Photograph Credit score: Salaam Remi & Man Moot / Warner Music Group
Warner Chappell Music companions with legendary producer Salaam Remi’s Analog Metaverse, boutique rights administration firm and music writer.
Warner Chappell Music (WCM) introduced a brand new partnership with Analog Metaverse, a boutique rights administration firm and music writer based by legendary document producer and music government, Salaam Remi. As a part of the deal, WCM will collectively administer the vast majority of the corporate’s expansive music catalog, together with Remi’s personal works, in addition to that of artists like Dennis Brown, Don Blackman, Bobby “Digital” Dixon, and Terri Walker.
Spanning a long time and genres, the Analog Metaverse catalog options over 2,000 songs, together with classics and modern hits like, “Lady On Hearth” by Alicia Keys, “Cash In My Pocket” by Dennis Brown, “All I Need Is You” by Miguel and J. Cole, “Fu-Gee-La” by the Fugees, and “Right here Comes the Hotstepper” by Ini Kamoze. The catalog additionally contains the Ivor Novello Award-winning music, “Stronger Than Me” by Amy Winehouse, and Remi’s eight different co-writes with Winehouse, probably the most co-writes of all her collaborators. Remi and his group, composed of Kwame Kandekore (Head of Authorized and Enterprise Affairs) and Josephine Westphal (Vice President of Royalties and Administration), have fastidiously curated this catalog over the past two years, and proceed so as to add to it.
“Having the good thing about being a songwriter and writer myself, I totally perceive the significance of getting companions who not solely recognize the great creations of the icons from the previous couple of generations, but additionally may help us carry them into the longer term,” shares Remi. “My Analog Metaverse group — Kwame, Josephine, and I — acknowledge how beneficial companions like Guy Moot [WCM Co-Chair and CEO] and the complete Warner Chappell group are in shepherding these classics to new audiences.”
WCM CEO and Co-Chair Man Moot concluded: “I’ve personally identified Salaam for greater than three a long time, and it’s such an honor to be entrusted to shepherd not solely his personal life’s work, however that of legends like Dennis Brown. Carianne [Marshall, WCM Co-Chair and CEO] and I are very intentional concerning the catalogs we work with and actually take into consideration how we will develop and have a tendency to them, each at the moment and for the years to come back. There’s loads of synergy between our strategy and Analog Metaverse’s mission, and it’s nice to be becoming a member of forces to assist writers and their estates understand their full potential.”
