Charlie Burg Releases Soulful Single “To Dance Is To Love”

Charlie Burg’s father gifted him a book of Ralph Waldo Emerson essays, and from one of them he pulled the inspiration behind a series of three EP’s he’s releasing over the course of a year. The names of the EP’s; One, Violet, Two, Moonlight, and Three, Fever, are taken from resonating segments of poetry within that essay.

Burg releases “To Dance Is To Love“, a soulful new single inspired by his Detroit-Motown roots.

“I grew up listening to Motown cos my parents played it all the time,” says Charlie. “I kept going back and listening to this one track, ‘Too Late to Turn Back Now’ by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, and I heard the way the snare and kick are mixed at the beginning, just super punchy and pure and honest, no crashes or frills just a really solid consistent backbeat. And I went back to this bass and drum pattern I wrote in the spring and I was stuck on it for a while in terms of what direction to take it in, but once I heard those drum sounds I’m like this is it, this is what the song needs for the energy I’m looking for. Then I decided to really lean into the Motown influence, and I asked my friend to track violin for it to give it that really nostalgic feel.”

Over these past twelve months Burg’s received an Instagram shoutout from Sam Smith and sold out his first shows in NYC at Brooklyn Bazaar and LA at Hotel Cafe. One, Violet came out in Sept 2017, Two Moonlight in July 2018 and Three, Fever will release soon.

“This is by far the most lighthearted track of the new EP,” Burg continues. “And it serves as a bridge between the songwriting style of the first two projects and that of the new project.”