Is this the DIY Xmas number 1!
Since citizensound set up, we have been providing more and more help to artists: From old school A&R services to fanbase management, from songwriting help to brand sponsorship and revenue generation ideas. Which is why we set up our Artist Development division. Then we met MIA ROSE, a talented singer/songwriter and a youtube phenomenon. Besides...
Dear Musician & Brand – Is your sound irresistible?
Robert Wolf, London musician and drumming teacher to my son, is finishing up his album right now. Getting noticed is a big challenge for every musician, but there was something he said to me today that really resonated. He said is is going to make his music sound irresistible How many musicians aim for that?...
The Sound of The Summer
This month we’ve got 18 tracks of fantastic summer tunes for you to listen to with our latest citizensound “It All Ads Up” podcast. This is the first time we’ve used the rather excellent SoundCloud service to provide you with our regular podcast of our favourite tunes for all of you in advertising and brand...
Fripperies on Friday – The Boombox
My first boombox was called a Tensai Rhytm Machine. It looked like a standard boombox but it also allowed you to split the stereo into two recordable mono tracks and included five or six pre-set rhythms, which if you held two of the buttons down together allowed to ‘mix’ the rhythms. Prior to the invention...
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The return of the music salon and the new shoots of communalCulture
Music these days is seen as highly personal, focused on the individual: my iPod, my selection, my taste, my choice in my time. Yet, at it’s best, music is a communal experience – the live show, sharing favourite songs, artist and fan getting closer together. In my view, there is a clear return to the...
Song for the week-end: Carry Go Bring Home
On my way back from a meeting in town, I dropped into the wonderful Supertone Records on Acre Lane for a bit of ‘business research’. Ended up swapping cash for some righteous tunes from Jah Shaka, Scientist plus a little bit of Lone Ranger. But I also came away with this. An old classic that...
The soundtrack to your brand?
When we launched soundsearch, our bespoke music search and licensing facility, just over 12 months ago we wanted to deliver something different to the marketplace. We don’t have a fancy computerised system, but what we do have is over 40 years of music business experience and a huge collection and knowledge of music that can...
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Sensory Marketing: A musician’s approach
Be it Dubai or Mumbai, London or Lisbon, citizensound is excited to find that more and more brands are investing in the power of the senses as part of the consumer experience. The old one dimensional approach to sensory marketing is moving out of the mainstream into the background, being replaced by strategies that consider...
Space is the Place: Journey to the Spatial AKA
citizensound went to see Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA at the Barbican this week. Three reasons to go: First a chance to listen to Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane tunes Second, these pieces of music played by some of the best jazz musicians in the UK Third to see Jerry Dammers do what he does best…be...
Is this the future for music?
Those in the know have been waiting for new music service Spotify, which went live to a small group of invitees in early December, to finally became freely available to everyone. And yesterday the shout went out to UK web users “come and get it”. Spotify is an ad-supported streaming music service that lets you...
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Something for the weekend…
We love sharing music, and as a special early Christmas gift we thought we’d give everyone access to our latest “It All Ad’s Up” podcast, which we put together on a regular basis for our friends who are responsible for music syncs in advertising agencies across the world. The aim of the podcast is to...
Summer In The Cities
And then there were four! citizensound has been joined by a new recruit Mariana Duarte Silva, which not only means we can add Portuguese to the our portfolio of four spoken languages (English, French, Spanish and Geordie!), but we also have an experienced club promoter in our midst! Mariana, or the Madame to her friends,...