Karousel Music

@karouselmusic

London based CIC. Publisher | Label (Buried Treasure) | Management | Industry Connectors | #Quizwar hosts. 600+ showcase opps for artists since 2011.
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Well that was good wasn’t it? That’s exactly why we do these nights! Great to see such a glorious mix of industry and fans - neon thanks to the incredible @wynonableach , @sophiekilburnmusic , @twotoninn and @martagrigale for making Hackney visible from space! Next up: 23rd June. We’ve been cooking, and trust us, the lineup is equally as phosphorescent. More on that imminently…! If you’re industry, get on the mailing list. Industry Golden Tickets live there. Link to sign up is in our bio. Thanks to @sesac for continuing to support new music here in the UK into our second decade together. ❤️ and to @mmf_uk for joining forces since 2018.
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20 days ago
Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Tomorrow. 21 April. Hackney. @paperdressvintage . Four acts. All moving. All next. 💥 @martagrigale 💥 @wynonableach 💥 @sophiekilburnmusic 💥 @twotoninn Industry - your Golden Ticket’s waiting. Everyone else - limited tickets via DICE / on the door. Drinks from 7. Music from 7:45. @vevacollect are joining us, and they’ve put a tab behind the bar for the first bunch through the door. If you’re a songwriter, artist, producer, or part of their team, VEVA Collect is well worth a conversation - we think it’s a potentially invaluable tool for creative teams today. Come down and have a chat with Liam. See you in the room.
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27 days ago
21 APRIL SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT: @twotoninn West London R&B - next up. Two Tone (Ruby + Dara) are already making noise off ONE release, and it’s only the start. 💫 BRIT School alumni 💫 Debut single ‘Jordans’ gaining major traction 💫 Early support from BBC Radio 1Xtra, Kiss, Represent 💫 Co-signed by DJ Target + Chuckie 💫 Momentum building fast Think classic R&B influence, modern UK edge. For labels, publishing, live + sync - get in early. 21 APRIL - @paperdressvintage 🎫 Industry Golden Tickets via the mailing list or drop Chris a message. General tickets at the link in profile.
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21 APRIL SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT: @sophiekilburnmusic Melancholic pop. Indie-rock bite. Sophie brings serious heat - backed by BBC 6 Music, Radio X, and a wave of tastemaker support. ✨ Multiple BBC Introducing “Track of the Week” ✨ BBC 6 Music + Radio X backing ✨ Recent EP: Don’t Make Me Angry ✨ New project incoming: Erratic Dancing ✨ Supported Declan McKenna + more If you’re looking for a standout alt-pop artist, make sure you’re in the room. Mgmt / labels / publishing / agents don’t miss out. 21 APRIL - @paperdressvintage 🎫 Industry Golden Tickets via the mailing list or drop Chris a message. General tickets at the link in profile. Directed by @cosmonought @sophiekilburnmusic DOP/Editor: @cosmonoughts Light Technician: @matthew_ascough Sound Engineer/Mixed by: @ed_gill_ Production Assistant: @thebesstime Photographer: @jaynormanstills
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21 APRIL SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT: MARTA @martagrigale is bringing internationally-minded, hook-heavy pop with serious credentials behind it, all the way from Latvia no less. 🌟 2x Pop Album of the Year nominee (Latvian Music Recording Awards) 🌟 Building a global fanbase (‘Martinis’) 🌟 Writing across the UK + Europe 🌟 New album OUT NOW: Wrong Woman (According to the Rule Book) Labels / publishing / sync / agents / producers and other artists and songwriters get ahead of the curve. 21 APRIL - @paperdressvintage 🎫 Industry Golden Tickets via the mailing list or drop Chris/Kaya a message. General tickets at the link in profile.
