Juan Wauters shares "Dos" -- track of upcoming LP 'Introducing Juan Pablo' out May 31 on Captured Tracks

Juan Wauters Shares New Single "Dos"

Introducing Juan Pablo Coming May 31

on Captured Tracks

International Tour Dates Confirmed!

Photo By: Daniel Topete

Juan Wauters will release his latest, Introducing Juan Pablo, on May 31 via Captured Tracks. Today, he shares the bright and playful album track "Dos," which is sung in his native Spanish.  Of the single Wauters notes, "I recorded the song during a time in which I decided to separate from the idea of recording only at studios and come back to the comfort of recording at my own pace. On this particular version of 'Dos,' I hear the sound of a music that to describes Montevideo, the city were I was born. The harmonium solo was done in a way to emulate the sound of a bandoneon in the way Astor Piazzolla would play it.  The song talks about the complexities of a love story."  The single premiered viaRemezcla who call the track an "acoustic ode to love and its complexities." 

LISTEN TO "DOS" HERE

Wauters has previously shared "El Hombre de la Calle" and "Letter" from Introducing Juan Pablo and it is an record that serves as both a companion and a prequel to La Onda de Juan Pablo, another work Wauters released earlier this year. Of La Onda de Juan Pablo, Pitchfork noted, "He admiringly incorporates...folkloric styles, including bolero ranchero to candombe, into his own gentle, winsome synth folk. His onda spreads out generously to touch much of the world." NPR called La Onda... "picaresque in its depictions of everyday heroes and their daily quests against the decidedly frenzied backdrop of the Uruguayan singer's American transplant sensibilities."  

At the time the Introducing Juan Pablo was made, Wauters left it on stand-by, which is why its title emphasizes it origin: to present Juan Pablo and, simultaneously, to reveal his inner journey. Though Juan was born in Uruguay, he has lived in New York for years. The forth-coming  album exposes Wauters two worlds, his two languages, and his day-to-day life in the NYC neighborhood he calls home, and his life as an artist.  "At first, I wanted to show another musical face for this series of records. For me, Introducing Juan Pablo is part of a more personal search. And that has to do with migration: when you move to the United States, the second name ceases to exist. Since I moved here, I'm just Juan. But in Uruguay I'm Juan Pablo Wauters. I felt it was significant to retake my middle name."

His immigrant's side. His sense of belonging. His social life and his use of language. His need to work. And the even stronger need that his work doesn't become monotonous. His dream of another possible world: a world where all worlds fit. Juan Wauters went through all this to introduce us to Juan Pablo. They are the same person: one among the whole crowd. He is here to share his songs, his field recordings, his videos and his live performances. Everything comes from the same creative head. Everything springs up with the same intention - not intentional at all - to express himself freely.

FURTHER PRAISE FOR LA ONDA de JUAN PABLO

"(Wauters) has proved himself to be something of an unrelenting force of joy. His songs are simple little sing-alongs that bask in a youthful naivety." Esquire 

"La Onda de Juan Pablo is a rich travelogue packed into 10 effervescent tracks.... a sonically rich, emotionally textured work, driven by the relationships that organically emerged as Wauters found collaborators in every new country he visited." Nylon

"The Uruguayan-American singer-songwriter finds poetry in small moments, with low-key craftsmanship that matches his songs' quotidian subject matter." Pitchfork

EARLY PRAISE FOR INTRODUCING JUAN PABLO

"...while Wauters' lyrics, sung both in Spanish and English, speak to his immigrant experience, his music speaks to his love of his adopted home of New York City, conjuring up the folk titans who haunted the streets and coffeeshops of Greenwich Village back in the '60s."  AV Club

LISTEN to an interview with Juan Wauters on Aquarium Drunkard HERE. 

Pre-order Link for Introducing Juan Pablo HERE

Track Listing:

1. Super Talking

2. Doing Alright

3. Rubia

4.  

Letter

5. Bolero (Maurice Ravel)

6. Mystery

7. Lonely

8. Mountain

9. Jaime Tortuga

10. El Hombre de la Calle

11. Dos

12. What You Gonna Do

13. Letter (Feat. Maxine)

14. Crazy Funny (Feat. Maxine)

15. Lora

16. Straighten Up and Lose

17. Saludos

 

Juan Wauters Live Dates: 

05/15 - Leon, MX - El Callejón

05/16 - Guadalajara, MX - Café Bretón

05/17 - Guanajuato, MX - Antigua Bar
05/18 - Tijuana, MX - Cine Tonalá Tijuana
05/24 - Bogotá, CO - Espacio Odeón
05/25 - Medellín, CO - Teatro Pablo Tobón Uribe
06/09 - Paris, FR - Villet Sonique Festival
06/14-06/15 - Merthyr Mawr, UK - Camp Elsewhere Festival
07/17-07/21 - Lugano, CH - Lugano Buskers Festival
08/01-08/04 - Valle D'Itria, IT - VIVA! Festival
08/03 - Katowice, PL - OFF Festival
08/09 - Amsterdam, NL - De School
08/10 - Ghent, BE - Different Class Festival
08/16 - Leysin, CH - Hautes Fréquences
08/17 - Bioul, BE - LA Carrière Festival

10/29 - Utrecht, NL - EKKP
11/01 - Brighton, UK - Latest Music Bar
11/02 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
11/03 - Manchester, UK - The Castle
11/04 - Glasgow, UK - Nice N Sleazys
11/06 - London, UK - The Lexington
11/07 - Brugge, BE - Cactus
11/08 - Brussels, BE - Botanique, Witloof Bar
11/14 - St. Gallen, CH - Palace

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