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1 NORDIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES DELEGATES

2 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Leifur Björnsson Ólafur Páll Rasmus A&R / MARKETING Torfason Damsholt ALDA MUSIC / CEO ARTIST MANAGER [email protected] ALDA MUSIC / ICELAND ATC MANAGEMENT / +354 773 7129 [email protected] [email protected] +354 695 6952 +45 2829 2639

Alda Music is a catalogue owner of the major- Alda Music is a catalogue owner of the major- ity of Icelandic music released since the 40’s ity of Icelandic music released since the 40’s After finishing his BA in Music Management at until now. Amongst shareholders and patrons until now. Amongst shareholders and patrons the Rhythmic Music Conservatorium in 2016, of the company are Ólafur Arnalds musician of the company are Ólafur Arnalds musician 27 year old Rasmus Damsholt, started his and Sölvi Blöndal former member of . and Sölvi Blöndal former member of Quar- own management company, adding emerg- Alda also releases new Icelandic music along ashi. ing Danish artists such as Lowly, Chinah and with cherry picked releases from the back cata- Alda also releases new Icelandic music along Sekuoia to his roster. In 2017 he then joined logue. with cherry picked releases from the back London based artist management compa- Amongst the acts on our current roaster are; catalogue. ny ATC Management and is now running the GDRN, Hildur, Úlfur Úlfur, Birgir, Jónas Sigurds- Amongst the acts on our current roaster are; Scandinavian office out of Copenhagen. son, Singapore Sling. GDRN, Hildur, Úlfur Úlfur, Birgir, Jónas Sig- Alda Music also operates it’s own aggregation urdsson, Singapore Sling. www.atcmanagement.com service, and offers digital Alda Music also operates it’s own aggrega- distribution services to individuals and third tion digital distribution service, and offers parties. digital distribution services to individuals and third parties. aldamusic.is aldamusic.is

3 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Aija Lehtonen A song ”Alku” from Tuuletar’s , “”Tules BAFE’S FACTORY’S ARTISTS: SALES & PROMOTION Maas Vedes Taivaal””, winner of the Etno-Em- Tuuletar – Vocal Folk Hop BAFE’S FACTORY, ma (the Finnish equivalent to the Grammy Solju - Vivacious, colourful, earthy, ethereal [email protected] Award) has been placed in Game of Thrones and genuine music from the far north of Eu- +358 40 593 9015 season 7 DVD and Blu-Ray commercial and rope: Sapmi in the most watched Australian TV drama J-P Piirainen - Nordic Guitar Music Wentworth’s grand season finale. We contin- Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble - Modern , ue our co-operation with Tuuletar and Liquid Funky Beats and edgy Afrobeat in an inno- Bafe’s Factory is an independent 5th Productions -studio in USA in order to pro- vating manner and a publisher in Helsinki, Finland. It presents duce new music targeting for sync produc- Vilma Timonen Quartet (VTQ) - Urban Kan- Finnish artists who create their own unique mu- tion. tele Music sic targeting into international markets. Bafe’s Southpaw Steel ‘n’ Twang (SST) band was first Subsonic Trio - Pure from Fin- Factory’s key focus area is music synchroniza- Finnish band invited to play at the Interna- land, and Brazilan at the highest tion. Bafe´s Factory is an ”one stop clearance” tional Steel Guitar Convention in St. Louis. We level company. We represent all the rights needed also recorded the latest album from SST. Southpaw Steel’n’Twang (SST) - Sound of son- for sync and have separate audio tracks for re- ic spices - , Jazz, Proge, Ameri- processing.We are also looking for distributors can music with lap steel guitar and sub-publishers. Teho Majamäki – Progressive World Trance - Bafe’s Factory’s artists have received excel- produced with classical and lent reviews in the (for example ethnic percussion instruments World Music Central, RootsWorld, Jazz Weekly, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Premier Guitar, The Recorded A Cappella Review Board ) and a lot www.bafesfactory.fi of radioplays (for example KXEP, KZYX, KUNM, WFMU, KAOS, WTUL, WRIR, CFUV, KALX, KALW, WMBR, WNMC, WYCE).

