Tia Gostelow inks new deal with US label AntiFragile Music
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2017will be a year to remember for young CentralQLD based songstress Tia Gostelow. Not only didshecelebrateher 18th birthday but shealsoreleased a hugelysuccessfulsingle “That’s What You Get”, played to thousands of people all around the country, impressed delegates atBIGSOUND and cleaned up atthe Queensland Music Awards. Now,In the lead up to the service and release of her newest and most assured single “Hunger”, Tia Gostelow has signed global recording and publishing deals.
Tia is pleased to announce a recording deal for the world excluding Australia and New Zealand with forward-thinking US label AntiFragile Music. AntiFragile is the brainchild of Tom Sarig, best known as the manager for Lou Reed, Against Meand Cake. Tom was also an A&R executive at A&M and MCA Records.AntiFragile will be releasing Tia’s new single in tandem with her team in Australia and New Zealand.
Highly respected Melbourne based music company Native Tongue has also just signed Tia to a global publishing deal. Their working relationship kicks off with her inclusion in their annual songwriters camp in November. Other Native Tongue’s writers include Alex Lahey, Marlon Williams& TheJezabels.Native Tongue is also connected with LA-based music supervisors Sugaroo who are the leading lights at placing Australian music in US film and TV.
The new single “Hunger”was co-writtenwith Little May’sHannah Field andLiz Drummond andproduced by longtimecollaboratorKonstantin Kersting (The Belligerents) at Airlock Studios.Tia digs into the details of how “Hunger” came about during a writing session with Little May here – “We started chatting away just having a casual conversation about music and our life and we got onto the topic of how I had been experiencing a lot of tall poppy syndrome back at home. I had always struggled with making good friends and staying in friendship groups all through out high school, I always felt a bit like I was an outsider, I wasn’t bullied or anything, I just always felt people didn’t understand what I was doing with music and how serious I was about it.”
“Hunger” will be officially released on November 10 followed by a gritty performancevideo featuring her full band.