SONIC QUIVER JOINS DEP FAMILY

There are a lot of production music libraries out there but our clients know that we select to represent only the very best of these libraries; not for us home-studio produced libraries with rhythm boxes! We are glad to announce that we have signed a subpublishing deal with Sonic Quiver, the new, upcoming label from Florida. Though only 17-album young, Sonic Quiver has been making waves in the world of music supervisors for its fresh, adventurous productions. They have also a surprising SFX line. Check them out at : http://www.sonicquiver.com

— Posted by AF on June 04, 2009


Namgyal Lhamo to open for H. H. the Dalai Lama

DEP singer/songwriter Namgyal Lhamo will perform in presence of H. H. the Dalai Lama on the occasion of the Night Of Tibet on June 5 in the Melkweg Max in Amsterdam. http://tinyurl.com/osb7r3

— Posted by AF on May 26, 2009


DEP to administer the music of Warner Bros. catalogue

Effective 1st April 2009, DEP will administer the music of one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. This includes music from many successful films such as Batman, Harry Potter (one of the highest grossing film series of all time) and Lord of the Rings and TV Series such as ER, Gossip Girl and Smallville. In 2008, Warner Brothers broke the all-time studio record, grossing $1.753 billion breaking the previous record of $1.711 billion set by Sony in 2006.

— Posted by AF on April 29, 2009


BLUE FROG ENTRUSTS ITS PUBLISHING TO DEP

DEP has signed a worldwide publishing deal with Blue Frog, India’s most exciting integrated music project in Mumbai consisting of the country's premiere live music performance club, four state-of-the-art music recording soundlabs and record label & artist management service. The catalogue comprises top-notch composers-musicians-producers Ashutosh Phatak, Sanjay Divecha and Dhruv Ghanekar.

— Posted by AF on April 22, 2009


Deal with Experience Hendrix

DEP has acquired the subpublishing for South Asia of all works written by Jimi Hendrix. The deal starts from January 1, 2009. The sub-publishing was earlier with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

— Posted by AF on March 22, 2009


DEP represents Bob Marley songs

Deep Emotions is incredibly proud to represent the high profile Blue Mountain Music, established in 1962 by Chris Blackwell of Island Records. The Bob Marley songs catalogue is the cornerstone of Blue Mountain Music, which contains also the finest Jamaican songwriters such as Burning Spear - One of the most brilliant and respected roots artists in Jamaica's history -, Toots and the Maytals - another key figure and longest serving reggae band -, and Black Uhuru - the first reggae band to win a Grammy award, for their 1983 album Anthem - and many others. Blue Mountain publishes also the works of such great songwriters as Manu Chao, Salif Keita or Baaba Maal...

www.bluemountainmusic.tv

— Posted by AF on January 15, 2009


NAMGYAL NOMINATED FOR AWARD

Namgyal Lhamo has been nominated Best World Music Act of Holland/Belgium for the Mixed Awards to be held in Amsterdam on 14 February 2009. Vote online for Namgyal at : http://tinyurl.com/5rjont

Also, the video of her latest track Paradise Lost from the forthcoming album Highland Supernova has been selected as an entry in the Asian Hot Shots Berlin 2009 Festival to be held from January 13 to 19. Check out their website : www.asianhotshotsfestival.com/eng/

Check out the video at : http://in.youtube.com/user/namgyallhamo

— Posted by AF on January 06, 2009


Funny video using Tunak

Daler Mehndi's song "Tunak Tunak Tun" has been hugely popular on the Net and used hundreds of times on videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere. Here is a newly posted funny video "Europe Burnout vs Iraq burnout" where the second song is Tunak.
http://tinyurl.com/5fv6an

— Posted by AF on July 31, 2008


Mechanical right agreement for India

Universal Music Publishing Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have entered into an unprecedented deal regarding mechanical royalties in India and digital royalties in Southeast Asia and India. This arrangement creates a new precedent in India where, for the first time, a record company has agreed to pay mechanical royalties to songwriters and publishers on the sale of records. This deal will greatly benefit the songwriters of Deep Emotions Publishing and all the catalogues that we subpublish in India.

