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OUR CD IS OUT SINCE SATURDAY 12TH! GO TO

www.myspace.com/autourdesophie


 

Listen to 3 brand new songs!!!!!!

 

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thank you Maria for your support! 

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thanks Gary for your support!


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Thank you CY LU for your support!!!


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thank you ewoody for your important support!

 

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Thank you Marc for your support!

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This week (28th of January till 2nd of February) we are back in the studio for the Mix of our album!

 

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THANK YOU MISSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thank you Samu, and Victor and Pietro for supporting us!

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    Not to be missed, Swiss Sellaband gig with Autour de sophie,             Lorraine Jones, Radius and Equation on the 25th of January, ONO     club, BERN, Switzerland!  A HUGE Thank You to Lorraine for organising the event!


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         thank you Sommersby Team (Phil) for believing in us!


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         thank you biblinsky for your support!!!!!!!!!! :-)

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CHECK OUT THE NEW SONG! LITTLE WHITE FRECKLES....

I wrote it while looking at the snow falling down through my window, one cold winter in Jura, Switzerland....!

We recorded it live with Raoul, the pianist from Autour de Sophie. The song is not "finished" yet! I'll re-record some parts of the voice and we'll have a string arrangement made for it!

Hope you enjoy!

soph'

 

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             NEW VIDEO: 'still' live at the Montreux Jazz Festival!

             NEW BELIEVER:
welcome to Piko, who very generously
             supports Autour de Sophie! A warm THANK YOU :)


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        check out our BLOG for news and updates on Autour de Sophie!

  • Bio: 'Autour de Sophie' means Around Sophie, so it's about Sophie and her 4 band companions. Sophie is their voice and they've kept bumping into each other on various stages within various funk, jazz and pop projects before realising they really got well together and settling down to the current setting last year.
  • Sounds like: Well, with such a mixed background, we love our fusion of our jazzy background, pop influences with a funky twist... What do you think?
  • Tracks: We've got already 12 own tracks which we have been trying out on our audience in a few gigs since last Autumn, 4 of which will be recorded for a clean version in June. In the meantime, we uploaded here some live mini-disc recordings (sorry for this, but you got the idea!)
  • Band members: Sophie Kummer (vocals), Raoul Baumann (keys), Sylvain Grimm (Drums), Alex Allflatt (Bass) and Nicolas Heiniger (Flute). You'll get to meet the whole lot of them very soon here, but in the meantime have a look at www.myspace.com/autourdesophie for more pics and stuff...
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    By becoming one of our early Believers, you'll support our process of recording our first CD, which revenue will be shared between Autour de Sophie and the Believers and paid as a dividende to each Believer! Don't miss this opportunity to actively design tomorrow's music landscape!

    www.sellaband.com/autourdesophie
    www.myspace.com/autourdesophie
    www.autourdesophie.ch

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Thu, 17th January 2008, by Soph
Oh my god, it's 2008! The winter is passing at light speed and I'm sorry to realise that I have been shy again on the blog front.. It's really difficult for me to communicate on our music, or to perceive it as a 'product' to 'promote', but it shouldn't be that difficult within Sellaband, since we're all friends in here! I promise to try and beat that ô so typical Swiss shyness and humility and go expose ourselves out there!
So, this is just a quick one to say that we can't wait for the gig in Bern on the 25th! A HUGE thank you in advance to fellow SAB artist Lorraine Jones for organising what promises to be an amazing night! We hope to see some of you there, please come and say hello!
love, Soph

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Tues, 21th August 2007, by Soph

Hi! we just came out of the exhausting week in the recording studio!

It's been a great experience and I hope I can soon upload some of our new songs on sellaband! for the moment you can check out the pictures we took during the week!

love, Soph

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Mon, 6th August 2007, by Soph

Hello to everyone who is back from Hollidays, hope you had a great time!

Just a note to let you know that we will be in the recording studio from Next Sunday on....

enjoy the sunny Summer days of August!

love, soph 

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Thurs, 2 August 2007, by Soph

check out our version of one of my songs "Again", recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival on the 16th of July!

Discover a new song "Tempest in a Shrubbery" written by the flute player of the band, Nicolas Heiniger and also recorded live in Montreux!

love, soph

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Fr, 20 July 2007 by Soph

We want to share with you how great it's been for us to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival last Monday! Even though it was early (9pm) and really sunny outside, enough people came to see and hear us!

we had excellent feed backs, and were encouraged! look at the new pictures uploaded!

the evening was great, we got to go to the Miles Davis Hall and see Scofield, Medesky, Martin and Wood project (great project!).

After the concerts we were back to the backstage of the Montreux Jazz Café (where we played) and Prince (who played at the Stravinsky Auditorium the same night) went to jam there... (what a lesson of groove!....)

well, we had a great time!

take care, love, Soph

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Sat, 30 June 2007 by Soph

Here's already one song that I wrote, it's called "Still". We recorded it live during our pre-production session a few weeks ago. It's a first "draft" version for you to comment and give a feedback on.

We'll have the opportunity to record some bits and pieces in a studio in August and are still in the process of fine-tuning the structures for our songs. Please let us know what you think of the 'work-in-progress' songs we will be uploading in rotations the next few weeks, every input is much appreciated!

have fun on sellaband

love, soph'

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Sat, 23 June, 2007 by Soph
Here we are again! Next friday you'll hear some new songs on our sellaband page! We want to know what you think, please let us know your inputs!  :-).

we had a concert last week and the audience's been really enthousiastic with our new stuff, played in a more "pop way" than before, so we are really encouraged to go ahead with autourdesophie....

