We definitely don't wanna be okay without listening to music from American singer-songwriter Charlie Burg!
And guess what? He and the Blue Wave band are in Manila to give their Filipino fans a night to remember. Ahead of their show tomorrow, Charlie and the band's bassist Nate Holloway joins us on New Day.
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And guess what? He and the Blue Wave band are in Manila to give their Filipino fans a night to remember. Ahead of their show tomorrow, Charlie and the band's bassist Nate Holloway joins us on New Day.
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00:00 Well, we definitely don't want to be okay without listening to music from American singer-songwriter Charlie Berg.
00:05 And guess what? He and the Blue Wave band are in Manila to give their Filipino fans a night to remember.
00:10 So ahead of their show tomorrow, Charlie and of course his band's bassist, Nate Holloway, joins us here on New Day.
00:16 Well, welcome to the Philippines.
00:19 Thank you so much.
00:20 How has it been so far? You guys have been touring Southeast Asia for the very first time.
00:24 Mm-hmm. That's right.
00:25 Yeah.
00:26 It's been amazing. I mean, we're so grateful to be out here.
00:29 It's like, it's just pretty surreal.
00:31 I mean, did you guys ever think that you would be as awesome as you guys are?
00:36 I mean, here in the Philippines, I mean, coming from, you know, like Detroit or New York.
00:42 Yeah, I think we'd make it out here someday.
00:44 Yeah, somehow.
00:44 There's definitely a hope of ours.
00:45 Yeah, but it definitely happened sooner than expected.
00:48 Yeah, well, so Nate here, you have been with Charlie way back when, since college days.
00:54 Yeah, for five or six years now.
00:56 Yeah.
00:56 And go ahead.
00:57 One of the first shows we ever played together was in Jakarta.
01:00 Okay.
01:01 We played at the Java Jazz Festival.
01:02 Yeah.
01:03 Five years back, and that's kind of when we really saw the career come to fruition and see it as a real possibility.
01:11 I mean, it is incredible.
01:12 Jakarta is probably one of your biggest fan base, and Quezon City here in the Philippines is like your second.
01:19 That's true.
01:20 Yeah, I don't quite have an explanation for it.
01:24 As to why, as to why.
01:26 It is so amazing, but you are going to be doing a show at the Balcony Music House.
01:31 How excited are you?
01:32 I mean, this is probably one of the most up-and-coming gig plays, like here in the Philippines.
01:40 Yeah, we're so excited.
01:42 I mean, it's going to be a full-length set.
01:44 We love playing like an hour and a half.
01:45 So, yeah, it's our first time here.
01:48 It's going to be really fun.
01:49 Okay, so tell me a little bit.
01:51 You do have a single that's out.
01:53 Yes.
01:54 Tell me about that song.
01:56 I understand that it was a song that you had way back when.
01:59 Yeah.
02:00 It wasn't just you just kind of wrote it.
02:02 Yeah, "Before We Step Inside" is what it's called.
02:06 I think I found myself a little uninspired on what I was writing at the time.
02:11 So I looked back in my archives and found that old voice memo and decided to produce it out.
02:17 Yeah, and then the rest is history.
02:19 I mean, it is just out now.
02:21 It is just doing so well.
02:23 The phenomenon of the social media is also incredible for you.
02:27 Yeah.
02:28 I mean, you've had your songs released way back in 2016, "Peter's Attic," live in Peter's Attic.
02:35 And then you had all of these songs that were there.
02:38 Yeah.
02:38 Only for it to be rediscovered once again.
02:41 Yeah, it's true.
02:42 It's definitely, we live in an interesting music era now when things get rediscovered at any given time
02:49 and you kind of got to be prepared to support it again.
02:53 But sometimes singing songs that I wrote when I was 19 is an interesting experience,
02:57 but we find new ways to reinterpret it.
03:01 So what do you say to yourself?
03:03 Like, "Oh, I was going through all of that."
03:05 Not so cringy, no?
03:07 Yeah.
03:08 It was all these new, young love type of experiences.
03:14 Right.
03:14 I mean, I think everything is about context.
03:19 You just find new ways to relate to your own art and have grace for who you used to be.
03:24 Yeah.
03:25 And you as well, you have a single that is out, you're following.
03:28 I mean, you're just...
03:30 How excited are you as well?
03:32 I am so excited about just everything that is happening on this tour and everything to come.
03:39 And, you know, it's just amazing to be out here and to be able to experience everything.
03:46 Yes. I mean, you know, we Filipinos, we just love the type of music that you produce.
03:52 All of these soul, sentimental, heartfelt, honest lyrics.
03:59 I mean, I could just go on and on.
04:01 I mean, we have like the Lainey's and the Hans and the Preps,
04:05 and then they all have Bruna Major, and it's all that type of songs.
04:10 How is it...
04:11 How do you come up with songs like this?
