BONGO BEAT DISTRIBUTION
*please note: we are no longer carrying any releases by Dock/Borderdreams.
We are taking a chill on trying to be distributors.
THE BONGO BEAT SHOPPING CART (Hosted by CDBABY)
Influences
C.R. AVERY, "the boxer who just returned from london"
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MERYN CADELL, "the sweater"
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FRAZE GANG, "Jackhammer
The Bedsit Poets. "The Summer That Changed" video
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Kevin House - Twilight In Wilderness video
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Paul Hyde - I Miss My Mind The Most video
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Sounds Like
Ralph, "we're the people that love forgot (excerpt)"
Filmed at Lennon's in Liverpool with Ari Shine & Dave Rave on guitars.
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Ari Shine, "Flirtation Device" - This is a clip from the real life concert of Ari Shine's Dec 30 broadcast to Aroha Island (Second Life). Ari's CD EP, age/occupation, is re-released on Bongo Beat Records this Jan 9.
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Johnny Dowd, Live in Vancouver, Sunday, Aug 6, 2006. The Railway Club.
One of the best live shows you'll see this year.
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BEDSIT POETS, "Reach For The Sky" Live in LA at International Pop Overthrow Festival
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LINDA McCLEAN, "All Around" Filmed at her place in Northern Ontario.
CINDERPOP, "Bastian Cooper", directed & filmed by Chris Hooper.
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DAVE RAVE & MARK McCARRON, "At The End Of Day". Filmed live, Oct 24. 06, at the Mo Pickins Club, NYC. From the forthcoming cd, In The Blue Of My Dreams.
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RALPH, "Goodbye Jack. Kerouac." From the album, "This Is For The Night People"
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KIMBERLEY REW, "Philip Larkin" - extremely rare solo appearance AND interview!
2009
Alternative TV
Ralph
Kevin Quain
Kimberley Rew, "Ridgeway"
NOM
Kimberley Rew, "Bible of Bop"
White Room compilation
Diodes, "Action Reaction"
Diodes, "Time Damage" Vinyl Only
Graham Brown & The Paririe Dogs (asap)
Plunt (March)
SEPT 2008
Bedsit Poets
AUGUST 2008
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
For 2009, Bongo Beat celebrates 14 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 working national promo, retail, and tour press. 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 Proper, SPAIN by Dock (limited selection), and in Germany, we are distributed by New Music. Sonic Rendezvous Holland carries some titles also. 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 you are a Montreal store or Ralph knows you cause you guys partied in the 80s or something.
Music Supervisors scouring MySpace pages for sync ideas - 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
Italy
Asia
If you are looking for Ralph Alfonso's page, please click on his Friends link.
hey Ralph... thanx for the cd's be sure that i will speak about bongo beat label in my next PoPToPia broadcast! and guess i luv Kevin Kane... remind me a bit Brendan benson
BB Thank you for the friendship. Welcome to GYPSYBILLY music a new addition to the BILLY family. Keep up the good work with the artists. Merci The Vignatis
Captain Storm
Concert acoustique samedi 6 juin 2009 à 20h
(première partie de Bang Everything That Moves)
Au Continental Café
69, bd de Strasbourg
Métro Strasbourg-Saint-Denis
Entrée libre, possibilité restauration sur place
Puis on fait tourner le juin :
A l’OXFORD à Béthune
Le 13 juin à 21 h
129, bd Jean-Moulin
Au Royal à Barbizon (77)
Dimanche 21 juin à 15 h 30
50, Grand-Rue
Aux Pierres qui Roulent
Samedi 27 juin 2009 à 20 h
Entrée libre
25, avenue Corentin-Cariou
75019 Paris
M° La Villette
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