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Werner’s Weekly (week 8)
So here it is again: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, as always containing the latest two Carte Blanche Music Wildcards and my alphabetically ordered selection of the best releases from the past week…
- Shake Shake Go – Dinosaur (Wildcard this week)
- We Are Scientists – One In, One Out (Wildcard last week)
- Absynthe Minded – Kingpin
- Luz Casal – Que Corra El Aire
- Margaret Island – Hóvirág
- Nilüfer Yanya – Thanks 4 Nothing
- Raf Rundell feat. Showboy – Sweet Cheeks
- The Wholls – Going Down
The links will bring you to the stories behind the tracks and you can listen to them via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. If that’s not enough to ease your hunger for great new music, I can recommend you to subscribe to my daily updated 2018 gross list, the Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist. Just a few of the tracks I added last week are by artists like Albert Hammond Jr., Belle & Sebastian, Jessie Ware, Simple Minds and Tracey Thorn feat. Corinne Bailey Rae, among a host of new talent.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Raf Rundell feat. Showboy – Sweet Cheeks
Raf Rundell is one half of dance duo The 2 Bears. In 2016, he released his debut mini album The Adventures Of Selfie Boy Part 1 to a very positive reception. This new single is a taster for his first full length album Stop Lying, scheduled for release on 2 March. Sweet Cheeks is an uplifting slice of funky pop music, that could have been a companion piece to the Freestylers’ Push Up. Destined to make your day!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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L’Impératrice – Matahari
In a way, French music is always surrounded by an sense of sensuality. Whether it’s the melancholy whispering, even moaning singing technique of many a chanteuse, or the sultry, groovy, tropical disco like instrumentation, in French music passion and desire are never far away. Take L’Impératrice (French for ‘the empress’), for example…
L’Impératrice is a six-piece band from Paris (where else? ). Since 2012, they released four EP’s and a handful of stand-alone singles. Only 2 March their debut album Matahari will come out. The title track is the new single, and with a subject like that, it can only be a sensual track, can it? Well… it is!
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Arsenal – Amplify
Arsenal is a Belgian duo, consisting of Hendrik Willemyns and John Roan. They are the core of the band, who regularly surround themselves with guest musicians and guest vocalists. This has been a succesful formula for 18 years now; time for the two to try something new…
2018 looks like becoming an incredibly busy year for Arsenal. In the fall, they will publish a poetry book (Room For Imaginary Creatures), in the summer, their film Birdsong comes out, and in the spring, they release their new album In The Rush Of Shaking Shoulders.
Willemyns and Roan found inspiration for the album in Nigeria, where they recorded it as well. There, they experimented with new rhythms and found some musicians who will join Arsenal live.
The newly found Nigerian sounds are omni-present on the band’s new single Amplify, which builds into a most pleasant electro-funk song. I dare you not to tap your feet to it, you’ll see it’s impossible!
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 48)
While daily updating my Carte Blanche Music container playlist (with The Academic, Dua Lipa, Isaac Gracie, Saint Raymond, Shaka Ponk, Toto a.o., last week), and daily recommending you great new music via this blog, there’s only one moment in the week that I present you with the very best tracks of the past seven days…
Each Monday morning (European time) I give you Werner’s Weekly. A shortlist of highlights for your discovering and listening pleasure, brought together in the compact Werner’s Weekly playlist (see the player in the sidebar). It’s also listed alphabetically below and each link provides you with more information. If there’s anything more I can do to make your life easier, please tell me… 😉 . For now: enjoy!
- The Bamboos (feat. Montaigne) – I’ll Make You Happy (Wildcard this week)
- Kira Puru – Tension (Wildcard last week)
- Fabri Fibra – CVDM
- Gin Wigmore – Cabrona
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – It’s A Beautiful World
- Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – He Wants To
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 47)
With the likes of Bad Sounds, Black Honey, Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato, Sea Girls and Yungblud added to my container playlist Carte Blanche Music in the last week, what could possibly go wrong this week? Nothing really!
But to make sure you don’t miss out on the best new music of the past seven days, I compiled a new edition of Werner’s Weekly for you. Check it below, listen via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and/or read more information about each of the tracks by clicking the links.
Enjoy the ride and follow my playlist for daily updates!
- Kira Puru – Tension (Wildcard this week)
- The Presets – Do What You Want (Wildcard last week)
- Alien Stadium – This One’s For The Humans
- Boy Azooga – Face Behind Her Cigarette
- Eleanor Jacks – Run ‘n’ Hide
- The Night Ships – Half The World
- Youngr x Endor – Give It Up
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Kira Puru – Tension
Kira Puru is an Australian vocal talent, but more than that. She’s a multi-disciplinary artist, hands-on at every level, both on stage and in the studio. Apart from that, she’s a photographer, visual artist and DJ.
Renowned for her genre-bending style, Kira Puru’s new single isn’t easy to pin down. With its pounding four-to-the-floor beat, fuzzy bass and tremolo guitar, Tension is equal parts funk and soul. In her own words, it’s ‘goth disco’.
One thing’s for sure: it’s groovy from start to finish and I love it! That’s why Tension by Kira Puru is featured here prominently this week as the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Joseph J. Jones – Crawl
The impact of artists like Hozier and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man is incredible. Both of them being only at the beginning of their (commercial) careers, they already amassed a huge following. Of fans, but also of other artists who fish in the same musical pond.
Joseph J. Jones, whose grandfather was a jazz guitarist with the BBC, brings a fine mix of folk, blues and soul to the table, with intimate lyrics, sung with an incredible voice. Last year, he collaborated with co-writer/producer Richard Frenneaux, who worked with artists like Ella Eyre and Parson James before.
Jones’s promising new single is entitled Crawl.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 41)
Only once a week, this forward-looking music blog looks back: every Monday morning I present you with the best new music of the past week. This shortlist, called Werner’s Weekly, is a compilation of all of the tracks I added to my longlist Carte Blanche Music in the last seven days. These include new songs by artists as diverse as Dua Lipa, Liam Gallagher, Lukas Graham, The 1975, Tiggs Da Author and Tricky.
However, only six of them have made this summary. You can hear them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. For more info: click the links below…
- Isaac Gracie – Silhouettes Of You (Wildcard this week)
- The Hunna – Summer (Wildcard last week)
- Delv!s – Home Again
- Mullally – She Don’t Know Me
- Philip Selway feat. Lou Rhodes – Walk
- Témé Tan – Coups De Griffe
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Delv!s – Home Again
Belgian singer Niels Delvaux uses Delv!s as his stage name. I already wrote about his single Come My Way, and the follow-up Sunday Interlude spent one week in the European Border Breakers Chart. Not bad, but he is destined for more.
Hopefully, now is the time for Delv!s to score big, as he releases the best song off his EP No Ending (which also includes the afore-mentioned tracks) as his new single.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
