WOLFGANG VALBRUN "Almighty $$" [Single] (Jalapeno)
Add Date: 2/27/2024
Release Date: 2/16/2024
FCC: Clean
Formats: Non-Comm AAA, NACC Top 200, R&B/Soul, AMA, Submodern
RIYL: Jalen Ngonda, Curtis Harding, Black Pumas, Charles Bradley
American singer-songwriter Wolfgang Valbrun follows in the footsteps of soul music’s greats.
After moving to France in his teens he found favour on the Paris circuit before being recruited as lead singer for avant-garde UK soul and jazz band ephemerals.
With ephemerals he toured the world and attracted a fervent following (as well as many millions of streams). Alongside ephemerals he also performed and wrote for French hip hop and soul legend GUTS on his Stop The Violence album after a chance meeting when they played the same stage at Glastonbury.
2020 saw a musical re-set for Wolfgang and he made a decision to start to write and record under his own name.
Having dropped his debut Love Yourself EP in late summer 2023 to support form BBC 6 Music and KCRW amongst others, Almighty $$ is the first single of 2024 leading up to the summer release of his debut album Flawed By Design.
The album is a powerful and introspective look at human frailty that straddles very blurred lines between soul, jazz and rock.
Almighty $$ examines the relationship we have with money and religion and what we humans will do to get what we need.
Musically, the crack team that Wolfgang assembled for his live band provide a raw and driving track kicking off with strident 60’s guitars before Wolf’s killer horn and rhythm sections do their maximum R&B business.