Deborah Smith 
With the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we are in uncharted territory in many aspects of our lives. Within the music industry, we have seen this start to affect a lot of artists and businesses especially within live music. Many festivals have now been postponed including SXSW, Glastonbury, Coachella and Liverpool Sound City. Numerous artists are … Read more
Anara Publishing are pleased to announce the signing of Swarathma, one of India’s top folk rock bands. The band comprises of songwriters Jishnu Dasgupta, Joel Milan Baptist, Pavan Kumar KJ, Sanjeeva Nayak Sooda, Varun Murali and Vasu Dixit. Swarathma’s sound fuses together Indian folk with rock, reggae and blues. They stand out from the crowd … Read more
To cap off a busy summer that has seen us at Brighton Music Conference, Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape, MIDEM and in Los Angeles, the end of August saw me spend two weeks in India at our Mumbai office. It’s always enlightening to visit India as it’s a country with a music scene that’s … Read more
Anara Publishing and Arms Production Music are delighted to announce their partnership with ROBA Production Music. The partnership sees the entire Arms Production Music catalogue represented in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for licensing within media. This includes the Film, Broadcast, Radio, TV, Advertising and Multimedia industries. Arms Production Music is a specialist production music label … Read more
2018 has been an exciting year for us at Anara Publishing. As the year draws to an end, we’ve taken a little time to reflect on our highlights from the past year. We have seen our roster grow with some amazing additions stretching from the USA to the Middle East and Asia. In 2018 we … Read more
We were thrilled to be invited to speak at the Off the Record conference in Manchester earlier this month. Now in its third year, Off the Record brings an impressive array of panel conversations, networking and a festival to Manchester’s iconic Northern Quarter. The event sold out for the third successive year and it’s easy … Read more
It may sound cliche, but there’s a reason why people say the key to surviving in the music industry is down to who you know. Getting to know people in different areas of the music industry can be an invaluable way to learn how things work. Building relationships can be greatly beneficial to your career … Read more
Anara Publishing are pleased to announce that ambient and experimental composer Tom James Parmiter has joined their roster. The deal sees music from his releases Imperfect Symmetry (2014), Laws of Motion (2015) and Travels (2018) as well as previously unreleased works represented for publishing and sync licensing worldwide. Born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, … Read more
We caught up with the synthwave producer Brandon ahead of the hotly-anticipated release of Retrochrome, his most polished release to date. It’s been a little while since 2016’s EP ‘Neon Haze’. What have you been working on in the meantime? Since the release of Neon Haze, I’ve released a bunch of tracks as singles. While … Read more