4 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Åsa Enström Ruben Nesse Peo Nylén GENERAL COUNSEL CEO/OWNER CREATIVE DIRECTOR BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT BRILLIANCE / COSMOS MUSIC PUBLISHIN / (SCANDINAVIA) AB / SWEDEN [email protected] SWEDEN [email protected] +47 9808 0349 [email protected] +46 7031 54560 +46 7058 69088

Music lawyer - responsible for the negotiation Brilliance is a music company founded in Nor- Cosmos Music is a leading independent mu- and review of all contracts and rights clearanc- way in 2010 with offices in Bergen and Lon- sic company, with label office, publishing of- es for the Nordic office within the BMG group. don. Our goal is to discover and present new fice and studio complex with seven writing Handles legal disputes and coordinates local brilliant music through talent management rooms in central Stockholm. The publishing acquisitions and investments. Board member and label services. We also have a singles club side represents over half a million songs from of Stim and Swedish MPA. Interested in strate- that releases new singles from up and coming companies such as Concord/, Bud- gic questions within PROs and technical and acts and a PR division offering pan-Scandina- demusic, Mute Song, Bucks and many more, digital development, such as AI and blockchain vian PR services. Currently presenting acts like as well as a quickly growing local catalogue, etc. Tuvaband, Kommode, Intertwine, Novo Amor, including big hits in various countries. Cosmos Misty Coast Music’s company history dates back to 1966, BMG is a worldwide music company with both when in-house imprint Amigo was founded in publishing and record label. www.brilliance.no Stockholm and we are proud to have been the record label of choice for hundreds of artists www.bmg.com ever since. Today, Cosmos Music is a digitally focused and 100% independent Swedish mu- sic company with an international outlook. We invest heavily into A&R and our global network of close distribution partners, marketing teams, publicists and radio pluggers provides us with a worldwide reach.

www.cosmos-music.com

5 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Robin Jenssen other cities such as Seoul, Los Angeles, Tokyo VICE PRESIDENT & and Aarhus. GENERAL MANAGER In 2017 Jenssen and his business partner Pelle EKKO MUSIC RIGHTS EUROPE / Lidell (former European A&R Executive for SWEDEN Universal Music Publishing Ltd UK) launched [email protected] the new music publishing company EKKO +46 7072 26770 Music Rights, backed by powerful Korean music company S.M. Entertainment, and its In 2005 Jenssen co-founded the renowned writ- recently launched sister company, CTGA Co. ing and production team Dsign Music. Since Ltd. EKKO is the result of a long-standing idea the start they have been involved in more than from Korean leading music business executive 200 releases worldwide resulting in 33 US Bill- and billionaire Lee Soo-man, founder and board No 1’s, over 25 million records sold, an former Chairman of S.M. Entertainment. array of international No 1’s and Top 10’s. Pio- Jenssen has so far had a long and success- neers of K-POP and J-POP , cutting ful career as manager and music business edge writing and production, winner of numer- entrepreneur on the international scene. ous awards across the globe and so forth - the He is a pioneer in the K-Pop world where his list goes on and on! clients Dsign Music to date, are responsible The smash hit and No.1 single for Ricky Martin for multi-million sales and some of the most “Vente Pa’Ca” has 1,4 billion views on YouTube iconic and commercially successful hits in and more than 277 million streams on Spotify, K-Pop’s history. Jenssen is a very experienced earning Dsign Music a SESAC Latin Award in entrepreneur and – known 2017 and 2 nominations for the Latin Grammy internationally for his excellent strategic and Awards in 2017 (Song of The Year, Album of entrepreneurial skills. Jenssen is also involved The Year). in other ventures such as musicals, music tech Trondheim Song:Expo was founded by Jens- and mobile applications. sen in 2011 and is known for being “Europe’s biggest songwriting camp” with 15 studios and 100 /producers attending every www.ekkomusicrights.com year. This writing camp is later also arranged in