— Posted by AF on January 29, 2008


Two Eyes Press reviews

Who knew anything realized by two ex-Adam Ant sidemen could be relevant and enjoyable? This single — an apparent preview of a forthcoming album — features Ants guitar impresario Marco Pirroni with latter day bass player Chris Constantinou ( (DeNiro back in the day) teaming with Bollywood belter Mehndi. to create something actually really new — Hindipunk.
http://shuffleboil.com/tag/daler-mehndi/

This fierce bhangra-rock crossover rules. Fire up!
David McNamee, The Guardian’s “Pick of the Week” 2-11-07

The most infectious Asian crossover since Punjabi MC’s Beware of the Boys.
Mark Strippel, Music Week


— Posted by AF on December 21, 2007


Another Award for Namgyal Lhamo !

Singer/songwriter Namgyal Lhamo has been awarded Best Female Solo Artist from India/Tibet at the 2007 International Music Awards held by Musicaid along with American partners BroadJam Inc. Her power-house track Changkha from the newly released The Enchanted Land (Silk Road) ushered in votes from International audiences through a complex and detailed voting system that lasted over 50 days.

On the award Lhamo said : I wish to thank the numerous people who have loved my music and voted for me and above all my publishers Deep Emotions (India) for giving me the platform and space to perform from the heart.

A rare occasion when Tibet has found a mention in a major international music award category.

Earlier this year, she won the Best Female Artist Award at the 2007 Tibetan Music Awards. www.musictibet.com

www.musicaidawards.com

http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/namgyal_lhamo_wins_internationa
l_award
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=18814&article=Tibetan+Namgyal+Lha
mo+Wins+International+Music+Award

In German : http://www.welt-musik.net/?p=1247

— Posted by AF on December 10, 2007


Namgyal Lhamo headlined at The Philip Glass Festival

DEP songwriter and Tibetan singer extraordinaire Namgyal Lhamo will perform in a 'double bill' on 26 and 27 October at the Philip Glass Festival in Groningen (Holland), co-produced by The Orchestra of the Northern Netherland (www.nno.nu). The concert of the 27th with the Orchestra will be broadcast by NPS radio 4 (semi-live).

26 October : Nieuwe Kerk Nieuwe kekhof 1
27 October : De Oosterpoort Trompsingel

See her profile on Phayul :
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=17857&t=1&c=1

A recent in interview of Namgyal :
http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/interview_tibetan_singer_namgyal_lhamo

Some recent articles on Namgyal :
http://www.himalmag.com/2007/october_november/namgyal_lhamos_nightingale_mission.html
http://raveindia.com/0708_RW.aspx
http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/namgyal_lhamo_pure_2007
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=19&id=188337&usrsess=1
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun282007/panorama200706279762.asp
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/07/03/stories/2007070350350300.htm
http://therecordmag.com/jun2007/revnam.htm

In German :
http://www.welt-musik.net/?p=867
http://www.welt-musik.net/?p=869

In Japanese :
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2636753

In Hungarian :
http://www.papiruszportal.hu/site/?lang=1&f=&p=23&n=1715

— Posted by AF on September 24, 2007


Daler Mehndi in studio for brand new album

Daler Mehndi has been in London's Raezor Studios cutting new tracks for his forthcoming album Thieves And Liars. Produced by The Wolfmen - www.thewolfmen.net - and mixed by Steve Musters (Amy Winehouse, PJ Harvey, Paul McCartney, The Sugababes, etc.), it is promises to be real 'epoch making', a tectonic shift in Indian pop. His first track Two Eyes [Do Naina] has been charting the BBC Asian Network chart for 8 weeks, including 4 weeks at no. 1. It was released today on iTunes in the category 'alternative'. Check out Bobby Friction's blog, complete with the video and the photos of the recording session.

Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/asiannetworkmusic/2007/08/theives_and_liars_when_i_gatec.shtml
Photos: http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/friction/galleries/1086/

— Posted by AF on September 17, 2007


Namgyal Lhamo's albums released in Europe

Namgyal Lhamo's two albums - Pure and The Enchanted Land - have been released today in Europe and the USA by the prestigious label Harmonia Mundi. Namgyal will perform in Paris on September 21 for the launch of the albums. Her works are published by Deep Emotions and her sound recordings are licensed to Silk Road. A new album Anthology is under production as well as a new lounge music album.

— Posted by AF on September 02, 2007


The largest source for production music in India

With the addition of eight new libraries - Access Music, Cute (Red Igloo), Gotham Music Library, Headspace, Hollywood Music, Killer Latino, OneMusic, Velocity - DEP publishes now 50 libraries representing over 4,350 CDs, making us, by far, the single largest source for production music and SFX sounds in India and SAARC countries. TV stations, film producers, radio networks, production houses, recording studios, ad agencies, documentary film-makers, and web designers are among our existing clients.

We represent the following libraries: Access Music, Amusicom, Atmosphere, BMG Zomba Production Music, Boosey & Hawkes Post Production Music, Bruton, Cavendish Music, Chappell, Chronic Trax, Connect, Cute, Dennis Music, EVO, Firstcom, Focus Music, Fontana, Fulton Avenue Music, Galerie, Gotham Music Library, Headspace, Hollywood Music, Intervox, Jarian Music, JRM Music, Killer Edge, Killer Latino, Killer Tracks, Koka Media, Leading Tone Music, Lo Editions, Match, Mediatracks, Megatrax, Moments, Musica Sensacional, Musique & Music, Network, Network Production Elements, Network Sound Effects, New York Beats/Not Just Jingles, OneMusic, OneTrackaDay, Slam!, SongsToYourEyes, Sonic Destiny, Sound-Pol, Stock Music, Velocity, Westar Music Library and Zero To Sixty (ZTS).

— Posted by AF on August 03, 2007


Achille Forler named MD of Universal Music Publishing India

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) today named Achille Forler as managing director of its new Indian operations. He will report directly to Andrew Jenkins, the Executive Vice President of International in London. Deep Emotions Publishing will be renamed Universal Music Publishing India, with Mr. Forler remaining a shareholder.

Achille Forler and the Deep Emotions team have administered some of the greatest music catalogues for many years already and we have a great respect for the work they have done, said Mr. Jenkins. I fully expect our joint venture company to sign up the most exciting and innovative songwriters working in India today. He represents the very best in executive talent and I am sure that the services he’ll provide our songwriters and composers will be second to none. We are focused on creating not only the largest music publisher in the world, but the best, and that means having the most innovative and creative executives on our front lines, stated Mr. Jenkins.

— Posted by AF on July 23, 2007


DEP songwriter wins Award

Namgyal Lhamo won the Best Female Singer Award at the Tibetan Music Awards 2007. Namgyal Lhamo is newly signed to Deep Emotions Publishing. Her two new albums - Pure and The Enchanted Land - have been released last month in India and are set to be released on August 30 in Europe by Harmonia Mundi and a few weeks later in the USA by World Village. A third album, Anthology, will be ready for release in the first quarter 2008.

www.namgyallhamo.com
www.myspace.com/namgyallhamo

— Posted by AF on July 06, 2007


Court denies injunction in defamation suit against DEP

On April 17, the Indian Express published an article on DEP's managing director wherein he defended the rights of lyricists/composers and underlined the need to improve the administration of copyrights in the Indian film and music industries.

Two wellknown Bombay-based record companies, TIPS and Venus, both of them members of the Governing Council of the Indian Performing Rights Society, gathered the impression that the statements applied to them and filed a defamation suit against DEP and the Indian Express group of newspapers in the Calcutta High Court seeking ad interim injunction, claiming "disparaging and/or defamatory statement" following which "lyricists and producers of films will decide as to whether or not to deal with [TIPS and Venus]." And, hence "loss and damages."

Today, after listening to all parties, the Hon'ble judge declared: "[...] I am of the opinion that the petitioners have not made out a prima facie case of defamation. Therefore, no injunction is required to be passed [...]" (Vide: G.A. No.1681, 1745 & C.S. No.132 of 2005).

