Browsing Tag folk
Millie Turner – Eyes On You
Only 17 years old, Millie Turner makes an impressive debut. Her songs, that she writes herself, are absolutely captivating. Earlier this year she put out her first single Underwater, so this follow-up is only her second offering.
Eyes On You is great song, that reminds me of Maggie Rogers’s Alaska. It’s powered by an acoustic guitar that would’ve fitted a modern pop dance production (à la Lost Frequencies) as well, underpinned by a deep bass line throughout. Midway, as an added bonus, a piano melody comes in that’s simple and subtle, yet so effective. And on top of all that, there’s the London singer’s mesmerizing voice.
The song could have done without the fade-out, but other than that it’s clear Millie Turner is a talent to reckon with.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 42)
Do you love new music, but don’t you have the time to find it? Have a radio show and like suggestions what to play? Have your playlist ready, but need some additional information about the bands? A fellow blogger who could use some inspiration? Carte Blanche Music is a one-stop shop for everyone who is actively involved in new music, as well as anyone who just likes to know the best music that has just come out.
The information is presented in three ways. Choose for yourself which suits you best, depending on the amount of time (or curiosity ? ) you have:
- my daily updated Spotify playlist Carte Blanche Music (a must-follow if you don’t want to miss a thing; added this week: Bad Sounds, Beck, Dagny, Marmozets, Zak Abel and many more)
- my recommendations on this blogs (usually two posts a day)
- my alphabetically ordered ‘best of the best’ playlist Werner’s Weekly (updated each Monday morning; you can listen to the tracks through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar)
Below, you’ll find the latest edition of Werner’s Weekly. Each link reveals more information about the respective track. Feel free to leave a comment or suggestion!
- Les Gordons – Let The Music Speak (Wildcard this week)
- Isaac Gracie – Silhouettes Of You (Wildcard last week)
- Absynthe Minded – Beam
- Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
- Dangers Of The Sea – Mathilda
- Efecto Pasillo – Las Banderas
- Firewoodisland – Dearest Brother
- Spoon – I Ain’t The One
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Firewoodisland – Dearest Brother
In 2010, Norwegian singer, songwriter and producer Stian Vedøy moved to Cardiff, UK. He started a solo project called Firewoodisland (which is ‘Vedøy’ translated into English), while studying for a masters in music production. A coming together of fellow like-minded musicians, followed by a regional win in Norway’s Bandwagon Battle of the Bands in 2013 saw the solo project turn into a full band, also featuring Abi Eleri Vedøy, Stephen Allen and Dylan Jones. Their debut EP ILD, quickly followed in early 2014.
Now Bristol-based, the band are reaching an ever-increasing audience and put out the follow-up EP Dome in 2016. Since then, they played a lot of showcases, support shows, regular gigs and festivals.
High time the media start supporting Firewoodisland as well. Their new single Dearest Brother is a great radio track, waiting to grace the airwaves.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Dangers Of The Sea – Mathilda
If you like classic songwriting, acoustic guitars and beautiful harmonies, you’d better read (and listen) on. Dangers Of The Sea, consisting of five friends, all members from Danish bands like Saybia, Slaraffenland, Folkeklubben and Efterklang, has lined up its second album Our Place In History for release on 20 October. It has been four years in the making since their debut came out.
What can you expect? Think Neil Young, R.E.M. and Midlake… The album features the singles You And I, Can You Hear Me and this beautiful new track: Mathilda.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Dermot Kennedy – Moments Passed
Could Dermot Kennedy be ‘the next Rag ‘n’ Bone Man’? Listening to his raw vocals, poetic lyrics, hip hop-inspired beats and urban-leaning production, I think so! (although Rag ‘n’ Bone Man’s career has only just begun, of course.) Good news for the latter: Kennedy himself describes his music as ‘50/50 of Bon Iver and Drake’.
Dermot Kennedy is a young singer-songwriter from Dublin, who released three stand-alone singles in the past two years. This spring he came up with the EP Doves And Ravens, featuring a further four singles.
Now, he is back with an all-new track, that sounds like his potential break-through. Check Moments Passed here:
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 39)
Demi Lovato isn’t an artist who really needs my support here, but her new single is one of the most surprising new releases of the last week. A very strong track, that certainly deserves a spot in my Carte Blanche Music 2017 playlist, featuring great new music only. The latest tracks by Maggie Rogers, Morrissey, Rat Boy, Young Gun Silver Fox and Youngr all fall in that category as well, so if you’re curious, you know where to find them. Subscribe to this list and you’ll never miss a good song anymore.
