It’s still dark outside, but there’s a party going on - full of trippy lights, glitter and coins that promise you the time of your life. Since the duo Elio Ricca was formed, they’ve played more basements across Switzerland than you could imagine, collecting clothespins and mold infections instead of cash and confetti - but also a lot of experience. They embrace and glorify these depths on their albums Another Way To Get High 2016 and Lovely Underground 2019. In 2022, they’ve ascended from the undergrounds and finally made it to the surface with their album Luna Park .
 
The two have a thing for blasting guitar riffs, smashing drums and trippy, melancholic synth lines. Elio Ricca are well known for their extravagant videos and their fondness of DIY. Everything you hear and most of what you see is recorded and produced by themselves. Guitars, drums, synths and loads of effect pedals are the ingredients to their massive live sound, which seems to be produced by a group of five, instead of just the two of them. Whether on big festival stages or in obscure basements, Elio Ricca always manage to seduce the audience with their distinctive riffs, danceable rhythms and the lead singer’s incorruptible voice. 
 
«If we were a movie, we would probably be an eclectic low-budget action drama, with a few sex scenes and no happy end.»

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BRIGHT – eine Band voller Liebesgeständnisse für optimistische Melancholie. Die vier St. Galler bringen seit 10 Jahren mit ihren Songs zum Ausdruck, was dem Publikum selbst auf der Zunge liegt und im Herzen schlummert. Ihr nachdenklicher Pop/Rock ist der ewige Soundtrack des Lebens.

2010 in St. Gallen als a Phobic Smile gegründet, schlagen Apologist mit With Our Heads In The Clouds And The Stars In Our Eyes jetzt ein neues Kapitel auf. 
Mit Ihrer neuen EP streifen die drei verlorenen Burschen aus dem Osten nun definitiv die Fesseln der Genreregeln- und Grenzen ab, um etwas neues zu schaffen, was gehört werden muss, um verstanden zu werden. 

Wenn rohe Punk-Riffs mit Pop-Hooks in die Kiste steigen, sich aggressive Screams mit versöhnlichem Gesang streiten und brachiale Breakdowns mit schrillen Synthesizern freundschaftlich die Hände schütteln, dann entfaltet sich das ganze Arsenal an Erfahrung, Verzweiflung, Glück, und Leidenschaft der drei jungen Vorstadtbuben. 

Mit dem ambitionierten Ziel, die Tristesse des grauen Alltags hinter sich zu lassen, schreiten Apologist mit neuem Mut und Musik den Bühnen dieser Welt entgegen.

The electro duo ‘Missue’, founded in the snowy Alps in November 2011, virtuously masters the art of creating sweeping journeys through the subconscious and at the same time invites creative and free expression of one’s own body language. The synthetic cosmos sounds organic and lively like an electronic chamber ensemble. The shimmering clouds of sound dissipate and re-materialise in completely new spaces. Missue paints a picture with its lofty spheres of sound, mountains, and valleys in which beats can move with drive, pulsing, and hovering. Members Atilla Bayraktar and Philipp Gnägi have known each other since secondary school, and have always had a musical bond. Inspired by the magic of nature, they want to transform this free, wild, and pure energy with sounds and noises. Missue productions move around unpredictably between electronic, minimal, trip hop, IDM, ambient, and glitch. In spite of and because of that, they have an unmistakable and unique sound. The boys want to drive this further and savour it. Just in the way that nature always finds new doors and avenues and evolution is a natural process.

Contact: info@missuemusic.com

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