Label Suisse showcases new albums from Ele A to Louis Matute

Geneva guitarist Louis Matute releases his new album 'The world is stable now' on 16 October, on Cheptel Records, produced by Robin Girod.¹ RSI reports this from the Label Suisse festival in Lausanne, where Matute played the Grande Scène with his Large Ensemble.¹ RSI speaks of a stylistic 'shift'.¹

Label Suisse takes place every two years and is organised by RTS; according to RSI, it features more than seventy free concerts at nine venues.¹ The next edition is in 2028.¹

According to RSI, several acts brought recent albums with them:¹

• Ele A opened on Friday on the Grand Scène with songs from '26' (EMI/Universal). The rapper is from Ticino.
• Kadebostany played the fifth album, 'The Outsider', with a new line-up.
• Impure Wilhelmina, whose story began in Geneva's squat scene in the mid-1990s, spoke to RSI about 'Le Sanglot', the band's first album entirely in French.
• Lone Assembly from Geneva played songs from 'Knots & Chains' (Irascible).
• Tam-Bor, the project of Ticino drummer Giacomo Bastianelli, played the album 'Intense & ciao'.

Swiss Music Export announced an export workshop in French for Saturday, 19 September, at the Casino de Montbenon, with representatives of export offices from Canada and Belgium.²