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|  Tina Dickow - releases her new album
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Tina Dico has been released from her international contract with SONY/BMG. She is now speeding up the release of her new album and welcomes her SPOT 11 gig as an opportunity to warm up her new international contacts.
When big companies merge, things invariably get rather blurred. That also applies for the latest merger in the record industry – the marriage between SONY and BMG, a side effect of which is that Tina Dico has been released from the contract she signed with SONY last summer.
This means that she is now calling the shots herself, and therefore she releases her new CD “In The Red” produced by Chris Potter (The Verve etc.) on 25th July rather than late August/ early September, which was SONY/BMG’s original intention.
The first single “Nobody’s Man”, is out already, and it has become this week’s “track of the week” on Danish Radio – P3. It offers a few hints about the sound and feel of the coming album – “more open and accessible” than ever before according to Tina herself. The album consists of 11 songs, eight of which are brand new, while two are re-recordings from “Notes” and finally one from “Fuel”.
- Obviously it was quite a blow at first to learn that I was no longer part of SONY/BMG’s plans, but it only took half a day before I had recovered and was focusing at the opportunities that were opening up. The time after Sony merging with BMG was a strange experience for me. The SONY people who signed me and who I had been working with, had been moved to other departments, and the BMG-people I was then teamed up with didn’t know me or my music. I think they are going to rely a lot more on hit-oriented music and Top 10 than what I stand for, says Tina Dico, who can point to the fact that names such Alicia Keys and Macy Gray have suffered similar fates – and they have managed quite well since then, haven’t they?
- Well, in spite of everything, I can’t really complain. SONY/BMG have been really fair to me. They have given me the advance they had promised me in spite of the annulment of the contract. And they have given me the finished album, which we can now release both in Europe and the US – without demanding more than a modest share of the profits from future sales, says Tina Dico, who adds that it is the ambition for her and her manager, Jonathan Morley, to get a European deal with a company that takes an active interest in her music and then an American ditto. They hope to get an EP out this autumn and then the actual album in January. In Denmark the album is going to be released by A:larm.
The new situation makes her gig at SPOT so much more important for Tina Dico – she is counting on her manager to get a few international A&Rs to see her performance.
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