Browsing Tag instrumental
Werner’s Weekly (week 19)
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:
- MisterWives – Rock Bottom (Wildcard this week)
- Grand Corps Malade – Effets Secondaires (Wildcard last week)
- Austra feat. Cecile Believe – Mountain Baby
- Carmanah – Best Interests
- E^ST – Maybe It’s Me
- Mxmtoon – No Faker
- The Haggis Horns – Haggis Express
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: Dagny, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sea Girls, 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 Haggis Horns – Haggis Express
I’m a sucker for bands with great horn sections. The likes of Chicago and Tower Of Power. Or the Dap-Kings, who worked with Sharon Jones, and later with artists like Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson.
UK funk/soul kings The Haggis Horns were new to me. My fault, because they’re around for over two decades, working with Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, Jamiroquai, and many more. I only heard of them recently, when doing research for my recommendation of Izo FitzRoy’s Red Line.
The Haggis Horns are about to release their fifth album Stand Up For Love. Its first single is the full-on instrumental banger Haggis Express, for all you funk/soul brothers and sisters out there.
Groovy rhythm section: check.
Scratchy funk guitar: check.
Fiery hammond organ solo: check.
Latin fire congas: check.
A horn section so sharp you could shave with their riffs: check.
It’s never too late to discover a great old band. Please meet The Haggis Horns. Pure dirty funk at it’s best.
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.
Cookin’ On 3 Burners – The Jump Off
Six weeks ago, when Warning by Cookin’ On 3 Burners feat. Kaiit was the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, I already mentioned its great instrumental B-side The Jump Off. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one to like that track, as the Australian Hammond organ trio has now decided to release it as a single in its own right.
The Jump Off, which will feature on the band’s next album Lab Experiments Vol. 2, just like Warning, is a brilliant funk track, that I would have loved to have heard James Brown’s vocals on.
For this new single, Cookin’ On 3 Burners asked B-boys and B-girls to submit their moves and represent their city. Breakers The Wildup Crew (Rome), Young Masters Crew (Melbourne), Bboy Levi (Erlangen), Bboy Bruce Wayne (Paris), and Bboy Banjo (Sunshine) were chosen to feature in the video. The result is a crowd sourced collaboration cut together highlighting their skills and celebrating the funk.
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.
Kideko – Dum Dum
Brighton, UK-based DJ/producer Ryan Hurley originally played in local bands as a drummer. Only when he started studying music technology and music production, he became interested in electronic/dance music. He begun a career of his own, using the stage name Kideko. In 2014, he debuted with the double A-sided single On And On/Amour, but his first real success came with follow-up The Jam, which sampled Technotronic’s Pump Up The Jam.
But I’m sure Kideko’s biggest hit is yet to come. Dum Dum ticks all the right boxes in that respect. It’s a samba-influenced dance track with ‘party’ written all over it. And the lyrics aren’t too complex either…
UPDATE 23 September: This fun instrumental now also comes with vocals, provided by Tinie Tempah and Becky G. If it wasn’t a smash already, it sure is now!
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.
Stromae – Repetto x Mosaert
Only last January Paul ‘Stromae’ Van Haver announced he’d stop making music for a while. Together with his wife, stylist and fashion designer Coralie Barbier, he wanted to focus on his unisex fashion line Mosaert (an anagram for Stromae, obviously).
Last Friday they presented their fourth collection: a line of shoes. Ballerina flats for men, to be precise. For this collection the pair partnered with footwear brand Repetto. Together with these shoes, Stromae launched a surprise single: the instrumental Repetto x Mosaert.
So now you know what the title came from, but what inspired the music?
Let me take you back to the beginning of 2015, when French/Israeli singer Yael Naim released her song Coward. A beautiful track that stood midway between medieval chamber music and church music. Not exactly radio material, but nevertheless I played it in my radio show Carte Blanche.
When Yael Naim read in an interview that the last song to make Stromae cry, was her song Coward, she invited him to use the song for his directorial debut. Together with his brother, filmmaker Luc Junior Tam, and director Martin Scali, Stromae made an impressive video for the song, which you can enjoy below. The melody of this song is now the basis of the maestro’s own new track.
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.