6 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Eero Tolppanen On the producer/artist front, we represent, Jesper Thorsson HEAD OF A&R among others: CEO ELEMENTS MUSIC / FINLAND ALEX MATSSON, a DJ/producer whose debut EXPORT MUSIC SWEDEN AB / EERO.TOLPPANEN@ single “UFO” certified double platinum and is SWEDEN ELEMENTSMUSIC.FI soon to release his debut EP via Music. [email protected] +358 40 837 6664 ALISKY, a talented producer with a unique +46 72 586 50 60 electronic sound. Signed to Warner and cur- rently preparing his debut EP. I’m the Head of A&R and co-owner of Elements LEO JUPITER. His co-write and production on Export Music Sweden works at an industry level Music, the leading independent Finnish mu- Reino Nordin’s “Antaudun” was the biggest to help export Swedish music to the world. We sic publishing company. We represent sever- Finnish hit of 2017 and certified 3 x platinum, support songwriters, musicians, recording art- al internationally focused writers, producers winning the Emma award (Finnish Grammy) ists and companies within the to & artists including, for example, the highly for the most streamed song of the year. go global. sought after AXEL EHNSTRÖM. Axel We are looking for collaborations and oppor- Jesper Thorsson is the CEO of Export Music co-wrote the platinum selling hit “Bad Ideas” tunities for our artists, writers & producers. Sweden AB since the relaunch five years ago. for Alle Farben which reached German Export Music Sweden is an organization found- chart #1 for 4 weeks. He also recently had 3 ed by the music industry associations IFPI (re- songs on Lost Frequencies’ debut album, in- www.elementsmusic.fi cord companies), STIM ( and pub- cluding the single “All or Nothing” and the song lishers) and SAMI (artists and musicians). “James has changed” on Phoebe Ryan’s latest Prior to this Jesper started the department ADA EP. Nordic at Warner Music and later becomame the Director of International Labels. Before that he was responsible for the Nordic market at the venerable label Roadrunner Records at Bonnier Amigo Music Group and was also a part of the European A&R team at Roadrunner. Jesper has in total 20 years of experience of services in the music industry within sales, mar- keting, export, A&R and merchandise.

www.exportmusicsweden.org 7 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Hildur Maral now releasing their solo ventures through the Heidi Luukkonen LABEL MANAGER label where they are nurtured and respected COORDINATOR, CREATIVE FIGUREIGHT RECORDS / DENMARK as musicians in a holistic, artist-friendly ap- INDUSTRIES & COMMUNICATIONS (/ICELAND/USA) proach. figureight values sincerity, curiosity CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND [email protected] and artistic vision. The label is connected to [email protected] +45 3168 6830 Figure 8 studio (Brooklyn, NYC) where most +1 424 298 0493 of the label releases pass through in some way and the artists frequently record and Hildur Maral has worked in the music industry perform live together. The roster may be di- Based in Los Angeles. In charge of trade and for 13+ years. Starting her career in her teens verse, set apart by musical and geographical cultural export in the creative industries for as a music radio show host for Iceland’s Nation- distances, but is bound together in creative Finnish artists and companies. Main areas of al Broadcasting Service and music critic, she and expressive spirit. focus are music, film industry & gaming indus- has since tried her hand at most aspects of the figureight releases out now: tries and country branding. My job is to make industry in various positions such as artist and Finland the next cool spot to visit and invest PR management. In the last couple of years Indridi (IS) - Makril in! Responsible for coordinating trade missions she has specialized in festival management - JFDR (IS) - Brazil and linking the US and Finnish creative com- working some of the world’s biggest festivals Aaron Roche (US) - HaHa HuHu panies and people. Media contact & social such as Coachella (USA), Roskilde Festival (DK) Gyda Valtysdottir (IS) - Epicycle media guru for the Consulate. - and label management for renown label Bed- Úlfur (IS) - Arborescence The mission of the Finnish Consulate in LA is to room Community (IS) and the newly founded find business opportunities for Finnish compa- figureight (IS/USA); a label & artist collective nies and assist them in entering the US market. founded by Shahzad Ismaily, a multi-instru- www.figureightrecords.com My background is in media culture & commu- mental and multi-disciplinary performer. nications, but my lifelong passion has always The label is a home for interior, shy, and hid- been music. When I’m not working, you can den works, celebrating musicians rare and find me at various live music venues in Los unique. Many of figureight’s artists have been Angeles spotting new talent. I also manage a sidemen to better known performers, and are local punk band called Johnny Madcap & The Distractions.

