Photos by Patrick Principe
NEWS - META MARIE LOUISE
CONCERT SERIES 3.0 - THE ART OF IMPROVISED MUSIC
In 2026 Meta Marie Louise continues their concert series (3.0) at Atomic Café in Biel-Bienne showcasing artists from all over Europe and the US. Concerts are held every first Wednesday of the following months:
CONCERT SERIES 3.0 - THE ART OF IMPROVISED MUSIC
In 2026 Meta Marie Louise continues their concert series (3.0) at Atomic Café in Biel-Bienne showcasing artists from all over Europe and the US. Concerts are held every first Wednesday of the following months:
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March 4, 2026 with Rea (Avant Garde Trip Hop) April 1, 2026 with Sirup Gagavil (Experimental Drone Rock) May 6, 2026 with Flo Kaufmann (Mechatronic Art Grooves) |
October 7, 2026 TBA November 4, 2026 TBA December 2, 2026 TBA |
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CONCERTS 2026
with Henry Love March 1, 2026 Magazin with Marc Stucki April 11, 2026 Sonarraum U64 with sibyl July 5, 2026 Sommer Fest Gurzelen |
Meta Marie Louise is featured on Metonic Cycle (12" Vinyl Compilation, Limited Edition) with their song Contact Kid featuring Marc Stucki.
UNSIGNED ONLY MUSIC AWARDS
The song The Broadcaster by Meta Marie Louise and Soweto Kinch has been announced as a Unsigned Only Music Awards - Runner Up 2025 (Category Instrumental)
The song The Broadcaster by Meta Marie Louise and Soweto Kinch has been announced as a Unsigned Only Music Awards - Runner Up 2025 (Category Instrumental)
Meta Marie Louise conjures a vast and unpredictable universe, one that feels both organic and otherworldly, as if it sprouted from a forgotten garden at the edge of a dream. What begins as delicate texture can suddenly fracture into walls of harsh noise, raw and electrified, crashing like a storm against glass. Yet just as quickly, the chaos dissolves into spacious ambient currents, drifting and weightless, inviting the listener to float in a haze of suspended time.
Within this ever-shifting terrain, contrasts are not opposites but companions. Metallic clatter melts into velvet drones. Glitching frequencies spiral upward before folding into subterranean pulses.
As the journey deepens, rhythm begins to surface - subtle at first, like distant footsteps echoing in a cavern. Gradually it gathers force, locking into groove-driven psychedelic beats that pulse with hypnotic insistence. Basslines coil and uncoil like serpents of light, while melodies ripple overhead in kaleidoscopic arcs.
It invites the brave to lose themselves inside it - to wander, to be unsettled, to be soothed, and ultimately to be carried forward by its restless, radiant momentum.
Meta Marie Louise - Manuel Engel, fender rhodes and synths and Kevin Chesham, drums has been founded in 2010 and works as a vessel to advance improvised music. The group draws in pop and rock elements into their improvisations which lead to collaborations with different singers, instrumentalists and poets such as Ana Igluka (Nantes, FR), Hans Koch (Bienne, CH), David Binney (New York, US), Rea Dubach (Bienne, CH), Nativ (Bern, CH), Fork Burke (New York, USA), Soweto Kinch (Birmingham, UK), Marc Stucki (Bern, CH), Napoleon Maddox (Cincinnati, US), Big Zis (Zürich, CH) among others.
REFERENCES
"Weltklasse!"
Barbara Meyer Cesta, Edition Haus am Gern
"Un moment au rythme détonant et à l'énergie exceptionnelle!"
Valéry Monnet, Programmation La Ferme-Asile
"Thank you so much for this concert - it was the bomb, it really got me in my bones. I was carried away - in a way that doesn't happen so often at concerts. You are a fantastic duo – dynamite!"
Paquita Maria, Singer Songwriter
DISCOGRAPHY
2025 Metonic Cycle
with Marc Stucki - Compilation / Metonic Records
2022 Meta Marie Louise
with Max Usata + Sirup Gagavil (vinyl 1)
+ Dominik Baumgartner (vinyl 2) / Metonic Records
2015 Overdrive
with Ana Igluka / Metonic Records
2013 Cultural Free Zone
with Marc Stucki - Compilation / Landbouwbelang
2012 Sunny Spots
with Max & Momo / Metonic Records
2011 Pestalozzi's Favorite Chair
with Hans Koch - Compilation / Metonic Records
2025 Metonic Cycle
with Marc Stucki - Compilation / Metonic Records
2022 Meta Marie Louise
with Max Usata + Sirup Gagavil (vinyl 1)
+ Dominik Baumgartner (vinyl 2) / Metonic Records
2015 Overdrive
with Ana Igluka / Metonic Records
2013 Cultural Free Zone
with Marc Stucki - Compilation / Landbouwbelang
2012 Sunny Spots
with Max & Momo / Metonic Records
2011 Pestalozzi's Favorite Chair
with Hans Koch - Compilation / Metonic Records
NEW ALBUM COMING SOON 2027
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META MARIE LOUISE CELEBRATES IMPROVISED GROOVE MUSIC META MARIE LOUISE RECORDED SIX VINYLOMAT STUDIO SESSIONS WITH DIFFERENT GUESTS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE. DURING THESE SESSIONS MULTIPLE TAKES WERE RECORDED / CUT "DIRECT TO VINYL". A PURE ANALOG-ANALOG-ANALOG PRODUCTION: MICROPHONE, MASTER, VINYL CUT - DIRECT TO DISC SPECIAL GUESTS: NAPOLEON MADDOX (VOCALS) / HANS KOCH (CLARINET) / SIBYL (VOCALS + FX) / SOWETO KINCH (SAX, SAMPLER + VOCALS) / SIRUP GAGAVIL (GUITAR + FX) / ANA IGLUKA (VOCALS + FX) |
Meta Marie Louise - Marc Stucki
Meta Marie Louise - Napoleon Maddox
Meta Marie Louise - Henry Love
Meta Marie Louise
Meta Marie Louise - Soweto Kinch
Meta Marie Louise - Ana Igluka
Meta Marie Louise - Max Usata