Who comprises the labels management team?
The core team comprises myself, Cam Merton, Malcolm Riddoch, and Stuart Medley. We’ve also been lucky enough to have the wonderful Miriam Lamey come on board as our US-based representative and team member. Are you a purely digital music label or do you produce CDs and vinyl too? Purely digital, although we have had some interest from a few distributors in the US which has prompted us to look at the prospect of physical release there. The Hidden Shoal recordings I’ve heard (Sankt Otten’s Wir koennen ja Freunde bleiben, Slow Dancing Society’s The Sound of Lights When Dim, Wes Willenbring: Somewhere Someone Else) are all superb and deserving of wider recognition, and I’m presuming that others in your catalogue are equally strong. How do you deal with the challenge of increasing public awareness of the label to ensure that such high quality music gets heard? Firstly, we do the basic regular things that any label would do in terms of pushing to get reviews, radio play, and other press. That