Fresh off the release of his introspective sixth record Wandering Rebel, Juan Wauters returns with Limbo out November 17th, a collection of homespun bonus tracks. The only brand new track on the EP, lead single ‘P.O.V.’ is a spirited indictment of Los Angeles’ lack of access to public bathrooms and its effect on the city’s homeless population. The other tracks on Limbo are thoughtful reinterpretations of key tracks from Wandering Rebel . A lively, full – band version...
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Beloved Uruguay-born songwriter Juan Wauters, shares his new album, Wandering Rebel, via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. There’s freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters may not have agreed with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of staying in one place: “During COVID I discovered / that I like stability,” he muses...
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Juan Wauters releases new album Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, via Captured Tracks. His fifth solo album, Real Life Situations is a delicate interplay between genre-hopping eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken observation. Mining older songs, phone notes, new material, and snippets from TV and YouTube, he’s crafted an aural document of the year through his eyes. Jubilant choruses and spoken word poetry...
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Juan Wauters shares ‘Estás Escuchando’, featuring five-time Latin GRAMMY nominated artist El David Aguilar. ‘Estás Escuchando‘ is the fourth single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, and more. Directed by Juan Molinet, the ‘Estás Escuchando’ video is a colourful expression of playful animations. Juan Wauters on ‘Estás Escuchando’: “I had heard of David when I was in Mexico recording ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo’. People there regarded him as one of the most...
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Juan Wauters shares ‘Unity’, a new collaboration with disco pop multi-instrumentalist Cola Boyy. ‘Unity’ is the third single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, El David Aguilar, and more. ‘Unity’ is a hip-hop inspired rumination on partnership and defying expectations that exudes a palpable playfulness. ‘Unity’ follows the “groove-heavy, feel-good” (Remezcla) first single ‘Presentation (with Nick Hakim and Benamin)‘, and the second single ‘Real” (with Mac Demarco)‘ which FADER called an “authentic...
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Juan Wauters announces his forthcoming album, Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, out April 30 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, Juan shares a new single and video, ‘Real (with Mac DeMarco)’. Much like preceding single/video ‘Presentation (with Nick Hakim and Benamin)’, ‘Real’ evokes nostalgia for warm days. In the video (directed by Matthew...
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Juan Wauters announces his digital EP, Más Canciones de la Onda, out June 3. With the announcement he shares the first single ‘Muy Muy Chico.’ Wauters says, “the only time I left the cities where I was during the trip when I recorded La Onda de Juan Pablo was in Chile. I travelled to the south of Chile to visit a friend’s friend. There in Pucón, in the Andes mountain...
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Juan Wauters returns with Introducing Juan Pablo… out now via Captured Tracks. Travel has always left a mark on Juan’s music. While his previous album, with its folkloric airs and Latin roots, made that clear, this is an album which at its core is an internal journey. Wauters explores his two worlds, his two languages, and his day-to-day life in his NYC neighbourhood, and his life as an artist. “At...
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Take notes from a few corners of the globe on this week’s roundup of new music. Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares the closer to her upcoming album Your Need (3 May via 2MR) – ‘Ivan Kupala (New Day).’ Electronic leaning left field pop, informed by a sense of darkness unique to Kedr’s musical-cum-geographical upbringing. Portland-based, sci-fi inspired group Reptaliens share a new track + video for ‘Venetian Blinds.’ The track...
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Juan Wauters shares the second single ‘A Volar’, from his upcoming record La Onda de Juan Pablo. The beautiful and buoyant song about “dreaming wildly” was written in Mexico City and features multiple musicians that Juan met in Garibaldi, a popular square in Mexico City where musicians for hire gather. Mexico City was one of the many stops he made along a journey throughout South and Central America over the past...
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Over the last few years, Latin American artist Juan Wauters has covered a lot of ground, both artistically and geographically. Until this point in his career, most of his songs had been sung in English, but revisiting his Latin roots inspired him to record songs in his native tongue. Juan announces the wonderful La Onda de Juan Pablo, the world of Juan Pablo Wauters, set for release on Friday 25th January. He’s...
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