Your photographic art and live music magazine based in Switzerland, providing a selection of funky articles on rock, jazz, blues, reggae and world music
Ethnic Folk-Dance is a slow reading site:
→ Take your time and discover incredible leading musicians
→ Listen to their music and jump to other articles
→ Step into this kaleidoscopic music box
Why this name: Ethnic Folk-Dance
In the early 1960s, Charles Mingus was an advocate for change. To him, jazz was a pejorative term referring to bastringue music played in gambling dens and brothels.
For his two albums on the prestigious Impulse! label, he decided to change the slogan The New Wave of Jazz is on Impulse! to The New Wave of Folk is on Impulse! / Ethnic Folk-Dance Music.
On the back cover of an Impulse! record
The original slogan on the 1961 John Coltrane album Africa/Brass
And the slogan changed by Charles Mingus
on his essential 1963 album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Who are we ?
Since the 1980s, Pascal Schmidt has attended and photographed concerts in Switzerland and Europe, including the Montreux Jazz, Cully Jazz, Blues Rules Crissier and JazzOnze+ festivals, as well as clubs such as Chorus and Les Jumeaux in Lausanne.
Ethnic Folk-Dance presents a number of prominent musicians with live photo portraits in the context of their history and their music. The articles are grouped by theme, with notes on the musicians and a selection of recordings. The aim of Ethnic Folk-Dance is also to present the work of other actors in the world of culture, especially in the fields of photography and music, such as the book Helvécia - A Swiss colonial history in Brazil.
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Small and large stages
Warren Harry
Punk rock at the Music Machine, London, UK - September 1978
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
First European tour for The River album | Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland - April 1981
Gal Costa
First of five performances by this essential singer of Brazilian music at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland - July 1980
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
The King of Afrobeat on tour with his African Queens | Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland - July 1984
Bob Dylan
Masters Of War sung in front of the grim Nazi tribune |
Open Air Festival, Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, Germany - July 1978
The Clash
The punk rock legends tour for their album Sandinista! | Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland - May 1981
Kirk Lightsey
Hot club session by an 86-year-old young piano master | Club Chorus, Lausanne, Switzerland - Feburary 2023
Bobby Mc Ferrin
Circles Songs project | Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (CA) - January 2023
Meetings and interviews
Gilberto Gil | Interview - photo: Antoine Duplan
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland - July 1982
Caetano Veloso | Interview
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland - July 1983
Ney Matogrosso | Sound check
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland- July 1983
LKJ | Interview
Open air festival African Roots, Leysin, Switzerland - August 1981
Freddie King | Sound check
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland - July 1973
Matumbi | Interview
while holding one of my portraits from Jimmy Cliff on the Music Scene cover
Zurich, Switzerland - September 1982
In the news
The photo portraits were published in the regional press of French-speaking Switzerland, such as the magazine générations or, at the time, in the short-lived magazine Music Scene, dedicated to interviews and concerts in Switzerland.
generations-plus.ch - Sept 2022
music scene - Sept 1982
Jimmy Cliff
Graphics: Jean-Noël Pellaud
music scene - Oct 1982
Genesis, Phil Collins
Graphics: Jean-Noël Pellaud
music scene - Dec 1982
Art ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie
Graphics: Jean-Noël Pellaud
music scene - June 1982
Jacques Higelin
Graphics: Jean-Noël Pellaud
Radio-TV-je-vois-tout - June 1982
Zumbi des Palmiers Capoeira / A symbol of the struggle of the ancestors
Radio-TV-je-vois-tout - June 1982
The song of the favelas / A priest in jail for a song
Construire – Sept 1983
Solar Promises - What if the Brazilians had their say?
Interview with Caetano Veloso - during the military disctorship
Exhibitions
Various photo exhibitions were scheduled at unusual venues like fairs and gigs.
In 2016, for the 50th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Presence Switzerland organized a one-day open-air exhibition in Brazil of the festival's cover posters alongside my photographic portraits. The event took place at the Circo Voador, a famous concert hall in Rio de Janeiro, and included live concerts in Rio, São Paulo and Montreux by the Brazilian band Nação Zumbi and the Swiss band The Young Gods.
Selfie in front of my photo portraits of Tom Jobim, João Gilberto and Caetano Veloso
My selection of music records
Magazine articles on musicians are illustrated with a selection of music records from my collection.