Boogie Belgique shares new single: 'Wonder'.

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  Van Muylem    30 augustus 2022

Wonder, the third single from Boogie Belgique's forthcoming album Machine, is a joyful yet nostalgic nod to their roots. In line with fan favorites like 'Goodnight Moon' and 'Forever & Ever', this modern melancholic Crooner, inspired by the 1909 Harold Orlob hit “I Wonder Who’s Kissing You Now”, mixes modern punchy beats with the best of the swing and big band era.


The track's lyrical content and emotional throughline are steeped with longing, both in a desire for bygone eras, and its depiction of a person wondering about where life has taken their former lover.  Even the track's call and response between the line "I wonder who's kissing you now" and the horn/string sections that answer suggests a conversation between two long-separated parties.

With chopped horn lines, a walking bassline, and pumping four on the floor drum groove, the listener instantly steps out of a time machine into the familiar universe of this Boogie Belgique classic in the making.

Coming from Belgium — Antwerp roots, Brussel based — Boogie Belgique has always done it their way. It's a typical Belgian talent: why follow rules when a more personal approach is far more tantalizing? It all started some 10 years ago, when three friends - Oswald Cromheecke, Cedric Van Overstraeten, Aiko Devriendt - decided to join their musical forces and take a leap of fate: compose music and try to make a living. Oswald began as an ardent bedroom producer, composed some tracks and registered as a Soundcloud user, not really sure what to expect. We all know the internet moves in mysterious ways. Some of the released tracks reached foreign dj's & radio makers, who started to push the music. It led to some success on music biogs and a big following in Greece, much to the surprise of a young Boogie Belgique.

"Could you come over and play a live set?" A simple question, and the start of a beautiful story that - today - moves hearts and makes people dance, all over the world.

Between 2013 and 2019 they played hundreds of shows and injected summers with a beautiful blend of electronic music and jazz, with hints of BonoboCinematic OrchestraFat Freddy's Drop and the intricate soulfunk of Snarky Puppy. Spread happy and sunny vibes- with a tad of melancholy and nostalgia, as an antidote to the destitute state of the world. 

Live:

26.10.22 — BOTANIQUE, BRUSSELS (BE)
29.10.22 — KIFF, AARAU (CH)
30.10.22 — ARTHEATHER, COLOGNE (DE)
31.10.22 — FRANNZ, BERLIN (DE)
01.11.22 — NOCHTWACHE, HAMBURG (DE)
04.11.22 — O2 ACADEMY, LONDON (UK)
29.11.22 — TRABENDO, PARIS (FR)

DISCOGRAPHY  
Album: Blueberry Hill (2012)                  +5 M streams  
Album: Time For A Boogie (2013)          +8 M streams 
Album: Nightwalker Vol.1&2 (2013-14)  +14 M streams 
Album: Volta (2016)                                +34 M streams 
EP: Prelude to Machine (2019)  +2 M streams 
EP: Lure of Little Voices (2019)  +350 K streams 

More than 64 million streams worldwide!

THE BAND
Oswald Cromheecke — production, guitar & live-sampling  
Aiko Devriendt — production, arrangements, keys and traverse flute 
Martijn Van Den Broeck — drums, percussion and keys  
Cedric Van Overstraeten — trumpet  
Ambroos De Schepper — soprano sax, tenor sax  
Emily Van Overstraeten — vocals and keys 

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