www.formin.fi

8 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Lars Jakob Saara Konttinen Sigtryggur Rudjord ADMINISTRATION AND Baldursson CEO LICENSING MANAGER MANAGING DIRECTOR FYRLYD AS / NORWAY HMC PUBLISHING / WARNER MUSIC ICELAND MUSIC / ICELAND [email protected] FINLAND OY / FINLAND [email protected] +47 958 04 846 SAARA.KONTTINEN@ +354 697 6425 WARNERMUSIC.COM +358 40 562 2441 Fyrlyd Records is an label, music compa- Iceland Music is the music export office in ice- ny and publishing house based on the South- HMC Publishing is the publishing arm of War- land, and takes care of all sorts of networking west coast of Norway. We are a / ner Music Finland (worldwide admin by War- initiatives and information on the icelandic musician driven label, and create and release ner/Chappell). HMC is one of the most current musical community, but also is responsible for our own music with a distinct, unique Nordic publishers in Finland at the moment, with educational programs and grants and runs sound. Our roster primarily includes folk-in- over 30 writers, such as Joonas Angeria, Henri two websites, one in icelandic, www.uton.is spired singer-songwriter Ingvild Koksvik and “MGI” Lanz, Patric Sarin and Ilkka Wirtanen. and one in english, www.icelandmusic.is neoclassical pianist-composer Lars Jakob HMC’s writers are currently working with acts Rudjord. like Julie Bergan (Warner Music Norway), Isac www.icelandmusic.is Elliot (), Phoebe Ryan (Columbia www.fyrlydrecords.com Records), SAARA (Universal Music), Benji & Fede (Warner Music Italy), Irama (Warner Music Ita- ly) and Alma (Warner Music Finland). Although HMC Publishing is a part of Warner Music Fin- land, we are actively working with all other la- bels and publishers.

www.warnermusic.fi

9 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Soffía Kristín Activist and Film Producer currently based in 2014 she founded talent management com- Jónsdóttir Iceland. Surrounded by music from birth, Sof- pany Iceland Sync alongside Camilla Stones OWNER - GENERAL MANAGER fia was raised in a musical family where ev- with top shelf musical talents. ICELAND SYNC MANAGEMENT EHF / eryone played or had an active involvement ICELAND in the local music scene; her love of music and Today our roster includes Ragga Gröndal, [email protected] entertainment took hold in her early teens Auður, AFK, Svala and Blissful alongside a +354 867 8723 AND +19179729446 and continued to grow into a true passion ac- larger roster of artists we represent for sync companied by an ambition to build her repu- and publishing opportunities. More info on Iceland Sync is an Iceland and Los Angeles tation within the Entertainment Industry. www.icelandsync.com. based talent management, promotion and publishing company that: a) helps devel- In 2005, her studies in Business Administra- www.icelandsync.com op and launch Icelandic artists internationally tion at the Commercial College of Iceland b) manage artists, songwriters, composers and led to a potent fusion of business and artistic bands as well as their catalogs c) spreads love abilities well suited for a career in today’s mu- and joy all around the world through music. sic and motion picture industries. Her indefat- igable work ethic, 10 years later, has served Founded by: Soffía Kristín Jónsdóttir to earn her a name as an internationally re- Steinunn Þóra Camilla Sigurðardóttir spected entrepreneur and business woman.

Mission: Our mission is to synchronize Icelandic Soffia’s yen for challenge led her to the U.S. in arts and music world-wide by being the bridge 2012, where she added a Bachelor´s degree between artists and the industry on a glob- in Music Business from Full Sail University. In al market.Vision: Our vision is to be the go-to company for Icelandic artists ready to advance their career internationally. About Soffia: Soffia Kristin Jonsdottir is an Art- ist Manager, Concert Producer, Music Rights

10 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Glenn Larsen Saqib Hassan Colm O Herlihy HEAD OF EVERYTHING A&R / PARTNER LABEL MANAGER INDIANER MANAGEMENT / NORWAY KONTRA AGENCY / DENMARK MENGI/BEDROOM COMMUNITY / [email protected] [email protected] ICELAND [email protected] +354 832 8607