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21 APRIL SHOWCASE SPOTLIGHT: @wynonableach “Crunchy bubblegrungers” with serious momentum. Wynona Bleach hit the stage ahead of their second album Animal Style (out May 29) - already building transatlantic noise. 💥 Fierce Panda Records 💥 Recorded with Bill Ryder-Jones 💥 Supported Alice in Chains 💥 SXSW + NYC + Nashville showcases 💥 Propeller Sound (US) If you’re a live agent - these guys are one to jump on now. Catch them before the album lands. 21 APRIL - @paperdressvintage 🎫 Industry Golden Tickets via the mailing list or drop Chris/Kaya a message. General tickets at the link in profile.
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1 month ago
We did it! (well they did it!) Congratulations to @wakeuptom @mattjabrooks @paulonguitar and @graemeblevins - for the rest of your lives you can say you are number one songwriters; and players on one of the great records of our times! Congratulations to @raye who is blazing a trail in her artistry, her treatment of writers, and in giving hope to independent artists who thought their dream had been crushed. You will overcome! So proud that our @karouselmusic and @wixenmusicuk family have built a community together to be a home for writers like this, and overjoyed to get to work with you in my role at @sesac . And I’m just as proud, every day of my life in various guises to also work with greats like @rubyduffmusic @jamiedoe_themagiclantern @mattdeightonofficial @patdamsmyth @samantha_whates @charliewoodofficial @rorysimmonsmusic @mradambeattie @ana_silvera @ajad90125 and Romy Deighton, Gary Carpenter. Great artists and writers don’t always get this spotlight, but their struggle, joy and truth is just as real. A time comes. Congrats also @livthompsonbass ! There’s a lot of love shimmering down my cheeks today. Thanks again to @stuartongley @scottjonesstudio @popcd @gabriellenb @kaya__isis for all your help, as well as @wgypsygirl @bethrandow @taniakawalit @hehirpix @ash_lee_brown Love to @dougmcdoo and @rogweiler who were there when we formally set the publishing up 12 years ago or so. If I could find his handle, James Sinclair too. Phew. Anxiety overload that I forgot someone.
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1 month ago
What are you doing on the 21st?! Pin your ears back and get ready for @sophiekilburnmusic , @twotoninn , @wynonableach and @martagrigale on the 21st April, as we get back into the East LDN showcase swing at @paperdressvintage with @sesac and the @mmf_uk . Latvian singer-songwriter Marta opens the night with a freshly released album and two previous Pop Album of the Year nominations at the Latvian Music Recording Awards under her belt. Wynona Bleach follow ahead of their hotly anticipated second album, out 29th May on both sides of the Atlantic. Sophie Kilburn brings her fiery indie-pop fresh off BBC 6 Music support with a new EP on the way. And Two Tone will close things out; the West London R&B duo Radio 1Xtra are already on after just one single. Tickets and playlist at the link in profile. If you’re industry make sure you’re signed up to our list.
