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The Swiss

About Me

The Swiss are a new energetic Nu-Jazz trio from Southampton

Their music is full of melodious guitar lines with electronic effects, funky bass grooves and filthy drum beats. The compositions push the boundaries of the current jazz realm and have received critical acclaim from the artists such as Neil Cowley:

"I love these guys, check out The Swiss!!!"

Their debut EP "Souvenir" is available, released in May 2008. Please feel free to leave a comment or message about it!.

Better still! Fraudulent Jazz is due to be released Spring 2009.....which is very soon. ..

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Member Since: 25/02/2006
Band Website: www.the-swiss.co.uk
Band Members: Steve Down
Simon Robinson
Andy Balls
Buy the Souvenir EP Here !
Influences: Cinematic Orchestra, Neil Cowley Trio, Miles Davis and Sigur Ros to name but a few...
Sounds Like: Filthy Jazz grooves with soaring melodies from the heart
Record Label: Chiwawa Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Isle of Wight Jazz Festival, Mixing...

Soooooo....Mixing is under way and boy, Marco is doing a fantastic job. Remember When now sounds even bigger than our teaser on the myspace page, I mean so big, I'm gonna have to go and buy a whole ne...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:06:00 GMT

A sneak preview

Sup people,We've decided to up three tracks of the coming "Fraudulent Jazz" album as a taster of what's coming your way. Enjoy!  
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:09:00 GMT

The next steps....

Hello all you myspace people! As some of you may (or may not) know, we've been working on our debut album! The recording phase took 4 days of sweat and coffee induced performance, mixed with&nb...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:23:00 GMT

Fraudulent Jazz?!? What the? - Explained...

Ok ok, so we've been slowly getting more and more questions about what this means and where it comes from.   Definition: Fraudulent jazz! is just a tongue in cheek expression against those who de...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:06:00 GMT

Neil Cowley and New Tunes

Hello there Swiss fans and myspace wanderers,We have posted some new tunes that were recorded a month back and mixed/mastered by the lovely Chris Taylor for Purple Square studios a few days ago. You c...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Website and EP

To celebrate the launch of their website, the intrepid trio have undergone a few changes.First, there's a strange doll-like figurine adourning the page.Second, the name has been shortened to 'The Swis...
Posted by on Thu, 03 May 2007 17:33:00 GMT

Residency! Yes yes

Flipping Swiss Family are in Residence at the mighty Talking Heads from the 9th until the 15th of June.Of course, when I say residency I kinda mean, it's recital week and Swiss are being the rhythm ro...
Posted by on Thu, 18 May 2006 21:55:00 GMT

Photos

A quick word or two.The marvellous picture that currently appears as 'cover art' for our songs is actually the work of one Dave Shearn and in return for my cheekiness at using the image I promised I w...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:21:00 GMT

Simon got 21'd

He's 21 and he plays freaking phat bass - this is one accomplished man!Simon Robinson received swiss chocolate from his grandparents, a swiss watch from his parents and a swiss army knife from his bro...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:21:00 GMT

New tunes!

New tunes people!These are tasty, but fairly rough sounding versions of tunes we like.My Favourite Things features some tasty Si Robinson action.Bright Size Life is a fun grooving tune.Four on the Flo...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:22:00 GMT