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OrelSan (feat. Stromae) – La Pluie
For an artist who announced he’d stop making music for a while, Stromae is pretty musically active. Last Spring, he launched a surprise single (the instrumental Repetto x Mosaert), and now he appears on La Pluie (French for ‘the rain’). This is a song by popular French rapper OrelSan (real name: Aurélien Cotentin).
La Pluie is a track on OrelSan’s album La Fête Est Finie (‘the party is over’), that was released last week. It contains quite a few featured artists, like his incredibly successful fellow-countrymen Maître Gims and Nekfeu, Dizzee Rascal and twin sisters Ibeyi.
It’s not the first time OrelSan and Stromae collaborate. They did so earlier (together with the aforementioned Maître Gims) on the party track AVF. This was the closing song on Stromae’s album Racine Carrée and was criminally omitted as a single. Let’s see what happens with this new banger they’ve done together…
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 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
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.
Témé Tan – Coups De Griffe
His given name Tanguy Haesevoets already reveals Témé Tan has roots in both Kinshasa (Congo) and Brussels (Belgium), and as an artist, he fuses those worldly roots with pop, soul, hip hop and minimalistic electronics.
His first two singles, Améthys and Ça Va Pas La Tête, leaned towards world music, whereas his third effort Coups De Griffe has more of an electronic feel. On this track he sounds like a male version of French singer Yelle, which is a compliment in my book. But hear for yourself:
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 40)
Carte Blanche Music is like a three-stage rocket:
- throughout the week I select and collect great new music in my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music
- for the most ear catching/interesting/noteworthy tracks I write a recommendation on this blog
- the very best of the best are admitted in my own, subjective, alphabetically ordered ‘hall of fame’ called Werner’s Weekly
You can check if you agree with my choices by listening to the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and click any of the links below to find out more about a song. Happy discovery!
- The Hunna – Summer (Wildcard this week)
- Rae Morris – Do It (Wildcard last week)
- Caparezza – Ti Fa Stare Bene
- Hippo Campus – Baseball
- Les Gordons – Let The Music Speak
- Tiggs Da Author – Work It Out
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.
Caparezza – Ti Fa Stare Bene
As a rapper, Michele Salvemini calls himself Caparezza. That means ‘curly head’ in an Italian dialect. He considers Frank Zappa as his musical mentor. Hence the social and political criticism and the sharp irony in many of his lyrics.
Since the first album he recorded under this stage name, in 2000, he worked with many other musicians, some of them being Tony Hadley (of Spandau Ballet fame) and Roy Paci & Aretuska, who featured here before.
From Caparezza’s seventh album Prisoner 709, released last week, Ti Fa Stare Bene is the great new single.
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.
Tiggs Da Author – Work It Out
Before you read on, please listen to this track that I was completely mad about in 2003, Jerk It Out by Caesars (known as Caesars Palace in their home country Sweden and as Twelve Caesars elsewhere in Scandinavia, to keep things simple):
Fast forward to 2017: here is Tiggs Da Author’s version of this song. Thankfully he left the original pretty much intact, basically only changing one word in the title and adding a rap to the bridge. I hope this cover (with its Chris Martin featuring fun video) will introduce a truly great song to a whole new generation (leaving me feeling old…).
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.
Girli – Hot Mess
Milly Toomey, better known by her stage name Girli, is a rising London pop star. A girl with attitude, as song titles like So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya, It Was My Party Last Night, Girls Get Angry Too and her new single Hot Mess prove.
Hot Mess holds themes of resentment against the music industry as well as staying true to yourself. Speaking of the track, she says: “It’s about all the times I’ve been talked down to, patronised, told that I should change my songs, my look, my presentation…” Have I got news for you: she won’t listen to such advice.
Hot Mess is the title track of Girli’s new EP, set to drop 26 September. The video shows the singer accompanied by her girl gang of skaters known as the Bowl Babes. If you liked Trouble by Shampoo in the mid 90’s (when Girli wasn’t even born yet), you’re sure to like this as well. If you don’t remember that one, I guess you’ll like Hot Mess anyway 😉
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.
Rat Boy – Turn Round M8
After fine singles like Wasteman, Get Over It , Move and Revolution, Rat Boy finally released his full length debut Scum earlier this month. An album, recorded in Damon Albarn (Blur) his studio, that doesn’t only include all of the tracks we’ve come to love Jordan Cardy and his bandmates for, but also a collaboration with Blur’s Graham Coxon. He plays guitar on most recent single Laidback. And perhaps most important of all, Kendrick Lamar sampled the track Knock Knock Knock – originally from a 2015 Rat Boy mixtape – on the song Lust. from his album Damn.
But all of the name dropping aside, Scum features a song that stands out on its own as a potential next single. I absolutely love it. How do you like the album opener Turn Round M8?
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 35)
Besides many upcoming acts that are worth checking, I added new tracks by Beck, Feeder, Neil Finn, Lissie, Nicole Atkins, The War On Drugs and many others to my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music last week. If you are a musical omnivore, like me, that’s a playlist worth following, if I may say so myself.
If the six best songs of the past week are enough for you, look no further. I selected them for you and present them here, in alphabetical order.
Click the links for a little bit of background and meanwhile, listen to all six of them through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar…
- Julian Velard – Don’t Ask Me About Hamilton (Anymore) (Wildcard this week)
- Saint Etienne – Dive (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Hit The Ground Running
- Childhood – Nothing Ever Seems Right
- Fjokra – Bang On The Door
- Olsson – No Sugar
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.
