Lau vs. Karine Polwart Evergreen E.P
Pre ordering now, released July 2010
Freshly recorded in collaboration by two of the most popular modern folk artists of recent years “Evergreen” is a five track ep featuring new, traditional and contemporary songs including a track originally written by The Blue Nile. Tom is overseeing the design, layout, manufacture and production with the artists, before managing the publicity and promotional campaign. More details, including artwork, final tracklisting and press release coming soon.
You can pre order a signed limited edition version of the CD here which ships well ahead of the retail release. www.lau-music.co.uk
Peggy Seeger
Homecoming Tour
Concert Dates Oct – Nov 2010
Publicity (Forthcoming) Summer 2010 onward
In August 2010 Peggy Seeger returns to England to live. She celebrates her Homecoming with an autumn tour through October and November, which is booking now via her agent Alan Bearman HYPERLINK "http://www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk" www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk
After living 35 years in England, Peggy returned to the USA in 1994 living in Asheville, North Carolina and Boston, Peggy is now heading back to the UK.
During her time in the US, Peggy has been touring extensively as a solo concert artist, singing and giving workshops. She has made 21 solo recordings and has participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists.
A BBC Radio Portrait is already planned and a major publicity campaign will herald her return, managed by Tom to coincide with her autumn 2010 tour.
Peggy is available for interview but dates are limited so please contact tomreveal@mac.com asap with your enquiries, thank you.
Inge Thomson
Shipwrecks & Static (Navigator)
Released May 10th 2010
Every now and then someone makes that record which just can’t easily be labeled or pigeonholed.The public and critics who’ve heard this fine album to date, all seem to agree that Shetland’s Inge Thomson has made one. An incredibly playable, inventive debut album which sits outside her folk roots and embraces many contemporary influences before spitting the lot back out as something Inge Thomson sounding ! Tom is managing the publicity and marketing of the album for the artist and label. Inge plays London on May 17th. Details here www.ingethomson.com
Various Artists
Folk Against Fascism Vol.1
Pre-ordering now, released June 2010
The first in a three part benefit compilation series, compiled by Tom on behalf of Folk Against Fascism, featuring wonderful music from a wide range of established and upcoming artists supporting the FAF cause. For more details about FAF and its work to shut out the BNP from the folk scene and parliament, please visit the website: www.folkagainstfascism.com
Chris Wood
Handmade Life (R.U.F)
September 2009 – Present (Album released March 1st 2010)
Co-ordination of National and Regional UK Tour and Album Publicity, Print and Online Marketing. Management of the artist’s own label requirements including the design and layout (in conjunction with the artist) designers, photographers, distribution (dealing with set up of retail and tour promotion, individual parts, manufacturing, export, coding etc of physical and digital album). A uniquely talented, award winning artist who has rightly seen more and more acclaim heaped upon each of his new albums and touring projects, wherever he chooses to take his contemporary English music next is going to be well worth following. www.ChrisWoodMusic.co.uk
Duotone
Work Harder…
Originally issued March 2010, soon to be re-releasedSometimes the quietest voices are those whom speak the loudest of all. This is certainly true of the immaculate, hushed multi-layered, acoustic songs contained within Duotone’s debut “Work Harder & Some Day You’ll Find Her”
Duotone is the name under which Barney Morse-Brown (cellist for The Imagined Village, Chris Wood’s Handmade Life and Eliza Carthy’s band) writes and performs his own contemporary acoustic songs and music.
A well chosen moniker, Duotone have recorded a short set of thought-provoking music set to a canvas upon which the two main ingredients featured (cello and acoustic guitar) gently meld with lap steel (BJ Cole) , live loops and strings over which Morse- Brown sings his quietly intelligent, crafted lyrics.
Duotone offer up beautiful flourishes of warmth in contemporary sound, but there are also nods toward England’s acoustic, minimalist classical and electronic past masters. ACOUSTIC Magazine described the album as ‘conjuring up the very spirit of the 70’s Canterbury Scene’.
Coming from a musical family of seven children, Barney’s passion for performance was established early on. He was awarded a scholarship to study baroque cello at the Royal Collage of Music, but during a two-year break from the cello after university, Barney focused his attention on songwriting and teaching himself guitar. For those two years he worked extensively with other songwriters around Oxford, became more and more in demand on the session musician scene, and in his spare time, began to focus on his own songwriting and performing. Now it seems that experience will not have been time wasted as “Work Harder…” and Duotone are fast becoming one of the word of mouth success stories of 2010. Duotone will also soon take to the stage again in support of the album, (having opened for Imagined Village in January) more details for which can be found on Duotone’s Myspace.
'hauntingly ethereal' **** SONGLINES
Paul Armfield
Blood Fish & Bone(Artfullsounds / Cargo)
Released May 10th 2010Paul (an Isle of Wight book shop manager / writer / recording artist) has previously toured with Lambchop and Tindersticks and been invited to record for the Jaques Brel tribute album released by Universal Europe. Signed now to Germany’s fast rising independent, boutique label Artfullsounds, Paul has recorded a sparse gem of a new album shot through with genuinely intelligent lyrics about life, love and death with all the rough edges left in the mix! The album has already lead to him wowing new audiences as far a field as Swtizerland and Germany.Tom is handling UK publicity and marketing for the domestic album release in May 2010, working closely with both the artist and label to help build their profile in the UK.
Lau
Arc Light(Lau Scotland Ltd / Navigator)
Live(Reveal / Navigator)
Lightweights & Gentlemen (Reveal)
2007 - present
Triple Best Group Winners (2008, 2009, 2010) at the BBC Folk Awards this inventive post-traditional trio comprising Kris Drever, Aidan O’Rourke and Martin Green have together forged a new music of all their own grown out of the Edinburgh Folk scene.
