Native Tongue is an independent music publisher, with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Besides acquiring rights to local writers, we also administer the works of overseas writers and catalogues for Australia and New Zealand.
Established in 2003, Native Tongue has built a respected catalogue of local writers. We set out to provide writers with a publishing company dedicated to assisting with the development of their skills as songwriters and composers throughout their careers.

Although we are a small company, we see this is one of our major advantages. It enables us to be far more proactive than our competitors and react quickly to the needs of our clients, whether they be film and television companies, commercial advertisers or the bands of which our writers are members.

We see our role as getting out there and getting things done, working with the band, the management, the record label and the distributor to make things happen.
Our job is to work with you to help you achieve your goals, as a songwriter and in many cases; an artist. We have a broad network of contacts we can utilise in all areas of the business – record companies, distributors, booking agents, promoters, publicists, radio, etc.

We will work with you, your management and record distributor to maximise sales of your record. You probably have most bases covered but there will always be something we can do to help squeeze those extra sales. It may be that we help a band get on a festival bill, provide advice on obtaining touring grants or come up with that song opportunity in a film that breaks through at the box office – who knows – it's an ephemeral business and its not always easy pinning down where things will come from.

If you are looking to place songs with other artists we have a worldwide network of contacts who work songs on that basis. If you want to co-write we will work with you to develop connections with writers you want to work with. If you want to compose film or television scores we are ideally placed to help you realise these ambitions.
We get out there and do the hard yards wherever it is required.
We have over the years developed publishing relationships internationally and through our music supervision business have come to know those companies who work particularly hard gaining sync licenses and pursuing the ancillary income that is available around the world. We have also established a network of international sub-publishers to administer our works around the world. In each case our sub-publishers are established independents with a long term track record of working within their own territory.

Native Tongue also enjoys strong relationships with all the major US, UK, Canadian and European music supervisors and can submit clients works for use in a wide range of projects around the world.

We are also the only publisher with offices and staff on the ground in Australia and New Zealand enabling us to fully represent your copyrights in the key markets in our home territory.
Native Tongue is closely associated with Mana Music, which is the major music supervisor for feature films, television series, and documentaries in Australia and New Zealand. As a result Native Tongue is in a strong position to place its writer's songs in the wide range of projects.

A similar situation applies in respect to television commercials where once again Mana Music is the major provider of licensing services to the advertising agencies.

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AUSTRALIA

Ph +61 3 9445 0500

PO Box 1570
Collingwood, VIC 3066
Australia

Chris Gough - Managing Director
chris@nativetongue.com.au

Jaime Gough - International Manager
jaime@nativetongue.com.au

Daniel Younger - Creative Manager
daniel@nativetongue.com.au

Gaylene Williams - Copyright & Royalties Manager
copyright@nativetongue.com.au

Natalie Bell - Licensing & Admin Assistant
natalie@nativetongue.com.au

NEW ZEALAND

Ph +64 9 378 9667

PO Box 8926
Symonds Street, Auckland 1150
New Zealand

Savina Kim - Creative Manager
savina@nativetongue.co.nz

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Ragamuffin Children BIOGRAPHY

The Ragamuffin Children like tea parties, living room concerts and singing about serious and sensible subjects such as war and poverty and also about whimsical things such as aliens and hot air balloon adventures.


Ragamuffin Children are established Christchurch musicians and are flourishing talent in New Zealand. They bring to the stage beautifully crafted songs that are performed with imagination and soul, and their unique rapport with the audience creates a cosy and intimate ambience.

 

Anita Clark (vocalist, fiddle, guitar) and Brooke Singer (keyboard, songwriter) formed the Christchurch duo in 2006. Brooke Singer is an accomplished songwriter and pianist, whose melodies have gained national recognition through winning LOOP recordings 'Rise and Shine' song writing competition. Anita's soulful and sincere voice resonates with a pure and unique quality which, teamed with Brooke's song writing and animated piano playing, produces a distinctly original sound.

 

'It's always refreshing to hear musicians sound as good live as they do on record. It gives me hope that there is real talent out there, and that it hasn't been over-produced to hide any poor vocals or instrumentation. The Ragamuffin Children are The Real Deal - Anita Clark and Brooke Singer do not need to have overdub after overdub to show some semblance of skill, it's already there in abundance..'


'Brooke Singer is surely one of the country's finest young songwriters, showing a flair for elegant melodies and an interesting way with words' www.nzmusician.co.nz

DISCOGRAPHY & CREDITS

  • The Seahorse Emporium (2009, She'll Be Right Records)
    The Seahorse Emporium (2009, She'll Be Right Records)

    "The Seahorse Emporium is the Ragamuffin Children's second album: A collection of curio's, tales of seahorses, storms, snakes and struggles, recorded in November 2008 at Wellington studio 'The Surgery' by Lee Prebble." Amplifier

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  • Werecat Lullabies (2007, She'll Be Right Records)
    Werecat Lullabies (2007, She'll Be Right Records)

    "This is The Ragamuffin Children's debut album, out through She'll Be Right Records. Twelve original songs with an array of instrumentation including cello, clarinet and glockenspiel. Minstrel the singing dog also gets a cameo on the record." Amplifier

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