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Wise Music Group Acquires Catalogue Of Legendary Italian Film Composer Riz Ortolani
9th December 2020
Wise Music Group is proud to announce it has acquired the catalogue of legendary Italian composer Riziero ‘Riz’ Ortolani. Ortolani, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 87, was one of the most important Italian composers of the last...
Sony Masterworks & Wise Music Group Announce Strategic Partnership
3rd December 2020
Sony Music Masterworks, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, and Wise Music Group today announced a new strategic partnership to identify and sign top artist and composer talent.Masterworks and Wise Music will work together to sign new...
Ariel Marx Releases New Album 'Luthier'
13th November 2020
Sundance Music and Sound Design Lab fellow and multi-instrumentalist, composer Ariel Marx, known for her work in television and film, has released a "love letter to strings" on Node Records. Luthier, Marx's latest solo album, is available...
Ólafur Arnalds Releases New Album 'some kind of peace'
6th November 2020
Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and composer Ólafur Arnalds has today released his new album, some kind of peace, on Mercury KX. The album is a vulnerable and daring exploration on what it means to be alive with Ólafur urging the listener...
Brandon Beal co-writes Lukas Graham’s new single ft. Wiz Khalifa
5th November 2020
Wise Music-signing Brandon Beal continues his working relationship with Danish artist and songwriter Lukas Graham on Lukas’ new single “Where I’m From”, where Beal is a co-writer. The single features American rapper Wiz Khalifa and drops...
Melissa Parmenter Releases New Album 'Messapica'
30th October 2020
Melissa Parmenter's beautiful new album Messapica is out now. Named after the Puglia region in Italy where Melissa has a house; the album is a tribute to the country she knows and loves so well, with each track named after a town nearby...
Bankey Ojo Scores Para-Cycling Documentary 'Outcast'
20th October 2020
Wise Music Group Composer Bankey Ojo provides the original score and sound design to director Simon Lane's para-cycling documentary Outcast. Human resilience is the focus in the documentary which began "when Simon's sister Crystal...
Adriano Koch Signs To Wise Music Group
23rd September 2020
We are pleased to announce that Swiss composer & artist Adriano Koch has signed to Bosworth Music, part of Wise Music Group. Adriano Koch creates art without borders or constraints. To this end, he mixes the traditional acoustic piano with...
Ludovico Einaudi Releases New Collection Of Work
21st September 2020
Ludovico Einaudi's latest album is out now, released last Friday 18th September. Einaudi Undiscovered is a special collection of hidden gems, unreleased tracks, live renditions and lesser-known material from his soundtrack work, all...
WaqWaq Kingdom Release New EP 'Dokkoisho'
21st September 2020
Following the success of their last album Essaka in 2019, WaqWaq Kingdom (Shigeru Ishihara and Kiki Hitomi) have returned with their brilliant new EP Dokkoisho released on Friday 18th September. Dokkoisho is a Japanese word, an informal...
Wise Music Announce Agreement To Represent The Catalogue Of Paco de Lucía
21st September 2020
Unión Musical Ediciones, part of Wise Music Group, is thrilled to announce the global agreement reached to represent the catalogue of the legendary flamenco guitarist and composer Paco de Lucía. Throughout his career, having reinvented...
RIP Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert
16th September 2020
Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, Grammy-Award winning multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and front-man of the legendary Jamaican group ‘Toots and the Maytals’, sadly passed away on Friday 11th September at the age of 77.The news was...
Hugar Release Latest Single 'Reykjavik'
2nd September 2020
Hugar's latest single 'Reykjavík' is out now. Off their up-coming album The Vasulka Effect: Music for the Motion Picture, due out October 2nd, 'Reykjavík' is a "gentle, orcehstral track" which "spills forth like a stream of water over a...
Ólafur Arnalds Announces Up-coming Album 'some kind of peace'
28th August 2020
Ólafur Arnalds has announced details of a brand-new album, 'some kind of peace', due for release on November 6th. His most revealing and vulnerable work to date, the album is announced today alongside a beautiful new track, ‘We Contain...
Toots and the Maytals Release New Album "Got To Be Tough"
28th August 2020
Toots and the Maytals Release New Album Got To Be ToughToots and the Maytals' long awaited new album is out now. Got To Be Tough is Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert's first album of brand new songs in over a decade. The energising provocation of...
Shaka Loveless Features On New Single 'Higher' By Outlandish
14th August 2020
New single "Higher" by Outlandish ft. Shaka Loveless Danish rap group Outlandish has just released their new summer single "Higher" featuring Shaka Loveless on the chorus. Listen to the single on Spotify.
Ólafur Arnalds Releases New Single
11th August 2020
Ólafur Arnalds' new single 'Back To The Sky' is out now. Released last Friday 7th August via Mercury KX, the track is in collaboration with, and features the vocals of, fellow Icelandic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JFDR...
Music + Sound Award 2020 Winners
29th July 2020
The Music + Sound Awards 2020 winners were announced last week, and we are delighted to say a Wise Music Creative project won! 'Nature Fights Back' by Hauschka featured in Apple At Work - The Underdogs was awarded Best Sync In Online...
Drexler Releases Debut Album 'Handles'
20th July 2020
Handles Drexler’s debut album is out now. Released on Friday 17th July, the album is inspired by new beginnings and ideas of rebirth. The music infuses intimate chamber strings with tender piano tones, ambient synth, minimal percussion and...
'I May Destroy You' Featuring Wise Music Tracks
20th July 2020
Michaela Coel’s BBC series, 'I May Destroy You' has been a phenomenon over the last 6 weeks. The series has been praised for it’s use of music throughout and Wise Music Creative was a leading partner, licensing 5 songs across the...