M.E.L.T. Music

Based in Kriens, Switzerland, M.E.L.T. Music is a recording label that originally set up by Swiss born Robert Trunz. The site releases World Music, jazz and collaborations of artists from South Africa, the U.K., Brazil and Cuba. It features well-known names like Byron Wallen, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Amampondo, Busi Mhlongo and Mabi Thobejane. It boasts of a catalogue of unique recordings of some of the finest jazz, traditional and indigenous musicians like the late pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa , Madala Kunene, Madosini, trumpeter Byron Wallen. It’s also characterised with traditional music and remixes of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Trunz continues to release a carefully selected choice of unreleased and new recordings from the African continent.

With a vast library of video recordings spanning more than a decade, a DVD of all these recordings is being transferred for DVD release.

CD's and DVD's of new and exciting artists include L.A.P. (Live African Percussion), Castro B., Vivid Afrika, Greg Georgiades, Ashish Joshi, Syd Kitchen, Johnny Fourie, Ernest Mothle & Ntombe Thongo's African Band. ELECTRIC M.E.L.T., a division of the music label, is undertaking several new projects in conjunction with local South African and European remixes released under the Music With No Name series.