Glass Beams Signs With Concord Music Publishing ANZ
Glass Beams strikes a global publishing deal with Concord Music Publishing ANZ, The Music Network can reveal.
Led by the enigmatic, masked Melbourne musician Rajan Silva, Glass Beams’ recording career is two EPs deep, the first of which, Mirage, dropped in 2021.
Wielding a unique look and sound, an exotic fusion of chillout and World Music, the act has enjoyed “remarkable international success,” reads a statement from Concord, by selling out every show on their debut European and North American tours.
Glass Beams’ first-ever North America run in 2024 included performances in Las Angeles, Denver, Santa Ana, San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Albuquerque, New Orleans and Atlanta, plus additional festival performances at Portola and Austin City Limits.
Along the way, the act sold out a show at New York’s 3,000-plus capacity Knockdown Center. It was a similar story on the other side of the Atlantic, where Glass Beams played two back-to-back nights at London’s 700-capacity EartH Theatre, the second of which sold-out just 2 minutes after going on sale.
“It truly is a privilege to welcome Rajan to the family,” comments Jaime Gough, managing director of Concord ANZ. “Rajan is a supremely gifted artist and songwriter, who through Glass Beams has created a unique brand of serpentine, psychedelic-tinged music, capturing a spirit that drifts between worlds; mystical, elusive, and endlessly mesmerizing. We are excited for the journey ahead.”
The new arrangement follows the release in March 2024 of the EP Mahal, through Ninja Tune worldwide, which entered at No. 5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and No. 13 on the Billboard Jazz Albums tally. Live performances are lined-up this year at Coachella Music & Arts Festival and Barcelona’s Primavera Sound.
Glass Beams was initially conceived through Rajan’s rekindling of childhood memories, shaped by his father’s experience immigrating from India to Melbourne in the late ’70s.
One of the musical moments that shaped his young mind was watching the Concert for George – a 2002 tribute to the late Beatles guitarist George Harrison at London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Jeff Lynne.
“It is this spirit of cross-pollination between East and West, of old and new, that he has sought to capture in the self produced works of Glass Beams,” reads a statement introducing Glass Beams to the Concord Music Publishing roster, “whose output presents a timeless fusion of cultures and sounds beamed through a prism of live instrumentation and DIY electronica, all wrapped up inside a mesmerizing and mystical visual world of their own making.”
Concord Music Publishing ANZ was formed in August 2022 when Concord acquired the Australia-based music publisher Native Tongue. Led by Gough, the publishing firm is headquartered in Melbourne with staff in Sydney and Auckland.