Today in the programme: Two TalentCast newcomers, some new songs we received from our artists, some news about upcoming events and of course our new Song of the Week winner. Last week's voting brought us a clear winner for this week, a country musician from New Zealand and soon also a TV host on Kiwi Country TV. Releasing music on vinyl is hot nowadays. This weekend the postman brought me a parcel with an LP in it. Today’s first song comes from that LP. Some good news for the people who prefer to download our podcast: Since this week we have a faster internet connection. From now on you can download TalentCast almost three times faster than before.

Arda & The Stolen Moon - Crazy bridge, Gayle Skidmore - Barrel, trigger, gun, Ophelia Syndrome - Bait and switch, Jake Aldridge featuring Lisa Ambrose - Fireman, Derk Jickface - Itty bitty ditty, New Nobility - Paradise, Alex Ganassini - Virtual love, Aly Cook - Western line, Goofy Cow - Give it up, Terra Nova - Come alive, Firesphere - Tonight, Coreign - Demons, Samuli.T.Mäkelä - Reflections

This week I will play a lot of new independent musicians and bands, and all of them joined TalentCast last week. Next to that we have received some new songs from artists who have already been played on TalentCast for a while. So, even if you are a regular listener, you will hear a lot of new tunes. On Monday the 20th, our website and mail server will be down for some hours because of maintenance work.

This week I will play you singer-songwriters, peaceful rock, folk and some electronica. We had a nice voting last week, which was mainly between two solo artists, one from Tennessee, United States and the other from Espoo, Finland. In about half an hour you will find out who they are and who else gathered the most votes when the voting ended, on Monday evening at midnight. I will start the programme with a singer-songwriter from Ireland.

Usually I don’t play the same artists too often, I like to wait a few weeks before playing a song from the same artist or band. But today I will play two artists I have played in the last two weeks because they sent me tracks from their next albums. You will also hear a newcomer from Tennessee who joined TalentCast last week, and of course I will play our new Song of the Week winner and much more attractive independent music. I will start close to home in Belgium, with a song in the Dutch language.

As I have often done in the past weeks, I have made you a programme with mainly relaxed music. I will play a newcomer to TalentCast from Germany, and music from other European countries, the United States, New Zealand, Africa and Asia. So artists from almost every continent are represented this week. I start in the US with a roots-pop singer-songwriter.

I made a relaxed programme for you this week, with country, singers-songwriters, electronica, rap and some instrumental tracks at the end. A newcomer from Rwanda joined TalentCast last week, but I will start with something else. An independent country artist from the same continent where I started the programme last week, New Zealand.

Two weeks ago I played quite some less mainstream-sounding music, and I’m happy that our listeners appreciated it! I will do it again, today during the second half of the programme. Today’s music will be quite relaxed and in about 20 minutes I will play a newcomer who joined TalentCast last week. Last week's voting was nice and brought us a winning song from The Netherlands. Somewhere halfway though the programme you will hear who is the winner. I will start far from home, in New Zealand. I played a song by this independent musician recently, but she has just released a second single from her new album.

Today the programme has divided itself into two parts. In the first part I will play relaxed independent music, like folk, fusion, rock ballads and singer-songwriters. The second part will be much less peaceful. There I will play genres like classic rock, hard rock and techno. I start with one of the best known folk bands from Poland. Perhaps our regular listeners can guess already which band that might be.

I don't play much mainstream-sounding music in TalentCast. Today I am going to play even more unusual songs than usual, and one-third of these are in another language than English. If you are open to musical discoveries, this week's edition of TalentCast is especially for you. You will also hear two artists who are new to TalentCast. One is from Luxembourg and the other lives in Japan. I will start with a song from my home country, this is a singer-songwriter who lives in the Hague.