+ + + AMV Talpa and Sundance produce new songs with Patrick Nuo + + +

„Welcome to Hollywood“ - under this motto the worldwide successful Frank and Christian Berman (e.g. "Rhythms del Mundo" with Coldplay, U2, Kaiser Chiefs, etc.) have been producing the new album of Swiss pop star Patrick Nuo in the mountains of Malibu sine May, after the signing of a long term exclusive contract between Nuo and AMV Talpa. The Swiss, who scored hits with his outstanding voice with the songs „5 Days“ and „Beautiful“, already proved to be extraordinary versatile at the recording of the demos. In the meantime he has developed into a songwriter with a distinctive style with an ear for fabulous hook lines. He is supported by a team of internationally renowned lyricists like Alan Glass (Joe *bleep*er, Lighthouse Family, No Angels, Mis-Teeq), Sandi Strmljan (No Angels, Lindenberg) and Alex Christensen, who are all absolutely enthusiastic about Patrick Nuo's qualities.

„Patrick is a great artist and songwriter. I have been a fan for a long time and am very pleased he now works closely with us. “, enthuses AMV Talpa A&R manager Jörg-Ingram Hiller.

„We have been looking for the ideal partner to produce Patrick's own songs at high international level for a long time, to play a role on the world market. In AMV Talpa we have found an independent and internationally present partner, who commits in a unique way to the songwriter und performer Patrick Nuo. That's hard to find these days. The new production will be brilliant!", commented Nuo's Manager Oliver Wirtz (Sundance) on the signing of the contract.

„Patrick is one of the few stars with international potential we have in Germany. I am convinced that we will achieve success in America together“, confirmed Manager Jens-Markus Wegener after the persistent pursuit of a long term contract.

We excitedly wait for the first results.

+++ CINEMA BIZARRE on US tour with Lady Gaga +++

At the special request and personal invitation of the artist Lady Gaga, currently No. 1 in the USA and UK, the German band Cinema Bizarre will be the special guest on the full US tour.

Cinema Bizarre, who were recently awarded as the most successful German newcomers in the EU at the European Border Breakers Award, will not only play their own set, but also a double feature in Lady GaGa's show.

The Cinema Bizarre / Lady GaGa tour totals 20 gigs from LA via Seattle, San Francisco, Tampa and New York. Cinema Bizarre will round off the tour with their own headlining gigs in  Los Angels and New York on 20 and 24 April, booked by the American booking agency The Agency Group, before the start of their own tour in autumn around the release of the 2nd album"toyZ", released in Europe via Universal Music and in the USA by Cherry Tree / Interscope.

http://www.cinema-bizarre.de/

+++ CHRIS NORMAN publishes exclusively via Edition Ingram/AMV Talpa +++

Chris Norman (ex-Smokie) has signed a long term administration contract for his back catalogue with Edition Ingram/AMV Talpa. Besides this, the artist and the publisher Jörg-Ingram Hiller (AMV Talpa) have agreed to work closely together on the production of new songs. For his „Best Of“ album (currently in the charts), Norman wrote new titles with Sandi Strmljan (Lindenberg, No Angels). The current single is „Endless Night“ and is a cover of the famous song of the musical „The Lion King“, created in close cooperation with the singers and musicians of the musical.

Chris Norman's comments on the cooperation: „I am glad to work on new songs with high pressure. And they turned out really well.“

Jörg Hiller said: „I already admired Chris in his Smokie days. He is still - as before - one of those rare artists with an irreplaceable voice. And his new compositions are fabulous!“

+++ Edition SL Allstars joins AMV Talpa +++

CRADA produces hip-hop at international level, and has recently docked at AMV Talpa via  Edition SL AllStars.

The author and producer who was trained at the 'Popakademie' already tasted his first success in Germany with „Ersguterjunge“ with Chakuza, Saad and Samy Deluxe and Raptile. He is close to commercial breakthrough with new projects he is currently creating with the Americans Talib Kweli, Anthony Hamilton and Rasul.

"New partnerships and cooperation are always inspiration, development and progress for artists.

It is not different for us as an agency and new publishers. We look forward to a great cooperation with AMV Talpa and are highly motivated by the new perspectives and opportunities“, commented manager Philipp Senkpiel (Label Starting Lineup, Edition SL Allstars) the signing of the contract with AMV.

„CRADA is not only one of the best hip-hop producers in Germany, but I also strongly believe in his cross-over potential.

I am excited that Philipp and his artists have chosen a long term cooperation with us“, said a pleased Jens-Markus Wegener of AMV Talpa.

