Swiss electro-R&B duo True stream debut record Wrapped In Air

Dani (vocals) and Rico Baumann (production) fuse forward-thinking electronica with vintage pop. It's glossy and warm, with chilled ambient textures and trappy beats coursing beneath - if you like Wet or Jessie Ware, you're in for a treat.

What does the album's title refer to?

Rico: Air is invisible, it's close to nothing. To be wrapped in air means to be naked, but not exactly. You could say almost everything in our world is wrapped in air and it's true.

Dani: But we wanted to describe things between the lines, between persons, that you feel, but you can't touch, like air. And that's something that's very important to us in music too.

How would you describe your sound?

R: Unlike other electronic acts, our music always starts with songs, not with beats or sounds. The song is the core, everything else is just packaging. The songs are simple, but very playful and elaborated, so they don't fit most of today's radio formats.

D: We both share a love for sugary R&B, which is not common in Switzerland. When people listen to our songs and say, this is much too sweet, we look at each other and know it's perfect.

Tell us a bit about the collaborations on the record.

R: I spent six months in New York last year and met Sean Smith and Walter Fancourt at their show with the band Reptar. I loved their horns on the record already - they sound synthetic and real at the same time, which I haven't heard like this before, and it perfectly fits our style. We never imagined horns in our songs, so when I told Dani about it, she thought it was my worst idea ever. But then she heard it and was sold.

We hear lots of jazz musicians in Switzerland are suddenly moving towards pop and electronica. Why might this be?

D: I can't really explain it, but basically we are simply not too puristic. I am very interested in different kind of music and was always singing pop as well. Rico was doing electronic music long before he started to study and play jazz.

R: Most of my friends who play jazz love pop, electronic, or classical music just as much. I mean who didn't grow up with pop music? These worlds maybe still different in the business world, but not so much in the reality of being a musician. There's just too much great music out there to be stuck to one genre only. It's like the differences in race, religion, gender, sexual orientation. We should be over this.

Wrapped In Air is released via Mouthwatering on 23 September. Listen below.