Indianer is one of Norways most finest artist 2017 : Launched Kontra Agency Bedroom Community is an Icelandic record managements. Indianer Management is an •A&R for artist “Phlake” - Kontra Agency / label/collective formed in 2006 by Valgeir Sig- international management company based in Sony Denmark urðsson, with Nico Muhly and Ben Frost, later , Norway, with a huge network across the •A&R for artist “Benal” - Kontra Agency / adding Sam Amidon, Daníel Bjarnason, Puzzle globe. Our management roster today consists Sony Denmark Muteson, Paul Corley, Nadia Sirota and James of Highasakite, Bernhoft, Siv Jakobsen, Aman- •A&R plus mix/mastering for artist “Marvelous McVinnie to the intimate roster. 2015 saw two da Tenfjord, Pom Poko, Team Me, Thea & The Mosell” new additions to the family being: Emily Hall & Wild and Marie Munroe. Roster : Benal | Phlake | Yulez | Dada | Jodie Landau and wild Up. Marvelous Like-minded, yet diverse individuals from dif- Mosell | Brave | Lærke Emilie | Reem | ferent corners of the globe all creatively orbit www.indianer.nu 2015-2016 : teacher at the Rhythmic around an inconspicuous building and its in- Conservatory Copenhagen habitants 2012 - 2016 : A&R Sony Music Denmark on the outskirts of Reykjavík Iceland - Green- 1996 -2011 : house Studios - where the music is mostly creat- •FOH Medina / Malk de Koijn ed. •composer, producer, recording & mix engi- neer www.bedroomcommunity.net Outlandish, Burhan G and many more •signed to BMG UK publishing”

11 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Sindri Astmarsson Fires (over 30 million streams) and quickly Katariina Sorsa CEO / ARTIST MANAGER became a dominant force in the Icelandic EXPORT MANAGER MID ATLANTIC ENTERTAINMENT / market. Working with act’s like Agent Fresco, MUSIC FINLAND / FINLAND ICELAND Axel Flovent, Glowie, Ulfur Ulfur and many [email protected] [email protected] more he now runs a office of 5 people and EU +358 40 561 1150 +354 866 0309 a roster of 18 act’s. With little infrastructure US +1 (747) 220-5976 the Icelandic market is challenging and MAE works in management, bookings, sync licens- Sindri Astmarsson is a manager from Iceland ing, distribution and promotion. Last year Katariina works as Export Manager at Music and fonder of Mid Atlantic Entertainment the Sindri worked with Glowie who signed with Finland specializing in export projects in the largest mgmt company in Iceland. Sindri who Columbia in the UK and has now just left that field of songwriting and the publishing industry has a background as a DJ, Radio host and project in the hands of Maverick mgmt. Sindri as well as sync and film composing. She pro- event planner turned to management in 2013 is now working with the amazingly talented duces songwriting camps Song Castle, A-Pop when he started to manage then unknown Bríet that is turning heads on both sides of Castle and Song Hotel, and works with Finnish band called Kaleo. Kaleo soon became the the Atlantic and has massive major label in- music industry events such as Music & Media most popular band in the domestic market terest. Finland. Katariina is also project manager on and started to look at international opportu- the export offices’ behalf for the Nordic Music nities. They later signed in the US and signed Trade Mission to the US. with another mgmt company. When Sindri re- www.midatlantic.is turned to Iceland he started Mid Atlantic and Music Finland promotes the awareness and signed a couple of new artists. He funded a success of Finnish music at home and abroad. couple of EP’s including Axel Flovent’s Forest It creates and manages a wide variety of ser- vices for the Finnish music industry; marketing programs, events, networking opportunities, training, consultancy, support, research, infor- mation and funding programs.

www.musicfinland.fi

12 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Riku Salomaa Nina Finnerud Carolina HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL HEAD OF UK OFFICE Echeverri MUSIC FINLAND / FINLAND MUSIC NORWAY / NORWAY SENIOR ADVISOR [email protected] [email protected] MXD - MUSIC EXPORT DENMARK / +358 40 705 2606 +44 78357 53030 DENMARK [email protected] +45 4271 1164

