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Baloise Session 2016 – Parov Stelar (AT) / Culture Club (UK): Back to the Future

Baloise Session, Blog, Concerts, Festivals, Music, Photography

Fall means a lot of things: change of temperature, grey days and layering of clothes. A big Yikes! for me. But fall also means that the hippie dances at festivals are replaced with indoor locations. Some of them are simple, others outstanding. Last week I was part of one of the most beautiful indoor festival settings I’ve seen so far. Baloise Session has me two times this year and let collide two different generations. But we all danced together in the end. The power of music. So kitsch but so true at the same time.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – ‘The Getaway’: California Smell

Blog, Music, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Releases

Sometimes the best things happen under the most unexpected circumstances. Just a few days ago, on June 17h, the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their 11th studio album. The whole making process was a bit more challenging than some previous works, but that’s maybe exactly why they came back showing us the best side of their funky Californian vibe, despite the 33+ years of musical career.

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Motel not Motel

Blog, Europe, Germany, Motel One, Munich, TRAVEL

Motels usually are defined as a place outside of urban centres, where motorists make their stops along the freeway for a night or two. Mostly famous for their L or U shape, low rise buildings and facing a wide parking lot, the first ones started to pop up in the US in the twenties, when traveling long distances became more popular and truckers were in need of a decent pit stop. Nothing really fancy here, the most luxurious thing would have been a pool at your front door or a little diner next to the registration office if you were lucky. Can you turn a motel into hip and fancy? Can you get hip with it? Yes. And this article here is the proof.

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Zermatt Unplugged 2016 – Hit My Heart. (part 2)

Blog, Festivals, Jack Savoretti, Music, Photography, Ronnie Scott's Allstars, Zermatt Unplugged

On the second festival day we had way more time to enjoy everything slowly in Zermatt. We decided to go uphill to the highest event stage located on 3030m over the sea level to hear some fine jazz and face fully to the sun shining down. And who had known… later on I would be very amazed by an artist I should have heard about a long long time already.

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M4MUSIC: Where Music Matters

art, Blog, Festivals, Kadebostany, Len Sander, M4Music, Music

Sometimes it really happens (shock!), I don’t need to travel far out of town to join in for a music festival. It’s kind of surreal for me just to be able to get to the venue in nearly 20 minutes: while the most festivals are happening spread all over the country, this time everything was concentrated in the middle of my hometown Zurich. And as I could see during these two days, the M4Music certainly is one of the most influencing festivals in this part of the country.

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Zermatt Unplugged 2016 – Australia’s Finest (part 1)

Blog, Festivals, Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum, Xavier Rudd, Zermatt Unplugged

April is a buzzing month, because slowly but surely, I’m able to wake up from my brief festival hibernation of three months and stick my ears wherever I can in order to enjoy familiar tunes plus discover some surprising new ones. Gosh, how I missed that! And what’s the best thing to open this year’s festival season properly? Exactly, heading on top of the mountain, for the awaited Zermatt Unplugged.

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RA Real Scenes: Take a Trip through the World of Electronic Music

Blog, Electronic Music, Music

A couple of years ago, Resident Advisor released a collection of short films between 20 and 30 minutes, picturing the electronic music scene in different cities worldwide. They were shown two years ago during Sónar by Day in Barcelona and as well last Fall at the Amsterdam Dance Event. These little masterpieces are a nice insight into a scene that constantly changes, lives and struggles, even for those who never really gave it a try.

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The Versailles side of Basel

architecture, Basel, Blog, Hotel, Swiss Deluxe Hotels, Switzerland, travel

Basel was for me for a long time a transit city only. Direct flights to my hometown Naples were quite rare, so I was travelling tons of times across this city just to hit the airport and be gone. I had to realize a while ago that Basel has a lot more to offer and isn’t that far away from in number of  events, cultural life and summer outdoor experiences compared to Zurich. I attended one of the most outstanding fall festivals here, which is Baloise Session, and my homebase for a night has been the most perfect fit in order to have unforgettable memories.

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Baloise Session 2015 – Philipp Poisel (D) / Paolo Nutini (SCO): From Heart to Soul

art, Baloise Session, Basel, Blog, Caustic Love, Concert, Live, Music, Paolo Nutini, Philipp Poisel, Songwriter, Switzerland

Switzerland may not be the tropical island surrounded by deep blue sea as I wish it was, but it has a lot to offer especially in terms of cultural events. For its tiny size compared to other European countries, it offers an extremely wide range of musical happenings all year round. Baloise Session is one of them.

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The Interview: Claudia Assef, Founder of the First DJ Museum Worldwide

ADE15, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Dance Event, Blog, Claudia Assef, DJ, DJ Museum, Interview, Museu do DJ, Music, travel

A couple of weeks ago I was at the Amsterdam Dance Event for the first time, which is one of the largest electronic music festivals in the world. This event is not only a networking platform for DJs, it’s also a great place to meet interesting people that are involved with dance music in different ways: producers, writers, photographers, directors and more. I was lucky enough to meet Claudia Assef on my press trip. I found her very fascinating: her knowledge, her way to talk aaand her amazing way to dress colorfully (which I sadly didn’t have the time to shoot). We bonded immediately and had great conversations at dinner about digital work and how electronic music evolved. Also, she is the founder of the first DJ Museum of the world, which I thought was a quite interesting idea, so I decided to do the first interview of my life with her in order to know more about the project.

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