#swiss indie

[ahauntingclub]

Album of The Week – 01/01/24

Löwenzahnhonig (Fai Baba, Long Tall Jefferson, Paul Märki) - Löwenzahnhonig (LP) Label/Cat #: Insel Gruppe

[destroyedchild]

[attico36]

Identity System for Pianoterra Italian indie band based in Salerno Design by Attico36

[k3niv3z]

☄︎ *. ⋆ 🔭 ⋆·˚ ༘

i am lost and forgotten, falling from the sky

[poprocklyrics]

I hope you're as happy as you're pretending

Screaming Infidelities, Dashboard Confessional

[joanofarc]

cactus farm, the mommyheads (1992, 2022).

you would understand me more if i was a glass of water

[reallyradrecs]

halloween 2016 a time of spiritual healing my hands were freezing holding your keychain trying to sustain the feeling of

picking out the good stuff like holding hands in your truck and skipping class to think of tattoo ideas and bailing on college

romanticize the warm hug of cheap beer and bad drugs two skeletons in love tired of the cold but too scared of leaving

‘tis the season of drunken confession wearing a mask is an honest profession rooftop meetingsteenage feelings realizing I can’t tell if you’re still breathing picking out the good stuff like holding hands in your truck and skipping class to think of tattoo ideas and bailing on college romanticize the warm hug of cheap beer and bad drugs two skeletons in love tired of the cold but too scared of leaving

[indietapes]

Swiss Portrait - Worries (Indie Rock)

🕑 1 min / Text: Adrian Release Date: May 14, 2024 Folks, Swiss Portrait is back! I wrote a couple of reviews here on IndieTapes about the talented Edinburgh-based artist, so his latest release 'Worries' is definitely another great addition to our playlist. If you're into dream pop and lofi rock, make sure to check out his new music! Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/6cNkgWg7NO8XebRZTrIcom Follow: https://www.instagram.com/swiss.portrait/ ✔️ Available on our Indie Playlist on Spotify.

[karolineyesterdaye]

Gentle and amazing reminder that Promise has always been rooting for me to WIN ! It never has to be expounded upon. Its a recognition that is birthed from natural respect and understanding. Music is also the SOURCE.

[yellowsnow77]

Swiss Portrait - The Crippling Pain of Happiness

Swiss Portrait fue una de las sorpresas musicales más interesantes de 2022. ‘Safe House’, el que fue su EP del año pasado, me pareció una pasada y, hoy en día, sigo recurriendo bastante a él cuando quiero chutarme una buena dosis de indie-pop ensoñador. Porque hay que decir que, Michael Kay Terence, que es el hombre que se esconde detrás de este proyecto, es todo un experto en crear este tipo de…

[fangomusic]

Kerala Dust, Violet Drive

New music Wednesday

In 2016, Kerala Dust was founded in London, but they've always operated out of their studio in Berlin. With additional recordings in the Swiss Alps the second album, Violet Drive, blends many inspirations from psychedelic rock, blues, and techno. Satisfyingly their sound is developing towards a more analogue, hypnotic sound that is driven by instruments rather than digital enhancing.

[lemon16]

[ @spaceumbredoggos ] Just aces or just aros can vote too! Or really any aspec ppl.

if you want to, rb for more votes! [:

[nicohischierz]

a street interview: mason mctavish

tagging: @ivy-34, @francesfarhadi, @hzstry8, @cixrosie, @itsnotgray, @estapa94, @trevs-swiftie, @heartz4hischif you want to join the taglist let me know!!

mason was walking through the mall with trevor and jamie when he got stopped by a girl holding a microphone.

"hi i have a podcast and this weeks theme is sports so I was wondering if you guys would be interested in answering a question on one of america's major sports," you spoke.

"what do you mean?" trevor asked, looking between his friends.

"well, i'll ask you a question from either the nhl, nba or mlb and if you guys answer it you can win a prize if you're interested," you explained.

the three boys looked at each other and nodded.

you turned to your friend and started rolling the camera. “okay choose a category, nhl, nba or mlb,”

trevor answered first “nhl.”

“the nhl is comprised of 32 teams with 7 of them being canadian. can you name the 7 canadian teams in the nhl?” you asked.

“toronto maple leafs!” mason exclaimed first.

the three then huddled into a group to think of the rest. “what about cole’s team?”

“montreal canadiens!”

“hey isn’t hughes in canada?” jamie asked

“omg the vancouver canucks!” trevor picked up on quickly.

“you guys have a minute to name the other four,” you prompted.

trevor looked at you appalled “hey, you never said it was timed!” he argued. you shrugged at him “now you know,”

“edmonton oilers and calgary flames,” mason added.

jamie and trevor tried their hardest to think of the last two teams but failing short they looked to mason.