Music Finland promotes the awareness and suc- Music Norway is the official export office for Supported by the Ministry of Culture in Den- cess of Finnish music at home and abroad. It Norwegian Music. Addressing the needs of mark, MXD supports the export of Danish rock creates and manages a wide variety of services the music industry, artists, ensembles and or- and both financially and through for the Finnish music industry; marketing pro- ganisations, Music Norway offers funding pro- expertise. It also produces and project manag- grams, events, networking opportunities, train- grams, competence building, facilitation of es export projects as well as collecting, evalu- ing, consultancy, support, research, informa- networking arenas and consultations. Music ating and sharing market intelligence. tion and funding programs. After specialising Norway develops programs that fit a digital in the markets of the UK and German-speaking and global music industry, based on data re- www.mxd.dk Europe, Riku Salomaa now leads Music Fin- trieval, analysis and music export statistics. land’s export team. www.musicnorway.no www.musicfinland.fi

13 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Steffen Strojeck Stefan Cristopher Andres Dahl FOUNDER - PUBLISHER/MANAGER Petersen FOUNDER & MANAGER OFFICIAL MUSIC / DENMARK MANAGER PAPERCLIP AS / NORWAY [email protected] OUT OF OFFICE / DENMARK [email protected] +45 6021 0303 [email protected] +47 9203 8684 +45 4019 8135

Official Music is a Copenhagen bassed music Copenhagen based fulltime manager, which After graduating with a master degree in BA collective, which started in 2017. In music terms has been managing the Danish duo Phlake for from NHH in 2016, I decided to pursue my a management, publishing and label. the last four years. Five Danish Grammys, two dream of being a manager on a full-time The roster includes only new and artists, and well over 100 million streams later, basis. Therefore, I started Paperclip together writers and producers, without any history in he and the band are now aiming to conquer with the highly acclaimed firm MADE, who the music business. Europe with their Pop/R&B hybrid. manage acts like Aurora and Sigrid. I func- Recently he signed with the composer and tion as managing director and music manag- Immediately they established a name for them singer, School of X – and together are they er in Paperclip. We’re focused solely on elec- themself in the Danish music business. working on developing the acts woozy elec- tronic music, and work with both Norwegian With a great deal of attention especially in tronic pop universe. and international talent. Our roster consists Denmark, UK and US, for some of their self-re- Stefan has an educational background from of the following artists: Atella, Cavego, Didrik leased singles that went viral, and several writ- the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenha- Thulin, Gundelach, LUXXURY, Moullinex, Satin ten and produced tracks that made it into the gen, where he attended the elite education, Jackets and Xinobi. Since the start our artists top 10. Music Management. He has within the last 5 have released with labels such as Anjuna, As- years been working for Warner Music Den- tralwerks, Asylum, Atlantic, Capitol, Eskimo, www.officialmusic.dk mark as a product manager, and afterwards K7!, , Sony, Spinnin’, Ultra, co-founded the Danish talent department and Terrible. Paperclip is in 2018 hosting sev- within Scandinavia’s biggest social influencer eral writing camps e.g. BergenElectronic with network, Splay Networks. Publishing. Andres was named the newcomer of the year by Music Norway in 2017, and he has been featured in magazines like DJ Mag.

14 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES www.paperclip.no Camilla Taasti Haraldur Levi Mona Aghai ARTIST MANAGER Gunnarsson CO-FOUNDER & GM QUARTERBACK ENTERTAINMENT / LABEL MANAGER RMV PUBLISHING / SWEDEN DENMARK RECORD RECORDS / ICELAND [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +46 7048 16081 +45 2615 3355 +354 865 2360