04:13 Your storytelling, I mean, it definitely seems to be innate in your DNA.
04:18 Well, yeah, I mean, I guess I grew up in the Detroit area.
04:23 So my dad was playing Motown and Soul Records growing up, and Al Green, Temptations,
04:28 even Joni Mitchell, like for lyricism.
04:31 These are artists that kind of became the fabric of my artistic expression.
04:35 And honestly, yeah, I don't think we try to make jazzy, soulful music.
04:42 This is kind of like, we can't help it.
04:46 That's just where you go. Do you plan to stay on this?
04:49 Okay, there's no... When it comes to your music, there's like no genre.
04:52 I mean, you are genre airbending.
04:57 Well, thank you.
04:58 That's one of my favorite things about playing with Charlie.
05:00 You know, it's just such a different spans of different types of music.
05:04 And like the show is from rock to jazz to R&B.
05:08 Yeah, it's just such an exciting time.
05:11 Yeah, I think we're music consumers first and foremost.
05:14 You know, we're music lovers.
05:15 So we go to shows, we acknowledge the things that we admire about different genres.
05:21 And whether or not we want to do a ballad or, you know, turn up the distortion,
05:26 it's like, you got to put on a good show.
05:28 Okay, so your album just came out last year.
05:31 Yes.
05:31 Infinitely Tall.
05:33 That's right.
05:33 Okay, tell me a little bit about that.
05:35 I mean, as I understand, it was like broken down into three parts of your life.
05:40 Yes, exactly.
05:41 Nothing on Tennyson though.
05:44 We went to school relatively near each other.
05:47 That's right, for a year.
05:49 Yeah, I think the album just became a culmination of different moments in my life
05:55 where I came to understand myself.
05:57 And I associated each chunk of the album with like different spaces,
06:03 the different houses that I came to be in throughout my life.
06:07 And yeah, I think it was a way of parceling everything up from the last few years and moving on.
06:15 And so now your fans get to enjoy this album, hear it for the very first time.
06:19 I mean, well, not the very first time, but live at least.
06:21 Yes, live. That's right, live.
06:23 Live at least.
06:24 I mean, you're going to be doing the whole album.
06:26 We're going to be doing a few album cuts, but then also a few like older hits.
06:32 Yeah, like I Don't Want To Be Okay.
06:33 Exactly.
06:34 Definitely.
06:34 Got to play that one.
06:35 You have to play that one.
06:36 Yeah, which is an oldie.
06:37 It seems like a national anthem.
06:38 Okay, so now that you guys are here in Manila, things that you'd like to try.
06:43 You've had some ube stuff.
06:45 Oh, yeah.
06:46 Ube sago.
06:47 Yeah, it was delicious.
06:49 Our promoter, Peter, brought us out to dinner last night,
06:52 and he ordered us so many different dishes.
06:55 It was amazing.
06:56 We had sea snails.
06:57 Yeah, pork knuckles.
06:58 Sea.
06:59 Oxtail.
07:00 Yeah, there was an incredible place.
07:02 We were really impressed.
07:03 Well, definitely something you can always bring back to Michigan.
07:06 Yeah, we're foodies.
07:07 We're big foodies.
07:08 I used to be a chef before I played music,
07:11 and that's one of our favorite parts of tours,
07:13 just exploring different cultures through food.
07:16 And moving forward, you have this album.
07:19 Your single just came out.
07:22 A new album, more tours like you guys are planning to do?
07:25 I think we're a little bit in an off cycle after this,
07:28 so it's time to write and take a break and recollect our aims, our goals.
07:39 Yeah, every artist needs a little bit of step back from music.
07:43 So I think for a few months, that's what's going to happen.
07:46 Just to think about what we want to do next
07:48 and where we want to take our careers, really.
07:51 And we don't know that yet.
07:53 Not quite.
07:55 But that being said, definitely some really cool stuff in the works.
07:59 Okay.
08:00 What's the best thing that you guys like about music, making music?
08:06 Wow, that's...
08:06 I think off the top of my head, just the opportunity to travel
08:11 is really one of the most amazing things that could have come from music.
08:15 It's really surreal that we got to do this.
08:19 Yeah, love to travel, love to collaborate
08:21 and learn things from different artists and producers.
08:23 And connect.
08:24 I mean, people just connect to your song, they live through your songs.
08:28 I mean, it is like...
08:29 Absolutely.
08:30 You know, one thing that they always enjoy.
08:31 Thank you so much for spending your precious time with us here in the Philippines on New Day.
08:37 Do invite your millions, trillions of fans to come and check you out tomorrow at the Balcony Music.
08:45 Balcony Music House, 8pm.
08:47 Tomorrow at 8pm.
08:48 We are playing a really good show.
08:50 Wonderful, wonderful.
08:51 Thank you so much, you guys, for being with us.