Friday, 15 January 2016

New Year, New Tunes

PennyBank Tunes


JW Media Music is pleased to announce a new addition to our music library, PennyBank Tunes!!

This original and authentic catalogue was born in France. Art Director Helen Bank founded the company in 2008 and focuses on titles by artist-composers with unique acoustic styles.
The music is original and has a wide variety of styles; this is perfect for signature tune, documentaries, advertising and TV.

Helen Bank launched her career in music by working as a singer songwriter followed by collaboration with the well-known Vangelis under the Phillips Label. Bank has a great background of experience as an art director, producing big hits for Koka Media, BMG and Universal. Pennybank works with a team of renowned composers and producers, taking production music in new directions.



Pennybank Tunes catalogue focuses on productions oriented by musical artistic events based on artistic meetings. The Profiles Collection is crafted for documentaries, 30'sec Trailers, underscores, TV series & corporate films as well as background music. It's minimalistic, repetitive, ambient & sound design with drones & soundscapes in different styles & genres. Rather than songs or musical styles the collection Profiles focuses on moods & atmospheres.




Artists/Composers

Archie Pena
Archie Pena is an innovative artist and has been a member of the International Music Scene for over twenty years. He has worked with artists such as Whitney Houston Pharrell Williams, Madonna, Shakira, John Legend and many more. Archie Pena is an exclusive artist, his distinctive style and personality has made him one of the most favoured percussionists in the music industry.

Gabriel Saientz
Two time Latin Grammy award winner Gabriel Saientz has performed with renowned artists such as Chayanne, Thalia, Gloria Estaban, Melton Mustafa and many others. Gabriel has signed several deals with Muzak, Essential Music (ABC's "All My Children) and has written and produced TV commercial music scores for MTV, Pringles, Ford, HSBC and HBO.

Claudio Spiewak
Claudio has been nominated for three Latin Grammy in 2003 and for one in 2014 for his work with Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo on the album "Rio, Chor, Jazz." Not only had that he received the Platinum Record for recording with Shakira on the album "Donde Estan Los Ladrones?" Claudio's originality led him to compose and produce music for TV and adverts including BBC, MTV, ABC, NBC, TLC, Discovery Channel and Bravo.

Ron Dziubla
Ron Dziubla has performed and recorded with artists such as Duane Eddy, Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera, Raphael Saadiq, Richard Hawley, Ellie Goulding and plenty more. He is a inventive Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist (guitar and keyboards), and has appeared in several TV shows such as The Oprah Show, The Ellen Show, 2007 and 2010 Latin Grammy Awards Telecast, The View and The Today Show. In June 2011, Glastonbury Festival in England hosted Ron to perform with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, Duane Eddy. Ron was also featured on Duane's first release in 25 years, Road Trip.

Gilbert Sigrist
This talented pianist has composed and worked on a number of songs and albums, including the work such as the 1978 album "Dynamood" and "Circus of Life" (2000) with Jean-Jacques Perrey who has also composed several tracks for Pennybank Tunes. Gilbert introduced the Gilbert Sigrist Trio with his son on bass and Francis Wininger on drums. They successfully created "Les Jazz Comptines," he was the first to jazzify. 

Ashley Dow
Finding inspiration in the 20's & 30's, Ashley Dow specialises in Country Blues in Europe and his music is distinctly diverse. His music adapts the original compositions of the masters of Mississippi Blues in Ragtime music, Swing and Blues during the Great Depression in the US.  Ashley's music has been placed in visuals including Drive Angry (2011) and Mad Men (2007). Ashley is a master in lap Steel Guitar, National resonator, Ukulele and the Dobro. Making him even more exclusive than what he already is.

David Cabrera
David Cabrera has worked and composed with many high profile artists in many different styles and genres. He has also toured and recorded TV and video as a musical director and musician. A few of the names includes Lauren Hill, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, P Diddy, Queen Latifah, Mary J Blidge, Sting, R Kelly and a hell of a lot more.

Charlie Mccoy
Since the 60's Charlie has played on dozens of hit records including working with legends such as Elvis Presley, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison. Charlie is worldwide famous and performs every year in Europe and Asia, more commonly in France, Japan and Denmark. On February 4th 2009, it was announced that Charlie McCoy, Roy Clark and Barbara Mandrell will be initiated in to the Country Music Hall of Fame on May 17th 2009. What an outstanding achievement.

Jean Jacques Perrey
French electronic music producer Jean-Jacques Perrey, was an early instigator in the genre. He is best known within the sphere of popular music as a member of the influential electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his unusually light-hearted style of music.

Evert Verhees
Evert Verhees is a bass player and has composed with a variety of artists which includes working on three albums with Keane. He has been credited for his work on commercials for Esso, Royal Oporto, Midas, Cash Fresh and Felix Peanuts. Evert composed the song “Sous Ses Yeux Là ” & collaborated on Mauranne's last hit album in 2014. Evert has teamed up with many of PennyBank Tunes' great artists & composers such as Bert Verschueren, Eric Malertz, Marc Bonne & Cesar Janssens.

We are so happy to have Pennybank Tunes on board with us for the New Year, let us see what 2016 brings....

Music Briefs to:

ellie@jwmediamusic.co.uk

chris@jwmediamusic.co.uk

karis@jwmediamusic.co.uk


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