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FALL 2008
Ralph
Kevin Quain
Kimberley Rew, "Ridgeway"
Alternative TV
NOM
Kimberley Rew, "Bible of Bop"
White Room compilation
Diodes, "Action Reaction"
Diodes, "Time Damage" Vinyl Only
Bongo Beat Christmas
AUGUST 2008
Bedsit Poets
Land of Giants
Ari Shine Acoustic EP (itunes only)
JULY 2008
Plastic Heroes
Johnny Dowd
Franco Proietti Morph-tet
JUNE 2008
Fraze Gang
C.R. Avery (France)
OCT 2007
Ian Ferrier - Canada
Kevin Kane, "How To Build A Lighthouse"- Canada
C.R. Avery- Canada
SEPT 2007 - USA
Ian Ferrier
Kevin Kane, "How To Build A Lighthouse"
AUG 2007
Canada:
Dave Rave & Mark mcCarron
Ari Shine
JULY 2007
Ari Shine, "A Force Of One"
Dave Rave & Mark McCarron, "In The Blue Of My Dreams"
APRIL 2007
Kevin House, "World of Beauty"
Lola Dutronic, "The Love Parade"
For 2008, Bongo Beat celebrates a lucky 13 years of operation as a label dedicated to great music, new sounds and new visions - curated under the ever eclectic eye of label founder Ralph Alfonso, who originally started Bongo Beat to showcase his jazz/garage rock combo.
An industry veteran (Warner, EMI, Attic, Nettwerk) as well as a performer / photographer / writer / designer, Ralph encourages his artists to set higher standards - reflected in both the music and distinctive packaging. Kevin Komoda (DJ / performer / engineer / producer / etc) is Bongo Beat Montreal, working national promo, retail, and tour press (Ralph is originally from Montreal also). A team of dedicated indie promo and retail folks are also there to help us per project.
As the music industry continues to implode, we continue to release quality music. If you like what we do, please spread the word. There is a lot of hype out there but ultimately it is all about trust and friendships. Maybe we're old fashioned and idealistic about these things, but we think what we release will still hold its own years from now when it's discovered somewhere and people come looking for us at the old folks home. But we can't do it alone.
Internationally, Bongo Beat is distributed in CANADA by Outside Music, USA by Burnside, UK by Pinnacle, SPAIN by Dock, and we did have Australia via Reverberation Distribution, but they have been bought by Fuse and left many labels in the lurch (us included). In Germany, we are distributed by New Music. More coming soon.
All Bongo Beat cds are available on AMAZON sites worldwide. It's such a grey area with all these third party importer/exporters, sometimes we have no real control over how or why our cds end up where they do, but right now the Export Department at Burnside Distribution has created partnerships with various foreign distributors (including Australia!) so you will see some of our titles start to sprout up like happy flowers in cool shops in countries we've always dreamed of visiting.
And yeah, we do individual licensing deals, for example, CR Avery's cd has been released in France by Platinum Records and Kevin Kane's cd is released on Sandfish Records Japan.
If you are a record shop or similar retail and would like to purchase cds directly from us, we can do this and we can negotiate a great deal, but we cannot do consignment unless Ralph or Kevin live in your town.
Music Supervisors scouring MySpace pages for cheap sync fodder - HEY, we're not proud, send some of that bottom feeder money our way also - we have lots of one-stop shop tracks (including Diodes and instrumental mixes and stuff not listed here)
WE ARE LOOKING FOR DIRECT DISTRIBUTION OPPORTUNITIES FOR:
Japan
France (we will be on lesindependants.com shortly)
Italy
Asia
If you are looking for Ralph Alfonso's page, please click on his Friends link.