I am an artist manager at Quarterback Enter- Haraldur Levi (Halli) is the founder of the Ice- RMV Publishing was founded september 2016 tainment (L.O.C., Snavs, KING, Baby In Vain). landic record label Record Records and man- by Mona Aghai, Ludvig Andersson and Benny I do day-to-day/assistant management on ager of Icelandic artist Júníus Meyvant. Andersson. The company is focusing on work- Snavs (electronic act) and Baby In Vain (rock Record Records is an Icelandic independent ing and developing new writers and produc- band) and I manage KING (singer/songwriter, record label based in Reykjavík. Its initial ers in their studios at Skeppsholmen in Stock- pop artist). kickoff as a pocket-sized distribution compa- holm. Besides Ludvig himself, RMV Publishing ny for small up and coming artists based in also work with Natali Noor (producer, writer, www.qbackent.com the great Reykjavík area was in late 2007. artist) and Joel Gunnarsson aka Ourchives It’s roster includes artists such as Of Mon- (writer and artist). sters and Men, Mammút, Júníus Meyvant and many more. www.rmvpub.com www.recordrecords.com

15 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Miika Särmäkari Eva Karman FOUNDER Reinhold RUTILUS MUSIC / FINLAND CEO [email protected] SMILODON/KARMAN I.C. / SWEDEN +358 40 0814 144 [email protected] +46 7074 68311

Rutilus is a boutique music publishing & pro- Smilodon offers Artist Law & Rights Manage- ducer management company from Helsinki, ment for artists, songwriters, producers and Finland. Our songwriters and beat makers rep- independent companies. Founded in 2004 by resent forward thinking modern urban music Eva Karman Reinhold as a music publishing and hip-hop. We’ve recently worked in USA, company and label, we have long experience and Sweden with artists such as G4shi, from the music business. Eva has worked in Bizness Boi, Deniro Farrar and Mavi Phoenix. the music industry since 1991, and as a music Rutilus is founded and operated by Finland’s lawyer for almost a decade. My LinkedIn-pro- own platinum selling pioneer hip-hop artist file: www.linkedin.com/in/evakarman/ Särre, and the company also serves as a label Our priority act I Am Karate is a female elec- imprint in the for modern urban artists in the tro pop duo, who’s self-released ‘Bitter’ has Nordic market. clocked close to a million streams on Spotify. Artists/songwriters/producers I Am Karate are just about to release their first three songs www.rutilusmusic.com since leaving a major label and have, once again, some really great music and control of all rights. I Am Karate official:

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16 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Laura Littauer listeners continue to enjoy. We gently push But there are so many more worth men- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR the listener to new emotional heights while tioning: Hanne Boel, Mikkel Nordsø, Claus SUNDANCE MUSIC / DENMARK enjoying both the “old” and “new,” as well as Hempler, Dicte Westergaard Madsen, Kath- [email protected] the familiar and exotic. rine Windfeld, Marilyn Mazur, Ridin’ Thumb, +45 2683 4960 Just as music can completely engulf our at- Dorado Schmitt, Rudy Smith, Stefano Bollani, tention, it can also act as a pleasant and Enrico Pieranunzi, Aaron Parks, Scott Hamil- subtle background atmosphere, providing ton, Harry Allen, Diego Figueiredo, Eliel Lazo listeners with a unique opportunity to explore a.o. For more than 35 years Sundance Music has emotions. Our music succeeds as a marvelous Furthermore, Sundance represent a record released music on the labels Stunt Records and sonic tapestry with formidable musicianship, store, a mail order company and a concert Sundance Records. Quality has always been superior compositions, poetic prose, and en- venue and we are a distributor in Denmark the hallmark of the company. Sundance works chanting vocals. Regardless of one’s relation- for international jazz labels, such as ECM, with the very best performers, musicians and ship to the world of jazz, it’s impossible to go ACT, Fresh Sound, High Note a.o. composers, using the best recording studios, wrong here! Personally I have been with Sundance Music technicians and producers. Our music has been synched to the critically for 9 years, but I almost grew up in the music Sundance represent a wide range of music acclaimed and awardwinning Danish TV Se- industry and have been working with all as- , but with a focus on jazz, world mu- ries (The Killing, Borgen, Rejseholdet, Ørnen pects of the business. Being with an indepen- sic artists and indiepop/rock, stretching the and so on) as well as to American Series and dent label, you get to work with every aspect boundaries and building bridges from tradi- International films. We offer high quality mu- of the company, which have been of great tional and modern jazz to sophisticated pop sic to professionals in advertisment, series, use being on the board of IFPI Denmark, MPO and live recordings, The company has released movies corporations etc. with transparent and Gramex. Educationally I have a master’s more than 5.000 tracks, whereof more than license conditions. in business administration and commercial half is published with Sundance Publishing. Our current high profile artists are Sinne Eeg law. Our mission has always been to break new & Kira Skov. Kira has a new album release in ground and reaching new music lovers each March feat. Bonnie Prince Billy and Sinne Eeg www.sundance.dk year, by identifying fresh talents and bringing is currently touring USA and Europe and re- them to expanding audiences. This, of course, ceives amazing reviews all over for her recent is in addition to maintaining our high standard release “Dreams”. of more traditional jazz music that our loyal