— Posted by AF on June 17, 2005


Delphine renews agreement

Editions Delphine, the publisher of songwriters Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint and Jean Baudlot, authors of such evergreens like Ballad for Adeline, L for Love or Heart in the stars, all performed by celebrated pianist Richard Clayderman, has renewed its subpublishing agreement with DEP.

— Posted by AF on April 15, 2005


Deubas and Azul sign with DEP

Brazil's largest publisher of South American music, Deubas, has assigned its entire catalogue of musical works to DEP for the territories of South Asia. Together with the earlier acquisition of Colombia's Discos Fuentes, France's Vampisoul and International Melodies Geneva, DEP now administers all of South America's greatest songs, covering all genres, from salsa to merengue to reggae.

— Posted by AF on February 15, 2005


DEP on IPRS Governing Council

DEP Managing Director, Achille Forler, has been elected to the Governing Council of the Indian Performing Rights Society, defeating other candidates by a wide marging.

— Posted by AF on October 05, 2004


DEP signs India's third largest catalogue

DEP has signed a worldwide publishing agreement for all the works of India's oldest record companies : Hindusthan Musical Products Ltd. and Indian Record Manufacturing Company. Hindusthan set up in 1932 the first professional recording studio in India with German equipment and a German sound engineer. The studio was inaugurated by Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore who recorded there many of his own songs. Over the decades, the place became one of the most favoured destinations of songwriters. It is here that the legendary K.L. Saigal and S.D. Burman wrote their songs.

The combined catalogues contain 9000 Bengali songs, 7000 Tamil songs, 1200 Punjabi songs, 1000 Hindi songs, 500 Marathi songs and over 2000 songs in other regional languages, making them the third largest source of Indian repertoire.

— Posted by AF on June 06, 2004


DEP M.D. to address UNCTAD meeting in São Paulo

DEP’s managing director has been invited to address the Workshop on Cultural Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries on June 9 in São Paulo on the theme The view from ground zero: cultural entrepreneurship in a developing country (India).

The conclusions of the Workshop will then be put up for deliberation at UNCTAD XI on 13 June. The objective is to create a Global Observatory of Creative Industries in order to promote awareness of ‘best practices’, to improve the policy environment and promote investment in creative industries.

— Posted by AF on June 06, 2004


DEP signs Biswajit Roy Choudhury

Reputed sarod player and composer, Biswajit Roy Choudhury, signed a publishing agreement with DEP. His latest two compositions Fraction and Sunset at Sohna will be included on popular French jazz band Mukta's new album to be released by Warner Jazz France.

— Posted by AF on May 18, 2004


DEP increases sub-publishing deals

Today, DEP has subpublishing agreements in the following territories :
- USA
- Canada
- Japan
- Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- France, S.A.C.E.M. territories, including Radio Europe N°1, RTL French Service, Monaco and Andorra.
- Spain, Portugal
- United Kingdom, Eire, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia.
- Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- South-East Asia, including Hong Kong.
- South Africa – Zimbabwe – Namibia - Mozambique - including all territories administered by SAMRO.

— Posted by AF on February 25, 2004


XIIIbis Music agreement

XIIIbis Music, one of the finest independent music publisher in the world, owner of catalogues like Rive Droite Music UK and Right Bank Music USA, which include songs performed by Cher (Believe, Dove l'amore, Strong enough, This is a song for the lonely...), Enrique Iglesias (Rhythm Divine, Bailamos, Hero, She Be The One...) etc... has assigned its catalogues to DEP for the Indian subcontinent.

— Posted by AF on February 10, 2004


Cover version of Sting's A thousand years

Saregama (ex-HMV) released a cover version in hindi language of Sting's A thousand years (co-administered by DEP) by Australia-based Raghav in his debut album For the first time.

