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Festival time in Switzerland. The Eidgenossenschaft’s probably best known music weeks, the Montreux Jazz Festival, has begun last Friday. For the first half of July, one of the most exclusive festivals I know about offers a quite broad variety of concerts. Although you will find a lot of Jazz in the programme, many entries are not exactly associated. Shakira for instance is closer to Charleston, if anything. But also Prince stops for two shows, Lily Allen is around or Simian Mobile Disco have their night.

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Passion Pit has simply called the place “heaven” on their blog. They were among the first noteworthy acts within the free concert series of the festival. Nice enough, Montreux offers free shows of acts such as N.A.S.A., The Juan MacLean (DJ-Set), WHOMADEWHO or the Rakes for the less well-heeled.

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Passion Pit - The Reeling (BURNS Remix)

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Later this month, the Blue Balls Festival kicks off in what is probably Switzerland’s most beautiful city, Lucerne. Personal highlight: Antony performing with the Montreux Orchestra in one of Europe’s acustically most sophisticated auditoriums.

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