Native Tongue Music Publishing

Native Tongue Music Publishing
Native Tongue is an independent music publisher, with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Besides acquiring rights to local writers, we also administer the works of overseas writers and catalogues for Australia and New Zealand.

Established in 2003, Native Tongue has built a respected catalogue of local writers. We set out to provide writers with a publishing company dedicated to assisting with the development of their skills as songwriters and composers throughout their careers.

Although we are a small company, we see this is one of our major advantages. It enables us to be far more proactive than our competitors and react quickly to the needs of our clients, whether they be film and television companies, commercial advertisers or the bands of which our writers are members.

We see our role as getting out there and getting things done, working with the band, the management, the record label and the distributor to make things happen.

Our job is to work with you to help you achieve your goals, as a songwriter and in many cases; an artist. We have a broad network of contacts we can utilise in all areas of the business – record companies, distributors, booking agents, promoters, publicists, radio, etc.

We will work with you, your management and record distributor to maximise sales of your record. You probably have most bases covered but there will always be something we can do to help squeeze those extra sales. It may be that we help a band get on a festival bill, provide advice on obtaining touring grants or come up with that song opportunity in a film that breaks through at the box office – who knows – it's an ephemeral business and its not always easy pinning down where things will come from.

If you are looking to place songs with other artists we have a worldwide network of contacts who work songs on that basis. If you want to co-write we will work with you to develop connections with writers you want to work with. If you want to compose film or television scores we are ideally placed to help you realise these ambitions.

We get out there and do the hard yards wherever it is required.

We have over the years developed publishing relationships internationally and through our music supervision business have come to know those companies who work particularly hard gaining sync licenses and pursuing the ancillary income that is available around the world. We have also established a network of international sub-publishers to administer our works around the world. In each case our sub-publishers are established independents with a long term track record of working within their own territory.

Native Tongue also enjoys strong relationships with all the major US, UK, Canadian and European music supervisors and can submit clients works for use in a wide range of projects around the world.

We are also one of the only publishers with offices and staff on the ground in Australia and New Zealand enabling us to fully represent your copyrights in the key markets in our home territory.

Native Tongue is closely associated with Mana Music which is the major music supervisor for feature films, television series, and documentaries in Australia and New Zealand. As a result Native Tongue is in a strong position to place its writer's songs in the wide range of projects.

A similar situation applies in respect to television commercials where once again Mana Music is the major provider of licensing services to the advertising agencies.

CONTACT DETAILS

Australia
+61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@nativetongue.com.au

Matt Tanner - A&R / Creative Manager
matt@nativetongue.com.au

David Nash - Copyright & Royalties Manager
david@nativetongue.com.au

Kate Mills - Licensing & Admin Assistant
kate@nativetongue.com.au

New Zealand
+64 9 378 9667

Po Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

Jan Hellriegel - General Manager
jan@nativetongue.co.nz


United Kingdom

Jaime Gough - International Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au
Emma Russack

Emma Russack

Emma Russack's debut album, Sounds of Our City displays an overarching theme of change and renewal – borne from Emma's first experiences living in Melbourne following a year of travelling through South America. With its combination of low-fidelity folk and blues and hushed, intimate balladry, Sounds of Our City is a unified collection of Emma's most accomplished songwriting to date.

The self-produced album was recorded at Melbourne's Headgap studio over four days, and mixed by Jake Phillips. As well as Emma's characteristic tender yet ardent vocals, Sounds of Our City showcases Melbournians Cameron Potts on drums, Tim Picone on bass and, as usual, Alec Marshall's lubricating guitar work. The album also features a stand-out pedal steel guitar performance courtesy of Chris Altmann, and Kid Sam's Kieran Ryan contributes guest vocals. Jessica and Nick Venables of Jessica Says further supplement the album with strings.

Lyrically, Sounds of Our City explores letting go and severing ties, finding one's place in the world, and wishing you were lying on a beach, cocktail in hand, instead of working at an Italian restaurant during Melbourne's coldest winter in 50 years.

Hailing from Narooma, NSW, Emma first appeared as Lola Flash with her single 'Psycho' released on 2009's compilation Spunk Singles Club. Her follow-up EP Peasants was released in January 2010.

Stripped of Peasants' jazz influence, Sounds of Our City is a bold, honest and elegant work, more intimate in its scope. Emma will be touring the album widely throughout late 2011 and 2012, with east coast performances to be announced shortly.

01Mar2010
Emma Russack By The Shore video
Emma Russack By The Shore video

One morning Emma Russack went down to the beach with a handy-cam. What resulted was Emma's debut, self-directed video for By The Shore from her Spunk released E.P ‘Peasants'.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcNbLUKUJE&feature=player_embedded

 

 

The Daily Telegraph called her a "prodigious talent" and The Age newspaper claimed"this is the start of something big" and compared Emma to the incredible Mazzy Star.

 

28Jan2010
Emma Russack Peasants EP out now through Spunk Records
Emma Russack Peasants EP out now through Spunk Records

After the success of the track ‘Psycho' (recorded under the guise Lola Flash) on the Spunk Singles Club earlier this year, Emma Russack has released her debut EP Peasants through the Spunk Records label.

 

The Peasants E.P. features 7 unreleased songs, including the singles 'By The Shore' and 'Sex On The Beach'. Emma has just completed a New South Wales tour with the Middle East and joined M Craft on his headline shows. More shows to be announced.

 

Reviews are praising this debut with the Sydney Daily Telegraph declaring their "Verdict: Way Too Good."

 

"Intimacy is tricky to achieve on a recording. This young Australian singer-songwriter has already struck a very intimate relationship with thousands of fans via youtube... the same aesthetics of her vocal performance make their way on to her debut EP, 'Peasants', a collection of seven songs which show a dizzying breadth of style and confidence. Opening track From Where You Are Sleeping is a languid torch song, By The Shore has a great jazz lounge feel, Autumn's all too brief pastoral waltz perfectly captures the season while Sex On The Beach is a raucous and often comedic commentary on its subject" Daily Telegraph