— Posted by AF on November 09, 2003


New signings

DEP has acquired new titles performed, among others, by the following artists :
50 Cent, All 4 One, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Atomic Kitten, Bob Marley, Boyz II Men, Craig David, Cypress Hill, Destiny's Child, Earth, Wind & Fire, Eminem, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, Geri Halliwell, Groove Armada, Ice Cube, Jay Z, Jennifer Lopez, Kool And The Gang, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Mel C, Michael Bolton, Michael Jackson, Mike & The Mechanics, N Sync, Nat King Cole, Natalie Imbruglia, Nelly, Pavarotti, Phil Collins, Puff Daddy, Randy Crawford, Robbie Williams, Santana, Sarah Vaughan, Simply Red, Spice Girls, T L C, The Hollies, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tina Turner, Toni Braxton, Toto, Westlife, Whitney Houston, Will Smith, Willie Nelson

— Posted by AF on October 20, 2003


Virgin releases DEP songwriters' album

Virgin India released Escape the roar, the first album of SKINNY ALLEY, the band of Calcutta-based DEP songwriters Gyan Singh - Jaya Singh - Amit Dutta. The occasion was marked by a live interview of Jaya, the lead singer of the band, on prime-time 9 PM news by "24x7", the nationwide news channel.

— Posted by AF on July 21, 2003


DEP signs new composer

DEP has signed composer Bhargav Mistry. The recording of his first work, a musical rendering of the mystical poems of India’s leading philosopher, Shankara, who lived in the 7th century has just been completed and is scheduled for release early 2004. Licensing rights are available worldwide. The compositions are based on very rare râgas, sung by Aparna Panshikar with offbeat arrangements by Bhargav Mistry using sarod, tanpura and keyboards. Bhargav is a disciple of India’s sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan.

— Posted by AF on May 04, 2003


DEP composer & performer, Pedram, signed to touring agent

Pedram, whose album « Teheran Nights » is still awaiting a licensing deal, has been signed for the European market by touring agent Alias Production (The Cure, Oasis, Youssou n’Dour, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, St Germain, Coldplay, etc.) www.alias-production.fr

— Posted by AF on March 09, 2003


Completion of two recording projects for Tibet House

DEP and Silk Road Communications have completed two recording projects in collaboration with H. H. the Dalaï Lama and Tibet House:

• 2-CD box set called "Sacred Music of India", featuring diverse musical traditions of the Indian sub-continent, and

• "Tibetan Monastic Chants", a unique ‘live’ recording, in the presence of His Holiness, of 108 monks and nuns from the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions and the pre-Buddhit Bön tradition.

The two projects will be presented at the MIDEM 2004 (25-29 January, 2004).

— Posted by AF on January 09, 2003


DEP Produces Songwriter's Record

DEP has co-funded the production of Pedram's first record to be released in the international market. "Teheran nights" was recorded and mixed in Paris by the legendary sound engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard.

— Posted by AF on July 13, 2002


Breaking the impasse on the collection of mechanical royalties

By collecting mechanicals for the first time in the history of Indian music and repatriating their share to foreign right-owners (Delphine catalogue, i.e. Richard Clayderman) within the rules laid down by the Copyright Board of India, DEP has opened up the way for publishers - both local and foreign - to do business in India. This is truly a landmark.

— Posted by AF on May 14, 2002


DEP collects first mechanicals on behalf foreign publisher

For the first time in India, DEP has been able to recover two years of mechanical rights from a record company, Virgin (India), on behalf a foreign publisher, Delphine Productions. Till date, no mechanical rights had ever been disbursed by any record company in India, local or foreign-owned.

— Posted by AF on December 22, 2001


DEP songwriter wins Best Film Sountrack Award

The OST of the film Dance of the wind, composed by Shubha Mudgal, was awarded the Best Film Music at the Chicago Film Festival. The film, directed by Rajan Khosa and produced by Pandora Film (D) and Elephant Eye (GB), also won the Audience Award (London Film Festival), the Best Asian Film (Rotterdam Film Festival) and received the Audience Award and Best Actress Award at the Nantes Film Festival.

Extremely beautiful both in terms of its visuals ans its classical Indian music... Simple, elegant and resonant Geoff Andrew, Time Out
The most soothing and beautiful of films Chris Darke, The Independent

— Posted by AF on January 16, 2001