A-Train Partners with Enja Music Publishing

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A-Train is delighted to announce that we have just completed a deal to obtain US sub-publishing rights to the Enja Music Publishing catalog. Music from this fantastic German publisher can be heard in the Royal Bank of Scotland advertisement, often aired during prestigious golf tournaments, among other placements.  To learn more about Enja or to browse their catalog, please visit www.enjamusic.com

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A-Train and the Academy Award Nominees

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A-Train songwriters have their work featured in two Oscar-nominated films this year.  Our music enriches the soundtracks of…

An Education (Nominee for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Best Adapted Screenplay) with music by Ben Castle (Raspe Music)

and

Invictus (Nominee for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role) with music by Charlie Skarbek (Raspe Music).

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David Darling Takes Home The Grammy

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David Darling (Wind Over Earth) has won the 2010 Grammy for Best New Age Album, with his latest, Prayer For Compassion. Congratulations David! Continue reading →

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Grey Gardens Wins 2 Golden Globes

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We are proud to be associated with the 2010 Golden Globe-winning film Grey Gardens.  Rachel Portman (Bucks Music Group) wrote the score for the film.  Grey Gardens took home two Golden Globes this year: BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION, and BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION.

Grey Gardens is based on Albert and David Maysles’ 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and her daughter, “Little Edie,” relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis who were discovered living in squalor on Long Island in the early 1970s.

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A-Train Artists in the World Music Charts Europe

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Our artists are taking up plenty of real estate on the 2009 World Music.  Here’s a sampling, taken from the top 50 of 853 nominated records:

  1. 2. Tres Tres Fort – Staff Benda Bilili (Crammed)
  2. 5. Coba Coba – Novalima (Cumbancha)
  3. 11. Planet Paprika – Shantel (Crammed)
  4. 12. Radio Romanista – KAL (Asphalt Tango)
  5. 15. Karam – Kimi Djabate (Cumbancha)
  6. 18. Rebel Woman – Chiwoniso (Cumbancha)
  7. 27. Vagarosa – Ceu (Six Degrees)
  8. 32. Sonido Amazonica – Chicha Libre (Crammed)
  9. 36. Ghetto Blasters – Mahala Rai Banda (Asphalt Tango)
  10. 47. Fondo – Vieux Farka Toure (Six Degrees)

Congratulations to all these honored artists.

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A-Train 2010 Grammy Nominees!

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A-Train is pleased to announce our nominations for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards!

 

Prayer For Compassion by David Darling
Produced by David Darling & Mickey Houlihan
Wind Over The Earth / 676767234028
Nominated for “Best New Age Album”

 

This is ocean music for the opening heart. David Darling is one of
the great souls and so astonishingly creative it takes your breath.
There is such tenderness here, and majesty, and strength. Reserve
and passion. Mickey Houlihan, that genius of natural sound, and
David have been working on this music for years, and it is simply a
magnificent gift to civilization, one that will outlast us all. – Coleman Bark
www.daviddarling.com

 

True Blue by Northern Cree
Canyon Records / 729337645622
Nominated for “Best Native American Music Album”

 

Northern Cree has built a reputation for being one of the most
powerful drum groups on the circuit today. They sing with a force
and passion that keeps the arena jam-packed when they’re singing
an intertribal song… really characterizes the strong leads and
harmonies that has made Northern Cree a pow wow staple for
several decades. –The Cherokee One Feather

www.canyonrecords.com

 

Riders Of The Healing Road by Johnny Whitehorse
Silver Wave Records / 021585095120
Nominated for “Best Native American Music Album”

 

Fresh off a Grammy win for his album Totemic Flute Chants, Johnny
Whitehorse (a side project of Robert Mirabal) is back with another
set of sublime flute pieces. Mixing Native American influences with
some Asian flute elements, Whitehorse creates an album that is at
once haunting and meditative. – Zango Music
www.silverwave.com

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Canyon Records wins Indian Summer Awards, Nominated for Canadian Aboriginal Awards

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For Canyon Records, the road to the 2009 Grammys is paved with honors:

 

Among the finalists for the Canadian Aboriginal Awards are:

•  True Blue by Northern Cree (Best Pow-Wow Album Contemporary)
•  True Blue by Northern Cree (Best Group or Duo)
•  Talisman by R. Carlos Nakai (Best Traditional Flute Album)
•  Many Tribes One Nation by Warscout (Best Pow-Wow Album Contemporary)
•  Cheevers Toppah & Kevin Yazzie (Best International Album)
•  Portraits by Gabriel Ayala (Best International Album)
• Love, Lies and Lullabies by Sullivan & Day (Best International Album)

 

This year marks the first time that Canyon Records has swept the Best International Album category.

We wish Canyon the best of luck as The Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards are presented November 27th, 2009 at the Hamilton Place Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario in conjunction with the 16th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival.

For more information visit www.canab.com

Canyon also received two Indian Summer awards this year:

Red Rock by Northern Cree won the award for Best Traditional Drum Album and Faith by Kevin Yazzie won Best Traditional Vocal Album.

This year Canyon Records earned the distinction of being the first record company to have released all five finalists in the Best Traditional Album category. Canyon also released two of the finalists in the Best Traditional Vocal Album category. Canyon’s 2009 Indian Summer Music Awards finalists include:

The Elk Dreamers by Elk Soldier (Best Traditional Drum Album)

Spo’Mo’Kin’Nan by Black Lodge (Best Traditional Drum Album)

Tha Quiet Storm by Tha Tribe (Best Traditional Drum Album)

For the Love by Thunder Hill (Best Traditional Drum Album)

Love, Lies and Lullabies by Sullivan & Day (Best Traditional Vocal Album)

 

Since 2004, Canyon Records has received eleven Indian Summer Music Awards and 37 nominations. The awards were presented Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at the Indian Summer Festival.

For more information visit www.indiansummer.org.

Congratulations, Canyon.

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Crammed Discs wins Two Womex Awards

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At this year’s edition of WOMEX Crammed Discs walked away with 2 of the 3 prizes awarded during the closing ceremony, on Nov. 1st in Copenhague.

The Artist Award 2009 has been granted to awesome Congolese band STAFF BENDA BILILI, who are currently starting their first European tour, which promises to be nothing short of triumphal considering the passion generated by the band’s mesmerizing music and by their extraordinary story.

Staff Benda Bilili were discovered and recorded in Kinshasa by CRAMMED DISCS, whose excellence and boundary-breaking role will be once again distinguished at WOMEX: after receiving the Womex Award in 2004, Crammed Discs will be receiving the Top Label Award 2009, jointly granted by WOMEX and World Music Charts Europe (the organism which compiles airplay charts for the European Broadcasting Union, on the basis of returns from over 50 radio broadcasters from 25 countries). Crammed Discs comes first in the year-round 2009 chart, at the top of a list which includes no less than 540 labels!

 

 

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