Lau’s sound is both sparse and rich in equal messure. They arrived in 2006 fully formed and have often since left audiences wondering just how they manage to make such an expansive sound with only their three instruments! Tom first saw Lau in 2006 and quickly offered to sign them to his new Reveal label, later taking on managerial duties for the increasingly popular band in 2008 ahead of their ambitious and acclaimed second studio album “Arc Light”.
Having managed their publicity, retail and touring promotional and marketing campaigns since their debut, Tom continues to oversee all aspects of the group's career working closely in conjunction with the artists and agent. Lau are a successful international touring act, and Tom has arranged everything from radio sessions to international licensing, publishing and merchandise for the band.
Kris Drever
Mark The Hard Earth (Reveal / Navigator)
Live DVD (Reveal / Navigator)
Black Water (Reveal)
2006 – present, Mark The Hard Earth released March 8th 2010
Orkney born Singer / Guitarist who Tom first discovered singing a song in The Kate Rusby band in 2005. He was so impressed with that song he asked Kris if he’d consider becoming a solo recording artist and performer. Thankfully Kris obliged and in 2006 Reveal issued his debut album “Black Water” which was greeted with wild acclaim from all quarters of the music media including a full page **** review in MOJO and an Award for Best Newcomer at the following year's Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Tom has overseen every aspect of Kris Drever’s projects since 2006 - from conception to design and layout ideas, publicity, marketing and even touring in conjunction with the agent. In 2009 Kris recorded his follow up album Mark The Hard Earth again produced by friend John McCusker and featuring a stellar cast of guests, not least giant of Roots music Tim O’Brien with whom Kris does a short tour of Scotland with in May 2010, Tom taking over official management duties from 2010 ahead of the album's release.
Joan As Policewoman
Cover
Debut EP
Real Life
To Survive
2005 – present
Joan Wasser is undoubtedly one of the most talented and acclaimed musicians / songwriters working internationally within music today. She has featured and appeared with Lou Reed, Antony, Rufus Wainwright, Elvis Costello, Scissor Sisters, John Zorn, Elton John and many more … but that does not tell the half of her musical story.
Tom founded Reveal after seeing her perform solo with piano and guitar over two evenings in spring 2005 and since signing Joan, Tom has overseen each of her promotional and publicity campaigns for the releases. In 2009 Joan recorded a self released limited edition Cover album, for which Tom did the UK publicity. Whilst that album is only available at shows and from the Reveal site the Covers album was awarded Album Of The Week in The Independent newspaper and her corresponding tour dates sold out across the UK and beyond.
A Camp
Colonia
2009 – present
Nina (Cardigans), Nathan (Shudder To Think), Niklas (Atomic Swing) signed with Reveal for Europe to release their Colonia album in late 2008. The successful press radio and marketing campaign was co- managed by Tom and the album and singles from the album garnered much praise. Two singles made playlist on UK radio’s BBC Radio 2 and 6 ahead of their sell out spring tour. Colonia is a gem, packed with splendor often genuine darkness and political bite lurk just under the surface or indeed way out front, wrapped in the warmest pop hooks and soaring melodies this side of Abba!
Navigator Records
Featuring: Sandy Wright, Jon Boden, Boo Hewerdine, Heidi Talbot, Bellowhead, John McCusker, Angel Brothers, Mary Hampton, Roddy Woomble, Faustus, Alyth, Spiers & Boden and many more …
2007 – present
Navigator was originally started as a joint venture between Tom and Proper Music. Tom oversaw the recording, release, marketing and promotion of many of the label's strongest catalogue releases, signing internationally respected songwriters and bands including those above. Tom now consults to the label independently and is managing all three of the label’s latest releases (Sandy Wright, Inge Thomson and Kris Drever).
The label is named after a track on Black Water the first folk album Tom issued on Reveal. A compilation, This Is Navigator, and many more albums are available along with corresponding info here www.navigatorrecords.co.uk
Chris Wood
Albion – An Anthology(R.U.F / Navigator)
Spring / Summer 2009
Compiled, licensed and sequenced by Tom in conjunction with Chris Wood, this double CD anthology spans each of Chris’ releases to 2008, including The Imagined Village, Two Duo’s Quartet and his much loved collaborations with Andy Cutting. Released to more fantastic reviews, the album is the perfect primer for anyone wishing to sample the variety and scope of the traditional and contemporary material Chris recorded / released on 11 of the 12 albums from the RUF catalogue. Includes the beautiful unreleased track “The Farmer”.
A genuine labour of love, that incorporated overseeing the re-mastering, design, photography and liner notes through to Navigator label management, publicity and marketing campaigns to promote the release ahead of Chris’ (then) forthcoming new studio album and tour “Handmade Life” which followed in the Autum of the same year.
Chris Wood
Trespasser (R.U.F)
Summer 2007 – Spring 2009
After self releasing his debut solo album Albion in 2004 to a clutch of passionate reviews in the specialist press, the campaign for its 2007 follow up Trespasser was put together in partnership with Chris. The aim was to build upon that good feedback and take things to the next stage, in conjunction with an improved profile and increased spend on marketing his music around the new album and gigs.
An ever increasing groundswell of positive support for Chris’ music meant Chris had started to attract far greater coverage in the media for his music and was now playing to larger audiences. This campaign lasted a over a year and culminated in Chris winning several awards, including Folk Singer Of The Year at the BBC Folk Awards 2009 ceremony, before playing major summer festivals both solo and with The Imagined Village. Reveal Records issued a triple vinyl gatefold package of The Lark Descending & Trespasser during this period (available from www.reveal-records.com), which Tom put together, licensing from Chris’ R.U.F label.
