de France & Barbara Carlotti – Herbes Mauves (Pschent) A definite purple patch Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason: Random Haiku Generator (Morr Music) Rise of the…

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Super World Interview Time: Markus Acher on Spirit Fest

Spirit Fest is an avant-pop supergroup built around acclaimed Japanese duo Tenniscoats. Featuring members of Notwist, Jam Money and Joasihno, their beautiful self-titled debut LP has just been released. In Winter 2016 long-time fan, Markus Acher (Notwist) jumped at the chance to invite Tenniscoats to a small apartment studio, together with Mat Fowler (Jam Money)…

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Get your early bird tickets for Spirit Fest here

Spirit Fest – Rain Rain Here’s the 2nd single from Spirit Fest called Rain Rain.Just realised we featured the 1st on SWIT too. You want to know why? Because these are amazing tracks folks. This has got a touch of the Go-Betweens about it for me. The album’s out in November and it features Tenniscoats…

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