After Estragon last month, we’d like to wish a warm welcome to our friends and partners from Romania, Control Club! They are joining us to curate this month’s selection. We’d like to also congratulate Personal Trainer, selected as Band of the Month of March! Personal Trainer are THE Dutch indie (pop) rock band. Between spontaneous interactions and organised chaos, this band creates a fun pop energy, echoing a big band. Formed around singer/songwriter Willem Smit, Personal Trainer is a collective made up of artists from other bands such as Canshaker Pi, Pip Blom, Bull, Steve French, The Klittens, and many others.
The selection also includes D.E.N.I.S. and his Romanian rock, psyche-world music with Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, the electro dream-pop vibes of Elizabete Balčus, and the rebetiko of Johan Papaconstantino. We’ll go from Denmark with Lowly and their pop folk to Norway with Siv Jakobsen and her indie-folk. If you like black metal, you will like The Canyon Observer from Slovenia, but if you’re feeling more hip-hop then Varnish La Piscine from Switzerland will be perfect for you. Finally, don’t forget about Niandraz and her ethereal electronic stylings from Bulgaria!
Discover Personal Trainer, our Band of the Month
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
“ Bridging Berlin and Istanbul with psych folk and Anatolian heart ”
Elizabete Balčus
“ A cosmic electronic art pop fairy from Latvia ”
Johan Papaconstantino
“ A French newcomer in a melting-pot of rebetiko, electro and rap ”
Varnish La Piscine
“ Swiss craftsmanship applied to worldly hip hop ”
