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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
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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JohnnySwim – First Try
JohnnySwim is the stage name of singer-songwriter duo Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez, who married in the process. When you listen to their songs, you’ll soon enough discover Sudano is more than Donna Summer’s daughter alone (at many of her mother’s concerts she sang backing vocals).
First Try is JohnnySwim’s latest single. The song has been buzzing around for almost a year now. In October 2016 it was one of the tracks on their second album Georgica Pond and it stood out immediately. It’s a gospel-like song, full of soul, which features a piece of humming that is equal parts Let It Be and Lean On Me.
The track has been on my Carte Blanche Music playlist since last May, but has only now been remixed for its release as a single, accompanied by a video that features footage from the duo’s recent tour.
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 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.
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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Jimi Charles Moody – Shame
Sia started to hide herself from the public eye when she was world famous already. Jimi Charles Moody however, is somewhat of a mystery from the start. He hardly does interviews and often appears with a cloth around his head. He is said to have stage fright, so it remains to be seen if he will ever perform live. It is even unsure whether he is an American (like he stated in one of his rare interviews) or a Brit (rumour has it that Jimi Charles Moody is the alter ego of a British Top 40 artist).
But wait… this article shines a little light on the man behind the mask. And the rumours appear to be true: Jimi Charles Moody is in fact Harley Alexander-Sule, one half of British hip hop act Rizzle Kicks, who should have become stars with their great singles Mama Do The Hump and Down With The Trumpets, but in fact only scored in the UK.
His solo project, Alexander-Sule says, was essentially inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles. Hence the name. So far, under the moniker Jimi Charles Moody, he released the 4-track EP Islington in 2015 (containing Other Man, which has also been remixed by Gangstarr’s DJ Premier) and a few singles. Each and every one of them soulful pop songs.
And now, here is his latest song Shame. A track that already entered at #40 in the European Border Breakers Chart last week, based on airplay in the Netherlands alone, and deserves to be Jimi Charles Moody’s big international break-through. He’ll only have to figure out how to do things live…
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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Skinny Living – Why
Skinny Living is a British band that deserves to become huge in the wake of the current success of Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, for instance. They make the same kind of emotional soulful music, built around frontman Ryan Johnston’s touching voice. The other three band members have great vocal chords as well, by the way.
Skinny Living’s debut-EP 3 already presented us with four fine tunes in 2016, and 11 August they present their second EP 6. Why is the first single off it, a song that bravely tackles the subject of depression. It’s about the dark times Johnston experienced himself in his younger life, and the way his sister helped him get through them.
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 32)
As the summer moves on, so does the music. Great new tracks by Broken Social Scene, Everything Everything and Jimi Charles Moody are among the ones I moved into my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music for your listening pleasure. And when you click the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar, you can hear my ultimate, ‘best of the best’ selection, that is also listed alphabetically below:
- Skott – Mermaid (Wildcard this week)
- Wolf Parade – Valley Boy (Wildcard last week)
- Arcane Roots – Off The Floor
- Freak – No Money
- Gin Wigmore – Beatnik Trip
- Julia Michaels – Worst In Me
- Rebecca & Fiona – Pay Me
Interested in what I have to say about each of them? Then simply click the links.
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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Gin Wigmore – Beatnik Trip
New Zealand singer-songwriter Gin Wigmore (née Virginia Claire) has a voice that sits halfway between Amy Winehouse en Duffy. She broke through in 2004, when she beat 11.000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries and won an American songwriting competition. She recorded her debut album Holy Smoke with Ryan Adams’s band, The Cardinals, in 2009.
Later this year, the singer will release her fourth album. So far, she put out three singles off it: Dirty Mercy, Hallow Fate and My Little Corner Of The World. Beatnik Trip is number four. A real summer single, with its foot-stomping percussion section, horn arrangement and Wigmore’s soulful vocals.
The new song, in addition to being featured on her forthcoming album, is the second collaboration from Gin’s new GirlGang project, in which acclaimed New York City cartoonist Liana Finck created the lyric video.
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 31)
The likes of Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music made it easier than ever to keep track with new music. Whether you’re at home, on the beach, in your car or on safari: a smartphone with your service of choice is all you need. Oh, and you need the time to browse through all of the available playlists to pick the tracks of your liking…
If that’s too much hustle for you, trust me to it. I listen to music in every spare minute and love to select the best new songs for you on a daily basis. Just check (and follow) my Carte Blanche Music playlist and hear for yourself! Last week I added Belle & Sebastian, The Killers, Pvris, Sløtface, Superfood and many more to that playlist. Each and every one of them great tracks. But the very best of them – in my opinion – are listed alphabetically below (listen through the Werner’s Weekly player):
- Wolf Parade – Valley Boy (Wildcard this week)
- Aloe Blacc – King Is Born (Wildcard last week)
- Drones Club – International
- Jade Bird – Cathedral
- Nicole Atkins – Sleepwalking
- Skott – Mermaid
- The Montreals – Deadheads
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Midnight In Richmond
(Click the links for backgrounds on each of the tracks and click below to listen to them)
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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Nicole Atkins – Sleepwalking
I’ve had a weak spot for Nicole Atkins ever since her debut album Neptune City from 10 years ago. Songs like The Way It Is (that must have been an inspiration for Lana Del Rey) and Maybe Tonight struck me immediately and still stop me in my tracks when they come shuffling by on my Carte Blanche Classics playlist (radio never really caught up on her, alas). Her second long player Mondo Amore brought us Cry Cry Cry and her third album Slow Phaser contained Who Killed The Moonlight?
On her brand new record Goodnight Rhonda Lee, Atkins continues to melt crooner music, Americana, blues, country, pop noir and soul into her own distinguished sound. The opening track A Little Crazy was co-written by Chris Isaak (and sounds like it), but the most soulful track on the album, Sleepwalking, is her new single. You can almost hear the Love Boat cruise by…
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 30)
For those of you who are not on holiday, I’ll pretend not to be as well. On the other hand: why would you stop listening to new music when you’re not at home? The stream of great new releases doesn’t run dry either.
The last seven days I enriched my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music with Armstrongs, Nothing But Thieves, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Ride, among others. And as always, the crème de la crème of this fine bunch if brand new songs is listed alphabetically in my Werner’s Weekly playlist below. Please allow me to bring you up to speed in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
- Aloe Blacc – King Is Born (Wildcard this week)
- Alice Merton – No Roots (Wildcard last week)
- Chase & Status feat. Emeli Sandé – Love Me More
- Last Train – Between Wounds
- Tom Grennan – Found What I’ve Been Looking For
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Midnight In Richmond
Through the links above you can read my recommendations for each track, and while reading, you can listen to all of the songs via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
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.