“ottawa senators and umm i think the winnipeg jets,” he added.

you smiled at mason and nodded. “congratulations you guys are correct! and you’ve got a little prize. the three of you are the owners of the coffee hours podcast new merchandise and these tickets to the long beach indy car grand prix!” you handed the three their prize.

mason put his beanie on and smiled at the camera as trevor inspected everything.

you signalled to your friend to switch the camera off before turning to the three boys again. “you guys don’t have to keep the merch if you don’t want to but please use the tickets. my cousin gave them to me and i don’t know if i want to go,” you explained.

“i think my sister listens to your podcast,” trevor spoke. you smiled, your eyes twinkling at the realisation that people actually liked your content.

mason thought it was adorable.

"can i get your instagram," mason blurted.

jamie and trevor snickered at the boy as you gave him a warm smile. "sure," you held out your hand for his phone and put in your username.

it took mason three days to gain the confidence to message you. the boy stared at your profile for a whole hour before trevor forced him to say something.

"look she's half swiss and you were born in Switzerland, make conversation about that," trevor suggested.

mason shrugged. there wasn’t much to go on with that conversation starter and he knew deep down trevor also knew that.

zoe.fraser shared a video

zoe.fraser: you’re a hockey player?

“she messaged me!” mason exclaimed showing trevor and jamie his phone.

at that time, trevor’s girlfriend walked in as the boys discussed how mason should respond.

“i think you should send a shrugging emoji” - trevor

“maybe say you weren’t sure if she was a fan and didn’t think it was necessary to mention” - jamie

“girls like it when you’re a bit cocky” - trevor.

trevor’s girlfriend promptly hit her boyfriend over the head and asked mason for his phone.

“holy shit, that’s the host of the coffee hours podcast. i love her content, i always listen to her in my car,” she explained.

“mils, can you help mason?” jamie asked.

millie smiled and formulated a response.

masonmctavish: guilty 😅

zoe.fraser: well then i think you guys cheated

“you were in one of her video?!” millie exclaimed. trevor nodded and asked his girlfriend to continue her work.

masonmctavish: how about i make it up to you?

zoe.fraser: are you asking me out on a date?

masonmctavish: only if you say yes

zoe.fraser: friday 9:30, after your game

masonmctavish: you’ve got yourself a date

mason hugged millie before she moved over to trevor. millie patted the boys shoulder before settling in next to her boyfriend.

“i cant believe you met her. i would actually die and that’s saying a lot cause i’ve met fernando alonso and sebastian vettel,” millie mumbled.

trevor squeezed his girlfriends cheeks “i’ll give you the sweater she gave us. she said it was her first official merch,”

millie kissed her boyfriend before turning to mason. “you better not screw this date up,” she threatened lightly.

mason nodded, gulping hard.

that threat did not help his nerves. at all

[moiraimyths]

You may or may not have already answered this, but my brain is swiss cheese: Is there a reason you've decided to release the routes in parts?

Each route in The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) is shaping up to be around 110k words long, so it will realistically take us several years to complete the game in full — especially since Moirai Myths is not any member of the team's full time occupation, given it does not presently make enough money for one livable income, let alone five. Thus, by the time the game is fully playable, it is distinctly possible that no one will remember us (or those that do may assume our project was one of many indie games to never see the light of day post-Kickstarter), and thus nobody buys the final product. This would ostensibly put an end to any possibility of sustainably creating new games in this fashion, i.e. as a completely independent company, owned and controlled by its creative leads/not beholden to the meddling of investors. At the end of the day, if NDM amounts to a very expensive hobby, then it would have to be a one-off venture. We are as constrained by our material conditions (needing to eat, pay rent, etc.) as anyone else is. 😔

Conversely, by serializing the route releases, we 1) increase the odds of maintaining relevancy/hype for the duration of our development period via establishing/growing a fandom, and we 2) gain access to another revenue stream via early access purchases of the game, which will either go right back into NDM's development, help with marketing expenses, or — in a "we go super viral" scenario — the main team could maybe start drawing incomes. That'd be nice.

Of course, we understand some players are wary of playing unfinished games, but in a lot of ways we feel what we're doing with the scheduling of NDM — a visual novel — is really no different than the scheduling of an actual book series, or TV show, etc. Since we knew from the start that we would need to serialize, we plotted the game out in such a way that players would have a lot to chew on in between releases, particularly from a plot theorizing and character dynamics perspective. The whole NDM team has been involved in fandom in some way or another in the past, and in fact several of us first met through our participation in fandom. We sincerely feel that consuming serialized media with a thriving fandom culture just hits different, and it's a wonderful way to find your people! We're already quite fond of our Discord community (just shy of 300 members!), and would love to see more public engagement / community building in general. It's just more fun to yap about the media you like as a collective, in our opinion.