Mushroom Music Publishing

Pollination Music

Pollination Music was started in Spring 2002 by U.K. producer manager Stephen Budd and US songwriter/producer Rick Nowels and Fume Recordings owner Seamus Morley.

Songwriters

Redrama
Rapper/hip hop artist Redrama is Lasse Mellberg, a 24 year old songwriter based in Helsinki Finland. Redrama is currently promoting his debut album in Europe and the UK. He has also been collaborating with several Scandinavian artists as a producer and songwriter. Red will have a new album ready for release in March 2005.

Tore Johansson
Tore became known to the wider music community as the producer of all the Cardigans albums and singles. He has since worked Tom Jones, St Etienne, A-ha and many others.

As a writer, Tore has co-written with Melanie C for her current album and has recently been writing with Sinead Quinn (of UK Fame Academy) and has a track on her Mercury album, Aussie starlet Jay Smith, Sophie Ellis Bextor (Polydor), Jodie Seymour (Sony S2), Lucy Harrison (Edel), Sophie Barker from Zero 7 and Faye Tozer from STEPS for their new albums.
Tore recently produced the 2,000,000 selling debut album by Franz Ferdinand (Domino), featuring the hits 'Take Me Out', 'Dark of the Matinee, 'Darts Of Pleasure' & 'Michael'. Over the last few months, Tore has worked with several other artists including Atlas (Virgin), Lunik (EMI), Bonnie Pink, Chiaki Seike and Celena Cherry (ex-singer from The Honeyz). He has cuts on the new Melanie C album, which will be released independently throughout the world.

Carsten Kroeyer
Carsten is a brilliant young Danish writer/producer living in London. He specialises in giving a unique modern-electronica vibe to his songs and productions. After working with various bands in Scandinavia, Carsten moved to London in 2000. He has very quickly established himself as a cutting edge pop song writer and has recently scored his first top ten album in the U.K. with Appleton for Polydor records. Carsten has just produced a track he has written for ex Spice Girl Victoria Beckham (Telstar), and has been writing with Adarma aka Emma Holland (Jive Records), Faye Tozer (Jive) Lisa Scott-Lee from STEPS (Universal), Lucy Sylvas (Mercury), Jennifer Ellison (East West) and TOMI (Sony: Carsten who also has cuts on the new Melanie C album and the 'Upa Dance' album (a TV project for Globo Spain and licensed throughout europe), has been writing and producing his own album 'Flo', which is in negotiation for licensing deals with various European independent companies.

Valgeir Sigurdsson
Valgeir is from Reykjavik in Iceland where he also owns Greenhouse studios. Valgeir has a long association with Bjork, programming, mixing and co-writing her last two albums 'Vespertine' and 'Dancer In the Dark' and is currently working on her new album. In the past he has worked with influential acts such as Mum and Sigur Ross. Valgeir is now working extensively with Howie B as a co-writer and co-producer.

Recently he has written and produced tracks with Thomas Heinrich for Sony Germany, and earlier this year he went on a successful writing trip in Australia, where he co-wrote with Mandy Kane for Warners and Sandrine Daniels for Sony. Valgeir has now completed the new Bjork album 'Med?lla' which is due for release September '04. Val is now working on his own album which will feature collaborations with Bjork and several other artists. Several co-writes have been cut from his writing trip to Australia last year. He also continues to co-write with various artists (including Nitin Sawney's prodigy Tina Grace) and is working with Morten Harkett (from Aha) on material for his new solo album.

Warren Suicide
Berlin based band Warren Suicide are currently touring their debut album in Europe and the UK. The single 'Warren Suicide' was released in the UK in July by Fume Recordings and was picked up as a single of the week on BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq's weekly show. Warren are currently promoting their next single 'Butcher Boy' throughout Europe and have just headlined for Clear Channel at the Amsterdam Dance Event in October 2004. Two tracks from the album have been picked for the new GranTurismo 4 game (estimated sales of 10milion world wide) and two UK commercials.

2004

Pollination have two new artist signings, Narco (Fume) and Kiosk (Surface 2 Air) both from the UK, and both of whom will be releasing international recordings later on this year.

Pollination founder Rick Nowels who recently wrote and produced the world-wide hit for Santana and Michelle Branch, is currently writing and producing new albums for Dido, Britney Spears, Jewel and Shaznay from All Saints. This year Rick is looking to sign two young writers from the US whom he is working with. This will generate major copyrights for Pollination Music over the coming years.

Pollination will carry on building on the success of their signings from the last two years. Our current roster of writers are all co-writing and producing with a wide range of artists. We aim to build on the strong foundations we created for them in 2002-3 while also supporting them to develop their own projects such as Valgeir's forthcoming album on Howie B's label.

We also aim to sign a further four writer/producers from the UK in the coming eighteen months. With our affiliation to Stephen Budd Management, Europe's largest producer management company, we are in a position to source some of the best young creative talent in the industry and put the into writing and production situations with the cream of the worlds recording artists.