 + + + AMV Talpa News January 2009 – Cinema Bizarre & Eisblume + + +

Cinema Bizarre with Border Breaker Award

The Hamburg publishing company ThreethirtyYeah Publishing has signed a co-publishing contract with AMV Talpa. ThreethirtyYeah partner and songwriter Daniel Nitt, who is currently active in Stockholm with his writing / producer partner Richard Darell (AMV Talpa) under the name of THE MONOTWINS, already experienced significant international success despite the only recent cooperation. In August 2008 he reached the Top 5 of the Japanese single charts with the artist Nana Tanimura.

"AMV Talpa is our absolute favourite partner, as the great hunger for success and enthusiasm is tangible", says ThreethirtyYeah  manager Martin Frei. Jens-Markus Wegener, Managing 

Director of AMV Talpa, is also "very happy about the future cooperation because the visible motivation and energy is inspiring."

In the past years Daniel Nitt was active as songwriter, producer and live keyboard player. Besides releases for DSDS-winner Tobias Regner, the King Family (in cooperation with  Dieter Falk) and Jörn Schlönvoigt, Nitt managed a recording studio in the Naidoo-Herberger Kreativzelle and worked there on the sevenfold platinum album "Telgramm für X" with Xavier Naidoo. Nitt also toured as keyboard player and musical director for national and international acts like Dante Thomas and Joana Zimmer.

+ + + AMV Talpa has a new Partner: Edition by Mr. Kai Lofthus + + +

AMV Talpa has entered into a 50/50 partnership with music industry executive Kai Lofthus in an effort to discover and develop of songs, songwriters and producers.

The Hamburg-based publisher will provide its administrative resources and international network of sub-publishers to support the new repertoire stream, named Edition by Mr. Lofthus.

Lofthus (37) worked in radio and music business journalism for 12 years, including as Billboard's Nordic Bureau Chief and a correspondent with Music & Media (1997-2002), and as a product manager in the Norwegian music industry for 10 years, where he signed deals with artists such as Susanne Sundfor (Top 3 and a mainstay on the Norwegian album chart for 23 weeks in 2007, and voted Bets Female Artist in the Norwegian Grammy Awards) and marketed records by artists like Kate Havnevik, Karin Park, Scooter, the Rasmus, and Timbuktu. Last year, he initiated and co-wrote "F***deg", the

Norwegian version af Anna David's Danish no. 1 hit "F***deg", witch went no. 1, was on the Norwegian singles chart for 19 weeks, awarded plantinum status, and nominated as Hit of the Year in the Norwegian Grammy Awards. 

Primarily based in Oslo, Norway, Lofthus will continue to own and operate the label DIG Music, which recently became a member of the IFPI and was restructured from a sole enterprise into a private stockholding company.

+ + + AMV Talpa Musikverlag signs two new high class writers (June 2008) + + +

In our endeavour to continue defying the difficult business conditions on the music market, AMV TALPA unflinchingly continues - in 2008 too - to improve our own creative structures and place quality songs via our international network - either at DSDS or in worldwide advertising campaigns. This implies high quality authors - and that's why AMV TALPA proudly announces two new exclusive author agreements.

Alan Glass, an American living in London, decided to move to AMV Talpa because he values the personal support of a great A&R-Team. Glass wrote hits for Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, George Benson, Jermaine Stewart as well as for Earth Wind & Fire, Sheena Easton and Imagination.

Since settling in London he successfully worked with Maxi Priest, the Lighthouse Family, Aswad,

Worlds Apart, Human Nature and Caught In The Act. In Germany he reached success with two titles

he wrote for the second album of No Angels.

Jens-Markus Wegener, director of AMV TALPA, commented on the deal: „I am particularly proud about this signing. Alan has been a top writer for 25 years and a personal friend of many years – and something like the flagship of our authors' fleet.“

And Alan Glass added: „The team around Jens-Markus always convinces me by its passion for

music. I hadn't had that much fun in my work for a long time.“

With Thomas Hanreich one of the most versatile German writers returns to AMV Talpa. At the recent

signing of the contract Jörg Hiller, A&R Chef of AMV Talpa, remembered the mutual past successes

with VIVID, when their lead singer Hanreich started out in his career. The band was awarded an Echo

in 1998 and reached many TOP 30 spots. With his solo project THOM. Hanreich reached the

Radio-TOP-20 in Japan. And Hanreich also notched up success as a score writer for various Wim Wenders films and the current cinema hit „Sommer“.

As co-writer with national and international greats like e.g. Carmen Rizzo, Valgeir Sigurdsson (Björk), Tim Lauer, Ray Garvey (Reamonn), Sasha, Cosmo Klein, Roland Spremberg and Stefan Gade, Thomas Hanreich worked on many hit albums and his song „Principle of Joy“ became the signature

song of a worldwide BMW-advertising campaign.

Jörg-Ingram Hiller said: „With Thomas, the first internationally successful AMV-author returns to AMV.