But if you’d rather have a shortlist, a convenient overview of only the best of the best new music, look no further. Werner’s Weekly is exactly that, showcasing the (in this case) eight absolute highlights of the past week, alphabetically ordered. For your listening pleasure, all tracks are available through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar of this blog. I promise you 31 delicious minutes; a great start of the day. Finally, clicking on the links below will provide you with more information about each song.
- Rae Morris – Do It (Wildcard this week)
- Sol Heilo – America (Wildcard last week)
- Audio Adam – Break Down
- Calypso Valois – Apprivoisé
- Cut/Copy – Black Rainbows
- Hundred Waters – Wave To Anchor
- Shaka Ponk – Faking Love
- The Used – Over And Over Again
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 38)
Last week was a great week for new music. Only in the past seven days I added great new songs by David Gray, Foo Fighters, Honeyblood and Shout Out Louds to my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music. Even Skipper Wise, who scored his last (and only) hit Standing Outside In The Rain in 1990, is back with a beautiful new track.
As every Monday morning, you can find my favourites of this whole bunch – in alphabetical order – in Werner’s Weekly, below. The tags underneath this post indicate the variety you will experience while playing these songs. You can do this through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. For more information about any of the tracks, simply click the respective link. Enjoy!
- Sol Heilo – America (Wildcard this week)
- Calogero – 1987 (Wildcard last week)
- Frida Sundemo – Gold
- Girli – Hot Mess
- JohnnySwim – First Try
- Pacific – Life In Short
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Wildcard (week 37):
Sol Heilo – America
With her band Katzenjammer on hiatus, Norwegian artist Solveig Heilo embarks on a career of her own. Playing guitar, trumpet, banjo, harp, flute, accordion, mandolin, ukulele, drums, bass and many other instruments, she isn’t only a singer, but a multi-instrumentalist, as you will hear on her first solo album Skinhorse Playground, which she releases on 6 October.
America is Sol Heilo’s new solo single. It featured here before, but I like it so much, I made it this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, giving it the most prominent place on the blog for seven days in a row.
Make sure you watch the video, it took 744 hours to make! The raw material, all shot with her iPhone, is 27 hours long and she filmed 42 locations in addition to 24 close-ups in her living room and garden.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Frøkedal – Cracks
Norwegian folk singer Frøkedal only released her debut album Hold On Dreamer last year, but she has just put out a double A-sided single with two brand new tracks: LTF and Cracks. Both dig into the (chaotic and painful, but also often liberating) nature of desire. “LTF and Cracks are similar in the sense that they both describe the almost-physical fear that comes with being in love”, according to Frøkedal.
The latter of the two is my favourite. “Cracks suggests that the problem lies in our nature”, the singer says. “Nothing is more scary than exposing our weaknesses and imperfections. But to truly love, and be loved, it is necessary to take the risk.”
Frøkedal is signed to Propeller Recordings, the same label that brought us Sløtface, Imitating Aeroplanes and Sol Heilo.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 37)
It looks like one of the results of the popularity of streaming is that more new music is being released than ever before. Streaming being a worldwide phenomenon, more and more artists want to take a shot at stardom, even if it was only at a ‘one hit wonder‘ level.
In my Carte Blanche Music container playlist I collect what I think are the best tracks in any genre. Last week I added Beck, Dangers Of The Sea and Stereophonics, to name but a few of the better-known artists. But I added even more (as yet) unknown bands, that are just as much worthy of your attention. They may be the megastars of the future. If you’re curious, just follow that playlist and I’ll keep you updated on a day to day basis.
My ‘best of the best’ playlist is called Werner’s Weekly. Needless to say you can follow that one as well. The latest example of my cherry picking is below. You can listen to each of these tracks through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and if you want to know more about a song, just click the link for additional information.
- Calogero – 1987 (Wildcard this week)
- AKA George – Stone Cold Classic (Wildcard last week)
- GoldFish – If I Could Find
- Public Service Broadcasting (feat. James Dean Bradfield) – Turn No More
- Sløtface – Backyard
- Sol Heilo – America
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
