Browsing Tag funk
Werner’s Weekly (week 50)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Julie Zenatti – Tout Est Plus Pop (Wildcard this week)
- Sebu – The Secret Is Out [Lucas Vidal Arrangement] (Wildcard last week)
- Corine – Un Air De Fête À Tokyo [Japanese Version]
- Fitz & The Tantrums – I Just Wanna Shine
- North Parade – Keepthingscasual
- Peggy Sue – Validate Me
- Spacey Jane – Head Cold
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Alanis Morissette, Polish Club, Regina Spektor, and many more.
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.
Corine – Un Air De Fête À Tokyo [Japanese Version]
One year ago, French nu-disco queen Corine released her debut album Un Air De Fête. A party record indeed, to which it’s impossible to sit still. I’ve recommended several of the album’s singles, but the title track was my favourite. Not in the least because of the irresistible synth, that appears to be borrowed from Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. There’s no denying Giorgio Moroder has been a big influence, anyway.
Two years ago, Corine put out an Italian version of her debut single Pourquoi Pourquoi (called Perché Perché). Now, she chose Un Air De Fête as her next single. However, as the new title Un Air De Fête À Tokyo gives away, it’s sung in Japanese. That doesn’t make it an easy choice for radio stations in Europe, for whom French is difficult enough. But it’s a clever move for her to break through in Japan, with its 126 million inhabitants. And for those who listen first and foremost to the song as a whole, it’s still the same fun track it always was.
Recommended as well:
Corine – Je Danse Le Mia
Corine – Un Air De Fête
Corine – Maquillage
Corine – Il Fait Chaud
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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 49)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Sebu – The Secret Is Out [Lucas Vidal Arrangement] (Wildcard this week)
- Deacon Blue – City Of Love (Wildcard last week)
- Alma – Bad News Baby
- Circa Waves – Jacqueline
- Hazel English – Shaking
- Nasty Cherry – Brain Soup
- The Heavy – Last Man Standing
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Corine, Fitz & The Tantrums, Videoclub, and many more.
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.
The Heavy – Last Man Standing
The Heavy only released their fifth album Sons last May, but since then they put out three brand-new songs already. Last Man Standing follows Put It On The Line and Everything I Got. It’s another horn-tinged, electro soul-based, funk-infused track.
The British rock band doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Lucky us!
Recommended as well:
The Heavy – Fighting For The Same Thing
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Nasty Cherry – Brain Soup
How many bands with their own Netflix documentary, less than a year after they came together, do you know? Meet Nasty Cherry, a four-women band handpicked by Charli XCX at the start of 2019. ‘I’m With The Band’ is a six-episode series that follows her protégés.
Nasty Cherry’s first EP Season 1 collects three out of the four singles the band put out so far. The 6-track set is completed by two new songs and an interlude. I like EP opener Brain Soup the best. A track that sounds like it was produced by Prince – which is technically impossible, obviously. Also check Fuck Modern Love!
Recommended as well:
Nasty Cherry – Live Forever
Nasty Cherry – Win
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Zuco 103 – Aruenda
As early as 1999, Lilian Vieira (vocals), Stefan Schmid (keys) and Stefan Kruger (drums) formed their first project Rec.A. Soon after, they adopted the Zuco 103 moniker. Combining dance, dub and Brazil sounds, the band described their music as ‘Brazilectro’. Soon after, this became an international household name and a scene with likeminded artists and deejays.
This year, Zuco 103 celebrated their 20th anniversary with the album Tripicalismo, containing old songs, new tracks and remixes. A completely new album is in the works already and is due for release in Spring 2020. Aruenda is the funky first single off it.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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 46)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Halie – Good Kids (Wildcard this week)
- Palaye Royale – Hang On To Yourself (Wildcard last week)
- Clara Luciani – Ma Soeur
- Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
- Field Music – Only In A Man’s World
- Jonas Brøg – That Feeling
- Sophie & The Giants – Runaway
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Ash, George Michael, Róisín Murphy, Tom Walker, Zucchero, and many more.
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.
All We Are – L Is For Lose
Comprised of Guro Gikling from Norway (vocals, bass), Luis Santos from Brazil (guitars) and Richard O’Flynn from Ireland (drums, vocals), All We Are are based in Liverpool. The band adopts a new sound on each album. Between the long-players they put out in 2015 and 2017, they shifted from late-night grooves to psychedelia. In an attempt to summarize, they call their music ‘psychedelic boogie’.
Earlier this year, All We Are released their first track since 2017. Heart Attack featured Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos. And this week, the trio comes with L Is For Lose, which sounds like a funk ballad. Talking about the song, All We Are explain: “L Is For Lose is a psychosexual, off kilter tune that is an ode to that weird dance, the push and pull, that a sexual relationship moves to.”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Clara Luciani – Ma Soeur
22 November, talented French singer Clara Luciani re-releases her debut album Sainte Victoire for the second time. This ‘super edition’ contains five additional tracks.
One of them is Ma Soeur, a funky pop song, produced by Yuksek. As you might have guessed from its title, Ma Soeur is an ode to her older sister, Lea. Performing as Ehla, she recently released her own single Cool.
Recommended as well:
Clara Luciani – La Grenade
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
I think Dua Lipa’s single Be The One is one of the best pop songs of this decennium. Ever since I was one of the first to play it, she’s been a fixture in my Carte Blanche radio show and on this blog. In the meantime, she’s gone on to become one of the most popular female solo artists in the world. Her eponymous debut album (which spawned no less than 11 singles) is the most streamed album by a female artist in Spotify’s history. Also, she is the youngest female artist ever to attract 1 billion views on YouTube.
Now, exactly four years after the release of Be The One, Dua Lipa is back with another banger. It may be called Don’t Start Now, but it certainly is the start of a new era, with a new musical direction. Her second album will feature more live instruments (rather than electronica). On top of that, she collaborated with the likes of Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
The influence of the Chic frontman is very clear on Don’t Start Now, although he doesn’t appear in the credits. Nevertheless, the song is a funky nu disco anthem with ‘Nile Rodgers’ written all over it. Dua Lipa explains: “I chose to put this song out first so I could close one chapter of my life and start another. Into a new era with a new sound! It’s about moving on and not allowing anyone to get in the way of that. It also felt like a natural first song choice as I made it with the brilliant same crew I made New Rules with.”
Recommended as well:
Dua Lipa – Swan Song
Dua Lipa – Bad Together / Genesis
Dua Lipa – Thinking ‘bout You
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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.