Our next coming show will take place during the famous "Montreux jazz festival"...  So if you want to hear us in a more jazzy way, see you at the "montreux jazz café" on Monday, the 16th of July!

thank you for your support!

love, soph

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Tue. 15 May, 2007 by Sophie
Hi everybody! we are not giving a lot of news these days, and that's because we are rehearsing some new songs... we will record some stuff that we will let you hear in a few weeks!!!

so make sure you check us again soon!

thanks for support, love soph

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Tue. 24 April, 2007 by Sophie

This is just incredible, we made it to the LONDON CHART!! Tonight we're at position 19, only 25 believers away from the top 10 after just a few days on SAB!!! And thanks to you believers, we entered the weekly chart at position 8!! This was remarked by SellaBand who features Autour de Sophie 2 times in the Tribune! We are mentionned as top 'new entry' band and SAB says that we are “A great live band – bet they’ll sound just as good in the studio”. THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE! Love, Soph
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Mon. 23rd April, 2007 by Sophie
Already a few believers, this is going fast! Thanks to everyone who decided to believe in us, who passed the word, encouraged us or put us on their wishlist! Keep going folks, believe in us before end of the April to make the London dream come true! Love, Soph
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Wed. 18th April, 2007 by Sophie
Well, here we are, we're entering the online music community and me and the guys sincerely hope that we'll be part of SellaBand and the music history! We're launching a massive appeal to our existing fans and to everyone here to become Believers and get us to London! We just started our SellaBand page very recently, so keep visiting as we will be uploading more audio/video and pics in the next few days. BEWARE LADIES: I will introduce you to the guys very soon... ; ) Love, Sophie
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12th April, release of our album, Delémont (CH)

19th April, Soleil, saignelégier (CH)

9th May, tramelan (CH)

25th october, Delémont (CH)

07th novembre, le Locle (CH)



25th January: concert in Bern (Switzerland) at the ONO club with Lorraine Jones (CH), Equation (FR) and Radius (NL).


August 13-17th: In the recording studio for new tracks...

 

July 16th: MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL!! the Montreux Jazz Café stage


June 15th: Porrentruy Jazz Festival


June 2-3rd: pre-production of our 'proper demo' in Switzerland for your auditory comfort ; )  We will keep you updated on the recording process..
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the whole team at the Montreux Jazz Café!
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the whole team at the Montreux Jazz Café!
the whole team at the Montreux Jazz Café!
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Autour de Sophie live a Montreux


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Apr 20 2008 17:31 CET Olamonola www.bauagan.com

Hi there!
Talentcast.nl choosed my song "Cień" to " song of the week" competition. If you like it, please vote for me.
This is great chance to exposure my music, and I realize I don't manage to exposure it by myself, so please don't be annoyed by my spam, this is only way I have to advertise it.
Sending peace and light,
Olamonola

link for voting
http://talentcast.nl /vote.php
Apr 05 2008 07:12 CET Alexia Gardner

Hey Sophie, thanks for dropping by! Yeah, it would be cool if you could drop into a gig too. I have some very nice ones lined up. The guys are great. I have one trio where I can concentrate on the classic jazz numbers and think of really cool arrangements with. The other trio and I do original material and more funk, reggae nujazz tunes........just a little more spicey! Both are cool and I am really getting a chance to explore Switzerland through playing music!

How are your projects going? Drop me a line!

Have a super weekend! Schöene Wochende!¨

Love

Alexia
Jan 28 2008 20:46 CET Samu

Hi Soph. I also enjoyed Ono a lot. Hope to meet you folks again. Good luck with your album. Samu
Jan 27 2008 21:27 CET MissY www.talentcast.nl

Hi :) Still am really happy I went to Bern, not in the least to see you and your friends performe live! Really special compositions you are doing. Keep on working on finishing your CD and let me know when it's ready. Or when you are ready to tour in Europe or the US ;)
Jan 26 2008 21:16 CET Alexia Gardner

Hi there guys!! I just wanted to say once again SUPER, SUPER, SUPER. I thoroughly enjoyed your perfromace at the Bern gig last night. You must feel proud for a wonderful opening set for the evening. I told you that I love jazz and you were a combination of jazz, a funky vibe and a punching rock tip at one stage.

.....and as I said to you Sophie (and as my Dad said to you too) we simply loved your song writing skills and that of your band members. Please keep up the good work and we really hope to hear and see you guys again soon.

Much Love

Alexia
p.s. I let you know when I am gigging near you!!

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BelieverDateParts
damballah (Marc - Equation) 28.01.08 1
Excellent, peaufiné aux petits oignons, que du bon! 
Pietro 28.01.08 3
The talented musicians of this Swisse band are able to create a wonderful atmosphere. The intimate Sophie's voice is just another well balanced instrument in this smart orchestra.
Albert 03.10.07 2

Nice nice jazz-band with a great singer.

Wishing to do some cross-over to let the audience grow a bit.

MissY www.talentcast.nl 29.04.07 4

Miss Sophie and her swiss friends know how to play live and make a nice mix of jazz, soul and all the other things I like :)

Antagonistic Complementary 27.04.07 1

As Sophie has virtually promised that the CD will be less jazzy, as well as that they're highly talented musicians and because she and the band seem to be amazing individuals, I'll turned into a believer, despite the fact that when I first listened to their songs, I didn't know if I'd like it much. As with other artists, however, sometimes it takes more time to really listen to the layers in the composition. They're growing on me and Sophie has the right spirit and attitude for the SAB concept!


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