This surely illustrates the quality of our cooperation.“

+++AMV Talpa Musikverlag presents the synch database "Brilliant Tracks"+++

Inspired by the international success of worldwide advertising campaigns for BMW, Apple, Coca-Cola,

Nike and Audi, Daniela Gassert, Creative Manager at AMV TALPA, presented the new synch platform

"Brilliant Tracks" at the beginning of the week.

This clear online music database with the great design gives all those in the advertising, film, TV, games etc. worldwide looking for music the opportunity to discover the original published titles by AMV Talpa as well as a selected sub-published catalogue.

After a short registration and confirmation from AMV, the users of the B2B-database can for example listen to full length songs, search by keywords and create projects to which they can add individual songs in a type of ‘watch list’. „Brilliant Tracks“ - which right now includes more than 1200 high quality copyrights - is updated every week to enable reaction to all the new trends.

Daniela Gassert said in the presentation: „I look forward to working with this promising tool. Microsoft US and UK, who I introduced the concept at MIDEM to, are already excited.“

Jens-Markus Wegener, General Manager of AMV Talpa, said at MUSEXPO in Los Angelese: „Brilliant Tracks is state of the art. The technology of our partners at its base, manages 100 000 fully digitalised titles with a comparable use. We expect a significant growth of our worldwide synch income with „Brilliant Tracks“, above all because we often can clear the masters at the request of the advertising and film partners. “

Daniela Gassert presents www.brilliant-tracks.de

+++ GOLDEN GATE Management creates Music Publishing NAPA Songs+++

 

The GOLDEN GATE partners Oliver Kolb and Carol von Rautenkranz have founded Musikverlag NAPA Songs.

The first signing is the Danish band THE RIVER PHOENIX, who will release their first album in summer.
AMV Talpa will be the partner for administration and exploitation.
AMV Talpa manager Jens-Markus Wegener: "I look forward to the cooperation with Oliver and Carol.

Both have demonstrated that creative, imaginative thinking and pragmatic work achieve good results."

"The set-up of AMV Talpa for administration and song exploitation is ideal for our work", emphasises  Oliver Kolb about the choice of AMV Talpa. 

And Carol von Rautenkranz adds: "Jens and I go back a long way. In 1986 we started the  Club "Panama Ballhaus" in the centre of St Pauli, and in 1988 Jens helped with the birth of L'AGE D'OR. I am convinced that we will achieve a joint success with Napa Songs too.

The company info of the new publisher explains: the name NAPA Songs comes from Napa Valley, the traditional Californian wine region that probably produces the best overseas wines. The work of NAPA Songs follows the basic principles of the Californian wine growers; grow the best plants in an optimal environment with a steady hand, harvest them at the right maturity and press them in a well-tried way. 

The picture shows f.l.t.r.: Carol von Rautenkranz, Jens-Markus Wegener, Oliver und Nele Kolb

 

www.GoldenGateManagement.com

Contact: Hanna Jahnke, hanna@goldengatemanagement.com,

Tel.: 040 / 28 00 879 0

+++Creative strategy of AMV TALPA pays off+++

 

The Hamburg Music Publisher AMV Talpa continues to bet on creative A&R work in the ever more difficult music market environment. 

This steady strategy over the last 2 years seems to pay off now as demonstrated by the chart positions of the last few weeks.

The team of five A&R-consultants and a creative manager could show the following recent successes:

 

SUBWAY TO SALLY – “Bastard” (Album on Nuclear Blast)

Right on time for the 20th birthday of the German metal label Nuclear Blast,  Jörg Hiller's (Edition Ingram/AMV Talpa) protégés Subway To Sally entered the charts in seventh place with their album "Bastard". The band is currently on a mammoth tour of Germany.

http://www.subwaytosally.de/

 

F&K – „Die mit dem roten Halsband“ (Gimme5)

The successful dance producers Marcus Finger and Jürgen Kadel (of HACIENDA fame) have delivered the current number one of all the German dance charts, „die mit dem roten Halsband“, right on cue for the worldwide extension of their contract with AMV TALPA. The fact the new single of Giulia Siegel (Kontor) also is the product of the Hessen duo's work shows just how appreciated they are.

http://www.myspace.com/roteshalsband

 

COVENANT – “In Transit” (DVD on SPV)

"In Transit“ is not your usual Live DVD, but a road movie and simultaneous documentary of the Skyshaper Tour by the Swedish Synthpop outfit COVENANT. The DVD shows the cult tour from Europe to the States, through Russia and the South-American Andes over a period of 1 1/2 years.

The band openly talk about their music and of course we see COVENANT live on stage with incredible performances. COVENANT reached the 12th place in the German DVD charts last week with this DVD.

http://www.covenant.se/