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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.
Fjokra – Bang On The Door
Fjokra is a multi-instrumentalist from Dublin, who is currently based in London. After beginning to teach himself piano at the age of three, he developed a broad taste in music. This becomes clear immediately when you listen to his music, which is an eclectic mix of genres. His sound is both bizarre and absolutely unique, and therefore impossible to pigeon-hole.
Fjorka’s new single is called Bang On The Floor. I think you never heard something like it before…
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 33)
Are you following my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music already? It’s my most comprehensive collection of great new music, updated on a daily basis. Last week, I added Ella Eyre, Liam Gallagher, Ozark Henry, The Horrors, Kesha, Otherkin, Sparks, and many more. On the blog I can only recommend a few of them. And the very best of the songs I reviewed last week, are now listed alphabetically in Werner’s Weekly, below:
- Ridsa – Avancer (Wildcard this week)
- Skott – Mermaid (Wildcard last week)
- Broken Social Scene – Vanity Pail Kids
- Francesca Michielin – Vulcano
- Jimi Charles Moody – Shame
- My Baby – Make A Hundred
- Skinny Living – Why
Listen via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and click the links for more info.
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 32):
Ridsa – Avancer
The holidays are a great moment to pick up music that you don’t usually hear at home. Especially songs by local acts from the country that you’ve travelled to. Here in France, Avancer by Ridsa is on the radio a lot and to me it sounds like it could be a hit abroad as well…
Ridsa (born in 1990 as Maxence Boitez) is a French rapper/singer. He became an internet phenomenon after posting his songs on YouTube. His channel now counts 879.000 subscribers and his clips have been viewed around 300 million times altogether.
Avancer is a single that was released last April from his most recent album Libre. Since then 14 million (I suppose mostly French) viewers saw the clip. When released throughout Europe, I predict an even greater success…
Let me start by making the single this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. Hopefully this will help the song ‘avancer’…
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 Allergies (feat. Andy Cooper) – It Won’t Be Me
The Allergies is the production/DJ outfit from heavyweight DJ’s Rackabeat and Moneyshot, from Bristol, UK. They call it their mission to take vintage sounds and reshape them for the modern dancefloor, which they started doing in 2012.
After a few EP’s The Allergies released their first album As We Do Our Thing. Andy Cooper, one-third of Los Angeles rap trio Ugly Duckling, was one of the artists doing a guest performance on the record. He will also be present on their upcoming second full-length Push On, to be released on 28 July.
One of the tracks he will grace with his presence is It Won’t Be Me, The Allergies’s 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.