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1 month ago
I can't put in words what a moment it would be for us to get a number 1 record for some of our songwriters/musicians. @raye has outsold the rest of the Top 5 combined in the midweeks, and there's 700m or so streams to add (and that's just on Spotify) so you have to really hope there's a chance here! What could be more deserving than a record performed by an artist of this class, talent, and empathy - an antidote to our times - who has kept her promise to give co writes to some of her band, and master points to her co writers. It's a revolution weaved out of love, compassion and decency. So excited about it, for all our guys, as well as Rachel, (even if I've never met her - you feel like you know her from the lyrics and interviews). ❤️🔥❤️
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So proud that today four of our Karousel family see songs they wrote with the genius that is @raye go out into the world. Record of the year, surely! We built Karousel without a single penny of investment or funding. Built on pure love, experience, contacts, friendships and a potent antidote brewed from our own experiences as writers and artists all those years ago... and built for the extraordinary humans who bring music into our lives and make them better - both writers and musicians. Some of them became a part of that family, and many of them still are. We’re a nimble, boutique family setup, but we have the apparatus internationally to do the best possible job in collecting every penny for our writers because of our 12 year+ relationship with our admin partners @wixenmusicuk ,who we would recommend to anyone (and do!) But also because of both the support on our showcases from @sesac , and because we set things up the right way under the guidance of our generous, kind, and ever present publishing legend and mentor @stuartongley at @sgo_music All being well, we’ll now be able to fulfil our mission of giving some non recoupable help to some songwriters deserving of it - it’ll take some time for that to filter in from all the PRO’s around the world, but it will. Congratulations @wakeuptom who also plays on, arranges/conducts so much of Raye's stuff; @mattjabrooks one of the world's great drummers who has been with Raye since the very early days; @paulonguitar , absolute guitar legend who also plays on the record and has been a longtime member; and Sax legend @graemeblevins , long time band member, and also a brilliant writer/producer himself. Here's to an amazing year of festivals and touring! Love from TEAMK: @chasheehan , @scottjonesstudio , @popcd and @kaya__isis at @karouselmusic @wixenmusicuk @WixenMusic photo credit Aliyah Otchere
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1 month ago
9 days to go until the magnificent @raye releases the album of a generation. We’re so proud to publish @wakeuptom @mattjabrooks @paulonguitar and @graemeblevins who have all contributed the most sublime writing and performance across the album. We’ve fought for over a decade to help those unsung heroes who help the greatest artists to their peak - the band members, professional musicians, ‘session players’ - call them what you will. Amongst the other truly great things about RAYE, is the fact that she recognises the contribution made by these wonderful Musicians at the top of their game to her own music. Everything she preaches at places like @ivorsacademy is what she puts into practice. She includes writers where a genuine contribution has been made and then as she said we all should at the awards, she follows up with master points for writers too. With leaders like this we can change this industry one song at a time, and change the world around us one song at a time, for the better. What a legend. What many people don’t realise is that Karousel Music is a community interest company and the small share that we collect for our work for our writers will go back into services - and all being well some non-recoupable grants - for songwriters and musicians who really deserve it, and really need it. That was the promise we made 15 years ago and we intend to keep it. Congrats Tom, Matt, Graeme and Pauly! Photo Credit: BETHANMILLERCO @bethanmillerco
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1 month ago
Best laid plans! Today was going to be a day that summed up my existence in Music. I had planned to scoot over to the Notting Hill Arts Club to see wonderful new discovery @sophiekilburnmusic whose EP I love. You must check her out and get along tonight if you can! Then I was somehow going to try and tear over to the O2 arena because today four of our Karousel gang will be on stage with an artist who is for me without question the defining artist and leader of her entire generation, @raye The kindness, compassion, empathy and decency that runs through her entire way of being an artist will change our industry for the better, forever, I’m sure of it. 15 years as a CIC and today one of our family, the incredible @wakeuptom Tom Richards, who I’m proud to say is also part of the SESAC family, sees a song he has a fantastic writing credit on go into the world, already at number 1 on iTunes and you’d suspect will follow in the official album charts. 🤞 @mattjabrooks @paulonguitar and @graemeblevins have writing on the record too, and just wait till you see them as a band live. You just won’t believe what you are seeing. I’ve said since the moment I first went into the Studio that professional musicians / band members / session players etc are the heartbeat of this industry and so often not celebrated like they should be. Raye does that. She recognises the people around her, for their actual contributions. Our dream with Karousel was always that one day some of our writers would have enough success that we could put that back into deserving writers and artists that hadn’t had a break yet, or who needed help getting back on the horse … without it being old school recoupable, and we’re crossing everything to make that happen with our little parts of this record. Kindness begets kindness, and RAYE is the standout example of how to treat musicians, fans and collaborators. Congrats Tom, Matt, Pauly and Graeme from SESAC and Karousel! As it happens, my own greatest cowrites, my two children have given me flu and I can hardly move so I’m missing all of it! 🤷🫠❤️
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