Update 2: Alles Post- MusikFest! (plus some awful paintings)
For this article, I would like to make another announcement for my plans for 2026. I had hoped to have combined it with the second part of the 2026 year in review (first part of the review with the first update concerning the blog here) but time-wise it didn’t work out. Instead, you get the added bonus of some really bad paintings.
Update number two:
For the second update, I am very proud to announce that Reverb Dream will be teaming up with Alles Post- MusikFest! for its fourth edition in 2026 at Dynamo/Werk 21 in Zurich on Saturday 30th May.
The line-up and further details will be announced soon. This year, we opted for a line-up of four bands, from different regions across Switzerland, and we aim to make the festival more interactive to bring the community together even more.
A lot of exciting bands from the Swiss underground music scene have played at the independent festival already, including Fomies, Bubka, Umoora, Lost in a Detail, Zuckerbecker, Winter in Deutschland and the Shattered Mind Machine to name a few. Having helped out for the three previous years, it is great to see Alles Post- MusikFest! growing and becoming an established festival - there was a lot of positive feedback and enthusiasm from bands to be a part of the line-up.
I have known Gerardo, the organiser, for a few years now - we have been to many concerts together, jammed and discussed the music scene in Switzerland in detail. At the beginning of the blog, he also assisted with ideas for the name and logo for Reverb Dream. We hope that by combining forces that we can make this year even more special and that we can build on its success.
Hope to see you there!
Awful paintings:
Over the Christmas holidays, I did quite a lot of arts and crafts with my daughter including a lot of painting. Not knowing what to paint, I thought of putting on an album and trying to replicate the album cover.
Over two sessions, I ended up with four paintings consisting of three album covers and a band logo. Even though they weren’t exceptional - my skills were as limited as the colours which were available - I didn’t think much about them except to share them with a few people.
After looking at the collection, I noticed that each artwork (I use the term loosely) had a deeper meaning behind it. In this article, you get to see my horrible attempts of replicating pictures but more importantly read about the stories behind the background.
This album brings back a lot of memories of the blog so far. I met Ueli by accident at the Gotthard Bar after the Giant Moa performance at the Kombinat Festival and he would go on to be one of the first interviews for the blog. I remember sitting on the sofa with the sun shining through having listened to the album a lot and working on the interview. I would go on to the record release party of Time And Space which was a great evening at the Waxy. A bit later, I would catch his other band, Dawns Mystery for an unforgettable evening at an unlikely music venue in the neighbourhood, the Bierstube Scheidegg before the circle would be completed a few months later with really wonderful performance from Far Coast as the opening act at the Kombinat Festival in 2025.
I found myself going back to the album every few months and it still feels just as fresh as the first few listens. Moving On has worked its way into YouTube’s algorithm and has been getting a lot of plays lately too. I’ve always been a fan of the design of the artwork and it felt like the ideal starting point for my replications.
Jëkoff Sedofski - Non sono un robot_
It is hard to say how many memories this album contains with so many new ones happening quite often too. We often meet at the rehearsal space, La Cueva, been to concerts across Switzerland (including Nyon, Muotathal) as well as a road trip to Strasbourg, and too many other moments to remember.
I have seen the band, including Gerardo from the Alles Post- MusikFest!, many times live across Zurich and have always enjoyed their music since coming across their YouTube channel a few years ago. One of my favourite songs is definitely El paso2, which appeared on the Spring 2024 Playlist and I also joined the band on stage to play the song at the Mars Bar in August 2025.
The decision to add the glitter to the painting didn’t come from me.
I first came across The Last Wolf through the interview with Aria Konishi who mixed the album, Another Kind of Blue, and would go on to join the project on bass. I made a music video playlist and really enjoyed the singles before listening to the album as a whole and it did not disappoint, it’s a very solid album. I picked up a copy when I met Mathieu in Carouge at the beginning of the summer holidays and the debut album, Those Days Are Gone, will also remind me of wandering through the streets of Montpellier on the journey home.
My (lack of) skills preventing me from doing one of the two album covers, so I went for the logo. I would find out later that it is a parody of the Sun Records logo.
I really enjoy the atmosphere (ambiance?) created across the album by the instrumental band, it’s a hard-hitting and unrelenting album. In terms of concept and artwork, it also stands out quite easily, the colour scheme stays in mind long after looking at the cover and I felt it would be quite fun to replicate it. The lack of white paint didn’t help me out much though.
I bought a copy from HeavyWeightMusic, after recognising the artwork in a short video going through the new arrivals, and the shop has played a big part in my life since I arrived in Zurich. Dan, the owner, is one of the first people I have known in the city, even if we met up for the first time three years later at the festival at Rote Fabrik. It is strange to imagine it no longer existing in mid-February. Having been mainly an online shop, it did have a physical location near the Langstrasse for a couple of years, and a really great meeting place. I can think of a few interviews from the blog already where we are urged to support music and culture before it’s too late.
(And not to finish on a downer, I was also allowed to bring my headphones and choose some music for an operation to remove two wisdom teeth, and I chose the album. Unfortunately, I couldn’t crank up the music too loud as I had to listen to the instructions from the dentist. In any case, when I think of the two teeth being pulled out, I also think of this album).
Related articles:
Update:
Alles Post- MusikFest! (2024):
Far Coast:
The Last Wolf:
Playlists: