Richard Ashcroft I Marlon Roudette I Ronnie Scott & Guest I Jan Biomqvist I Alex Clare

Zermatt Unplugged - Kaufleuten, Zurich:
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Tickets:
On sale Tuesday 25th of August
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Klubsaal:

Ronnie Scott's All Stars and Guest: Lisa Stansfield
http://lisa-stansfield.com

However Lisa didn’t entirely turn her back on music, in 2004 she released her sixth studio album, The Moment. Her greatest hits collection, Biography, reached number 3 in the charts and was subsequently certified platinum. Lisa also explored her love for jazz with a residency at Ronnie Scott’s, a recording of which was released on DVD.

2013 saw Lisa return to music with full force, selling out two tours across the UK and Europe. In February 2014 she released her critically acclaimed seventh album Seven – inspired by her love for soul and an ode to her teen years spent singing in clubs.









Richard Ashcroft
https://www.facebook.com/richardashcroft
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Ashcroft's solo debut, Alone with Everybody, followed in mid-2000. Later that fall, Ashcroft celebrated his solo success with a ten-date sold-out American tour. Two days prior to kickoff in Chicago, the entire tour was postponed due to Ashcroft's illness, and speculations were quickly linked to his previous drug-using behavior with the Verve. Those rumors were also wiped out quickly, and the U.S. dates were rescheduled for January 2001. The following year, Ashcroft returned with his soul-searching, spiritual second album, Human Conditions. Over the next few years, Ashcroft returned to living a quiet life with his family. He also inked a recording contract with Parlophone after his longtime label home, Hut, went bankrupt in mid-2004. Ashcroft's long-awaited third album, Keys to the World, was released in March 2006.
 
Shortly after the release of Keys to the World, rumors started circulating that the Verve were set to reunite. The band confirmed these rumors in 2007, playing a brief tour at the end of the year and then setting to work on a new album. Punningly entitled Forth, the record appeared in the summer of 2008 and was a reasonable success, yet the bandmembers didn't weather their reunion well, splitting once more in the summer of 2009. Ashcroft then formed the solo project RPA & the United Nations of Sound, whose debut appeared in the summer of 2010 in every territory but the U.S., where it was released in early 2011.





Jan Biomqvist and Band (Still Vor Talent)
http://www.janblomqvist.com/
after party

Jan Blomqvist is emotion, and through electronic music emotions are transfered more easily when the sound is warm and organic as opposed to canned and cold. His music definitely doesn't belong to the latter category because the sounds he uses are 100 % self-formed and perfectly underscore his distinct and secure voice, making his music alive and close.
For over 7 years he was the singer, bassist and songwriter of a band who rocked North Germany with a dark melodic grunge-rock sound.
After moving to Berlin and being inspired by her influences Jan found his passion in electronic music.
Today his sound can be described as a mixture of Radiohead, Muse, Bodi Bill, Stephan Bodzin and James Holden - a beautiful balancing act between melancholic, melodic electro-pop and euphoric minimal techno.
Jan Blomqvist is one of the most interesting and promising young artist in Berlin at the moment.
In the past Year Jan Blomqvist performed his Live Sets across the world, over 80 Gigs, especially in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Russia and New York.






Festsaal:

Alex Clare trio
https://www.facebook.com/alexclaremusic
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London, England musician Alex Clare grew up listening to his father’s jazz records, was drawn to blues and soul (Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder), and eventually drum‘n’bass and U.K. garage. Though Clare took up the trumpet and drums as a youngster, he eventually placed an emphasis on guitar and songwriting, playing open-mike nights with original material. A demo earned him a deal with the Island label in the U.K., and he was set up with producers Diplo and Switch, who contributed to the making of Clare’s first album, The Lateness of the Hour, released in July 2011. Despite the producers’ reputations for creating busy, bass-heavy club music, the album did place something of a spotlight on Clare’s soul-searching songwriting and deep, rich voice.







Marlon Roudette
www.marlonroudette.com
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Marlon Roudette’s new album Electric Soul is a modern classic of synthetic R&B. It is a true coming of age release from an established artist with a proven track record who has yet to receive the honor he deserves in his own land. This is the record with which he will achieve that. It is an album full of irresistible melodies and grooves, a collection of would-be hits, that nevertheless coheres like all the best long-players.
Named after Marlon Brando, he grew up influenced by soul and reggae, by artists of the calibre of Sam Cooke and Gregory Isaacs, Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes, Denis Brown, and Hip Hop Acts like Talib Kweli, The Roots, Mos Def, as you would expect from someone who spent much of his childhood and teenage years in the Caribbean. More recently, he has been turned on by the experimental R&B of Americans and Canadians such as Frank Ocean, Drake and The Weeknd, particularly the sombre sonics (only minus the contentious lyrics).
He wanted a similar quality of shiny darkness, of noir sophistication, brought to bear on his album, a follow-up to 2011’s Matter Fixed. Above all, he wanted it to sound cohesive, and so drafted in the producers he most admired in 2013: Tim Bran and Roy Kerr, responsible for London Grammar’s If You Wait.
The songs were co-written by a few key inspiring writers from Jamie Hartman (Christina Aguilera, Joss Stone, Jason Mraz) to Stuart Matthewman of Sade’s band. But whoever he worked with, Marlon knew what he wanted the music to express in the wake of its predecessor’s atmosphere of bleak heartbreak, which had been recorded in the aftermath of a terribly emotional breakup with a long-term girlfriend: a sense of someone emerging into the light after the torrid, tumultuous night before.
“The song themes are much more positive on this album than on Matter Fixed,” says Marlon, “even though it’s still quite dark and reflective.”
He cites as examples of this more upbeat mood the track Only Love and the “Rave&B” of first single When The Beat Drops Out, as well as Runaround and In Luck, “which are about being there for someone,” he says. “Come Around is about having a spur of the moment affair, and Body Language is the sort of sexy number I’m not used to doing. So on the whole, it’s more positive.
“The pop songs are cooler, the cool songs more poppy,” he furthers. “I got the balance right on this one. But then, this time I had someone to bring those opposites together: Tim and Roy.”








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