LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Andrew Freedman Public Relations) -
Music industry veteran Evan Medow has joined AECG (Alan Ett Creative Group) as a partner and as President of the newly named Opus 19 Music, AECG's music publishing arm, it was announced today by AECG President & CEO Alan Ett. In October, AECG expanded its activities in worldwide entertainment by creating a partnership with Fuji Media Holdings through its U.S. subsidiary, Fuji Entertainment
America (FEA). Through this partnership, the Japanese media conglomerate is re-establishing its North American footprint after it sold Windswept Holdings LLC in mid 2007. Medow, the former CEO of Windswept, will acquire new assets on behalf of FEA that will be administered outside Japan and Southeast Asia by AECG, a pre-eminent full-service music provider for all aspects of the media community. During Medow's nearly 20 year tenure at Windswept, he was widely respected for taking a proactive role in finding and developing catalogs, songs and songwriters. Under his supervision, the company became one of the premier independent music publishing companies in the world.
Medow's first deal for FEA and AECG is the acquisition of the Los Angeles based companies, Six Palms Music and Third Story Music, home to a classic repertoire that includes compositions by Tom Waits (Ol '55, Tom Traubert's Blues, I Hope that I Don't Fall in Love With You), Alice Cooper (School's Out and Eighteen), Fred Neil (Everybody's Talkin') as well as Hey Joe (as recorded by Jimi Hendrix and countless others) and 1800 other copyrights.
'There couldn't be a better fit for our company,' says Ett. 'With Medow's highly skilled background in the music industry and his relationship with Fuji and extensive industry contacts, he's ideal for the position.'
'Alan and I share a common vision of the future in this time of change in the music business,' says Medow. 'Our relationship with FEA provides us with the resources to acquire and develop music that we find interesting. With the pervasive use of music in all types of media, the combined capabilities and catalogs of the new publishing company and AECG will allow us to provide or create music for any user.'
'Six Palms' classic copyrights such as Everybody's Talkin' have endured over generations and have had a constant appeal in the current era of change. We designed FEA/AECG partnership as a platform to acquire classic catalogs and develop new methods of musical rights exploitation,' says Hico Koike, President of FEA.
The breadth and scope of Medow's experience as a music attorney and music publishing executive is enormous. He has been personally involved with the evaluation, selection and/or purchase of upwards of $500,000,000 of music publishing catalogs and has prepared for sale and supervised the sale process of music publishing catalogs valued upwards of $375,000,000. Medow has represented clients as diverse as Mums Records, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Music Publishing (now Warner Chappell Music Publishing), Columbia Pictures, Geffen Kaye Music Publishing, Pony Canyon Records along with many successful songwriters, producers and artists. Among the talent whose work was published or administered by the companies represented by Medow are: The Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Paul Williams, The Carpenters, Peter Frampton, Steve Winwood, Beyonce Knowles, Will Jennings, John Lennon, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Bo Diddley, Tommy James, Kool & the Gang, Ambrosia, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, Tito Puente, The Turtles, Elmore James, Ritchie Valens, The Isley Brothers, Kanter and Ebb, Henry Glover, Hank Ballard, Roger Miller, Bobby Darin, Johnny Otis, George Jones, Phil Spector, James Brown, Pete Townshend, The Who, John Waite, Quincy Jones, and Burt Bacharach.
Medow is currently on the board of directors of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and Harry Fox Agency, the foremost mechanical licensing, collections, and distribution agency for U.S. music publishers. He has served on the ASCAP Advisory Board and has been an ASCAP board member. Additionally, Medow served as a board member and President of the Association of Independent Music Publishers for several years. He received his undergraduate and law degree, a Juris Doctor, from UCLA and is a member of the California and Federal Bars.
