8 Music Week 23.11.12 DATA DIGEST HONEY TO THE B


November 13, Manchester Apollo Misha B struts her stuff at a hometown gig as part of the BBC Radio 1Xtra Live series


PICTURE OF THE WEEK THE TASTEMAKERS


Today’s opinion formers predict tomorrow’s headline acts


TOBY ROGERS ARTROCKER/NME/LOUDER THAN WAR Shields • Kaleidoscope EP(Riverman Records)


This North East five-piece have friends in high places. Kylie's a fan; and she should be. The lead track from the band's new EP shines with the same disco-ball glimmer as the Aussie legend's global smash Can't Get You Out Of My Head. Recorded in their native Newcastle, it's a bold blast of tropicala-infused electro-pop.


JEREMY ALLEN STOOL PIGEON/NME Melody’s Echo Chamber • Melody’s Echo Chamber (Domino)


Melody Prochet’s debut is a labyrinthian, lysergic rush from start to finish, achingly cool and seductively psychotropic. Enlisting Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on produc- tion duties, the pair set about ‘ruining’ Melody’s melodies, and the resultant mêlée magnifique melds French pop to experimentalism; from Jane Birkin to Broadcast.


IAN PARKER FOR FOLK SAKE Feldspar • The Flat and Paper Sky Vol II (Unsigned)


Vol. II of this EP should help further the growing buzz around Feldspar. The intensi- ty and confidence of Vol.1 shines through but this London five-piece add feathers to their cap with Bright Blue Eyes and the beautiful After Hours. There’s no neat fit to label Feldspar, and you imagine that is just how they want it.


KIM HILLYARD I LIKE MUSIC Pat Dam Smyth • Friends (Monumental Music Group)


Eels meet McCartney as a lonely piano-led lament crashes into crowd-rousing, rock ‘n’ roll melody. A multi-instrumentalist, former busker and Paul Weller, Mick Jones collaborator, Belfast-born Dam Smyth is already a golden ticket at home in Ireland.


SIGNS O’ THE TIMES


BMG Chrysalis North America has signed an exclusive worldwide co-publishing deal with producer and songwriter Fuego. BMG will co-publish Chris Brown single Turn Up The Music that was produced and co-written by Fuego. In addition to Brown, the composer has worked with numerous other chart-topping artists including Shakira, Sia, Jason Derulo, Willow Smith and The Ready Set. Recently on tour with Ed Sheeran, Passenger aka


Mike Rosenberg, has extended his deal with Nettwerk Records (who already signed him for US and Canada) to include the UK. The deal will cover his album All The Little Lights, and all subsequent singles, Things That Stop You Dreaming released on December 3 and Let Her Go in support of his headlining tour in January. Following their new record


deal with PMR Records, Disclosure signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group.


 Artist The Mothers  Track name Breathe Together (Pefumlani Kunye)  Composer Nyoka / Mayekiso  Campaign Hunter  Publisher Soundtree Music / Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd  Key execs Whiskas  Music supervisor TV, cinema, online, 3 months  Key execs Brian Kelly (soundlounge), Jay James (Soundtree), Monika Weinmann (Kassner)


The current Whiskas campaign, titled Hunter, was created with distinct visuals of a Western man in an African setting. Brian Kelly was looking for a piece of music that combined the two elements. He discovered The Township Sessions, an album by The Philani Mothers. The album project was conceived by Peter Raeburn, who wanted to


raise funds and awareness for the Philani organisation, a community- based child health and nutrition organisation in Cape Town. Its sound embodied the cultural fusion Kelly was seeking, as it was written and sung in Xhosa but produced in London by, amongst others, Zero 7, Nitin Sawhney, Layo and Bushwacka! and Raeburn himself. Breathe Together was a Tom Kenyatta production and featured the vocals of one of African music’s most esteemed artists, Miriam Makeba. Brian Kelly (pictured) said: “When I heard Breathe Together I knew I had found the right track. The rhythm felt like the movement of a cat and you could feel heat from the music, while Miriam Makeba’s vocals added to the feline atmosphere. Kassner and Soundtree made sure that we were able to clear the rights quickly and efficiently and we were delighted with the finished product.”


The tale behind a standout sync deal in the industry this week… SYNC STORY


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