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Werner’s Weekly (week 14)
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:
- The Spitfires – (Just Won’t) Keep Me Down (Wildcard this week)
- Hollie Col – She Knows (Wildcard last week)
- Izo FitzRoy – Red Line
- Lime – Surf N Turf
- Magnus Bechmann – What Do You Know
- Saint Motel – A Good Song Never Dies
- Shingai – Coming Home
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: Dua Lipa, Pearl Jam, Sondre Lerche, 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.
Shingai – Coming Home
You may remember Shingai Shoniwa as the singer and bass player in the Noisettes. They released great singles like Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) and That Girl. If not: do yourself a favour and click the links before reading on…
The EP Ancient Futures is Shingai’s first solo release, which draws on her Zimbabwean and Bantu heritage. Coming Home is the EP’s first single. I dare you not to move your hips to its dancefloor-ready beats. BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac called it ‘bonkers pop music’, and that’s just what it is.
The video for the single is the first western music video to be shot in Zimbabwe. Shingai hopes it will challenge narrow views of Africa. She wanted to celebrate the country’s beautiful landscape rather than the usual shock horror that you read about in the news. The title Coming Home, however, is more than just literal. “It’s coming home to yourself,” says Shingai, “to a realisation of sorts, that this is the person that I want to be.”
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.
Cassia – Movers And Shapers
Cassia may not be a household name yet, but their debut album Replica already features seven singles: 100 Times Over, Sink, Out Of Her Mind, Get Up Tight, Loosen Up, Small Spaces and the title track. Does this make Cassia the first band to release a ‘best of’ set as their first album? 😉
Whether this is the case or not, Replica is a very fine compilation of what the band have been up to the last years, and in case you missed that, it’s the best possible introduction. Cassia is a British trio that combine indie-pop with elements of tropical and world music, not unlike Vampire Weekend did early in their career.
Next to the seven singles, this long-player counts four new tracks. Funnily, Movers And Shapers was the title of an EP the band released in 2018, but the EP’s title track features on this album for the first time.
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 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:
- The Cheap Thrills – Smile When You Sleep (Wildcard this week)
- Jain – Gloria (Wildcard last week)
- Magdalena Bay – Only If You Want It
- Middle Kids – Beliefs And Prayers
- Nikki’s Wives – Real Girl
- Winnetka Bowling League – Diane
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: Bastille, Fitz & The Tantrums, Heather Nova, The Kooks, Vampire Weekend, 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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 18)
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:
- Jain – Gloria (Wildcard this week)
- Hey Violet – Better By Myself (Wildcard last week)
- Bear Ghost – Haunt, The Cartoon Heart
- Kakkmaddafakka – Get Go
- Owl Eyes – You And I / Le Soleil
- Roads To Roam – For A Better Day
- Talisco – Sensation
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: Bastille, Cage The Elephant, Foals, Jade Bird, Marina, SOAK, 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.
Wildcard (week 17):
Jain – Gloria
Surprise! Eight months after her second album Souldier, Jain serves up a completely new song. Gloria is such a strong track, it’s likely to be included on a re-issue of the album soon. The French artist followed the same procedure with her debut album Zanaka, which, upon re-release, contained six additional tracks, one of them being the majestic Dynabeat.
Gloria is a personification of glory, all about staying faithful to what we are. With its Africa-influenced rhythms, it’s a festive song that already sounds like a future live staple. Until then, it’s a personal favourite of yours truly. That’s why Gloria by Jain is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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.
Bomba Estéreo & Systema Solar – Carnavalera
Bomba Estéreo and Systema Solar are two huge Colombian bands, well-known for reinterpreting their home country’s traditional sounds and starting a party wherever they perform. No need to say, then, that their one-off collaboration Carnavalera sounds like a street party anthem.
The track celebrates Carnaval season in Barranquilla, the spiritual home of the folkloric rhythm and dance known as cumbia. Their club-like take on the sounds from Colombia’s Caribbean coast can be described as electro-funk cumbia fusion.
In a press release, Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía writes: “Carnaval is the consummation of all of our cultures across Colombia and Latin America. It’s a mixture of the powerful roots that intermingle among this shared musical experience without social, sexual or racial labels. This is how the world should be all the time.”
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 7)
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:
- Billie Louise – Like Machines (Wildcard this week)
- Dua Lipa – Swan Song (Wildcard last week)
- Cassia – Small Spaces
- dodie – Monster
- -M- – Grand Petit Con
- Nadia Sheikh – Toxic
- Tessa Dixson – Beautiful Pain
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: Beck, Caravan Palace, The Heavy, Mercury Rev, 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.
Cassia – Small Spaces
Cassia are Rob Ellis (lead vocals, guitar), Lou Cotterill (bass, vocals), and Jacob Leff (drums, vocals). A British trio that combine indie-pop with elements of tropical and world music in their songs, not unlike Vampire Weekend, for instance.
In less than three years, they released ten singles and an EP. Quite some output, that brought them sold-out shows and rave reviews. But the best has yet to come. Or rather: their best yet has just come out. Small Spaces could bring them big things…
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 2)
After last week’s Carte Blanche Music Top 2018, which was Werner’s Yearly, basically, here is a brand-new edition of Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. As always, it contains the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best new releases in alphabetical order:
- The Lottery Winners – That’s Not Entertainment (Wildcard this week)
- Mokono – Signs (Wildcard last week)
- Cat Pierce – Human Experience
- Christon – Closer To A New Day
- Emmy Wildwood – Everything Hurts
- 900 Miles feat. The Kooks – Hold Tight
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: The Gift, Sofi Tukker, Sting, Reel Big Fish, 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.
