Happy Sunday BREAL.TV!
Tonight’s dinner is Spaghetti & Meatballs w./ Green Peppers & Cheese + Growers Apple Cider 🍝🫑🧀🍹
I feel that I’m on the right path into utmostly fortifying the further business end of my music career with The Consequents and Warner Music Group. It has been 8 years of the same cycle since forging Consequents; writing/recording albums of music, mending the artwork & lyrics, and organizing performance appearances. As it’s been mostly myself coordinating, and managing the group; I’ve been as respectful as I can be to all the promoters and venues by taking on biz’ when it truly counts. Within the parameters of reason, I would like to take our business on tours as a career one of these good days. Without major-label authentication, representation, and distribution it is safest to keep in the areas that are within immediate reach (those being Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal).
Without a reputable label’s assistance I know how troublesome it can be to organize appearances under your own authority. Although you may get lucky making a booking at a decent venue on your own weight, I’ve personally gotten into many issues that are dangerous, and under-the-standard of what happens when the right handling is involved in the bookings. *Power cutting out on stage, insulting & disrespectful soundmen, etc*
Scary! ⚡️🕶
Labels should know that although the world is filled with people that claim Music & Performance arts everywhere; most of them aren’t routed to be working for labels or in any interest of the deal. From my experience of being a musician, many of them don’t mind a little shindig here n’ there but they aren’t interested in working professionally for a label. Very few have shown me some interest in working at that, so the odds are that they truly DON’T recieve much from potential signs at all *regardless of what they make you believe*
I have been adamant on keeping my choice of label significant, and have kept all updates and contact via submission consistent for all the years being forged.
To make our records sell to honor our professional agreements with labels, it starts with partnership & representation first. Distribution, and then live appearances.
Who wants to be the musician that just comes to your town to perform “just because” they felt like it? I think it’s safer to make a deal first before you go out of your way to campaign any release, or artistic endeavor.. doesn’t mean that your promo has to be any-what severe, or heavy when it really doesn’t need to be. It’s for security, and provides the authentication needed to allow our audiences to see that we the artists have made only the best choice at securing the protection of our business to reach your eyes n’ ears..
As an artist I think that all major-labels can let their guard down in 2024. Enough of the lawyers, and middleman commute.
Sign them as they are, and watch all the records begin to sell..
Anyway, luv & thanks guys!

– A. Sato