17 NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION APRIL 25–27 LOS ANGELES Sara Maria represent artist catalog such as Frøder, Elsa & Jarkko Ehnqvist Skarpaas Emilie, Emilie Nicolas, Kindred Fever, Comet A&R CATALOG MANAGER Kid, to mention a few. UNIVERSAL MUSIC FINLAND / SONY MUSIC NORWAY / NORWAY In addition to working in Sony, I am part of a FINLAND [email protected] voluntary crew organizing the niche festival [email protected] +47 9283 9340 Høstsabbat in Oslo every fall. +358 40 778 2031 Apart from this, my background is varied. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Man- I started as a Catalog Manager for Sony Music agement and one in Cultural Project Man- I`m an A&R at Universal Music and I`ve been Norway in January, and working proactively agement, as well as three years of Music working with our local artists but also with our with sync for our local roster is an important Production. Then one year of International international artists such as Saara, Lenno & part of my new role. Before this, I spent five Development Studies with fieldwork in the Laz Perkins. years in the local department where I worked mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, one year living closely with established and developing acts in Costa Rica and courses in Journalism and www.universalmusic.fi from all genres, first in promotion and then as as a Massage Therapist. a Product Manager. I loved this; however, I have Personally, I have always been a passionate always had a special interest in sync and the lover of both music, drawing, lyrics and ar- synergy between music and picture. So I am chitecture. I write songs and used to play the very happy for the opportunity to work with guitar and bass as well as experiment with music in this context. electronic music. Other interests are pho- Some of the acts on our roster are: tography, hiking, traveling and skiing in the Maria Mena, Amanda Delara, Alfred Hall, winter. And surfing (the conditions are a bit CLMD, , Kid Astray, DePresno, Bearson, colder in Norway than in L.A., though!) Back Alan Walker, Ina Wroldsen, Christel Alsos, Ryt- in Oslo I have a fiancé and a 14 months old meklubben, Loveless, , WNDR, Jesper son, who is a really cool little guy! Jenset, Nils Petter Molvær, SJUR, Davai, Auto- laser, KDL, BVD KULT, Marcus & Martinus, Chris- tiane, Unge Ferrari, Matilda, Big Bang, Sigrid www.sonymusic.no (local rights), AURORA (local rights). I also

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QUARTERBACK ENTERTAINMENT NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION INTRODUCES NORDIC MUSIC COMPANIES TO THE LOS ANGELES MUSIC INDUSTRY ON APRIL 25–27, 2018. THE TRADE MISSION IS AN ANNUAL JOINT EFFORT OF NOMEX, THE NETWORK OF NORDIC MUSIC EXPORT OFFICES.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TRADE MISSION, NORDIC SOUNDS SONGWRITING WORKSHOP SHOWCASES THE TALENT OF WOMEN AND BRINGS UPCOMING ARTISTS, SONGWRITERS AND TRACK-PRODUCERS FROM THE NORDIC REGION TO L.A. FOR A THREE-DAY SONGWRITING WORKSHOP AND MASTER CLASS SESSION APRIL 24–27.

PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT ARE THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND IN LOS ANGELES, CONSULATE GENERAL OF ICELAND IN NYC, CONSULATE GENERAL OF SWEDEN IN SAN FRANSISCO, NORWEGIAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN SAN FRANCISCO, NORDIC[LA], AND THE GUILD OF MUSIC SUPERVISORS. THE PROJECT IS FUNDED BY NORDIC CULTURE FUND.

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