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TAMIZDAT RPM
Online Music Shop, Wholesale Distribution, Promotion Collective
In November, 1999, Tamizdat launched Revolutions Per Minute, an on-line information source and music shop which provides an international forum for non-commercial musicians from throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In three years, Tamizdat RPM has grown into a coalition of 100 innovative labels and hundreds of artists who work together to expand their world-wide profile. Tamizdat RPM Retail sells CDs, vinyl, and books directly to customers over the Internet. Tamizdat RPM Wholesale sells to regional distributors, shops, and mail-order catalogues all around the world. Tamizdat RPM organizes cooperative world-wide advertising, promotion, publicity, and distribution. For a complete list of our distributors, please check out our links page.
TAMIZDAT DISPATCH MAGAZINE
eMagazine & Newsletter
In September of 2000, Tamizdat began publishing Dispatch, an e-mail newsletter providing culture news, concert and festival reviews, interviews, and features regarding new music and culture in Central and Eastern European. In the first year, the subscriber list grew to include more than 8000 music fans, music industry personnel, and journalists from all around the world. Enthusiasm for Dispatch has been so strong that in the autumn of 2002, Dispatch became a full-scale on-line magazine. Dispatch provides current local and regional culture information in English, covering all aspects of music and music related news in Central and Eastern Europe, with special attention given to culture-related hard news, minority and non-commercial culture.
TAMIZDAT VISA SERVICES
Tamizdat's Visa Services program has eleven years of experience arranging working visas for artists wishing to perform in the US. Charging significantly less than commercial agencies, Tamizdat has played an important roll in bringing a wide range of artists from all around the world to the US. Our client base includes many of the world's leading artists, agencies, record labels, and promoters, and has been covered in Billboard, The Wall Street Journal, The Vilage Voice, and numerous other major publications.
TAMIZDAT SERVICES & RESOURCES
Business Consulting, Resource Center, Back-line Project
Tamizdat provides a wide variety of programs designed to help directly ensure the success of independent artists and cultural projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Through Tamizdat's Business Consulting program, our experienced staff provides Central and Eastern European artists and music industry with assistance in planning, public relations, and promotion, as well as tour booking and production assistance in the US, Canada, and Western Europe. Our Resource Center makes available a wealth of crucial trade resources in many aspects of the world culture industries. Lastly, Tamizdat's Back-line program helps make touring in the US possible by providing musical equipment for touring Central and Eastern European artists. Tamizdat provides all these programs free of charge, on an ability-to-pay basis, or significantly below commercial prices.
EVENTS
Tamizdat Performances and Trade Events
Tamizdat creates contexts for cultural exchange with the Tamizdat Performances series of concerts, festivals, tours, and local events which bring artists from Eastern and Central Europe together with artists from the rest of the world. Tamizdat has organized events throughout Western and Eastern Europe, US, and Canada. Artists who have participated include Ecstasy of St. Theresa, The Plastic People of the Universe, Vera Bila and Kale, DJ Vadim's Russian Percussion, Chris Cutler, Uz Jsme Doma, Robert Poss, Iva Bittova, Ruins, Matt Darriau, Gary Lucas, Gogol Bordello, Blinker_Inc., Tarwater, Sex Mob, Nylon Union, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, and Jim O'Rourke. Tamizdat also organizes representation for Central and Eastern European music industry at major western music industry Trade Events like SXSW, CMJ, and POPKOMM.
TAMIZDAT ARCHIVE PROJECT
Tamizdat's Archive Project is a critical historical preservation initiative, designed to ensure that underground and dissident music of the Soviet Communist era be preserved, and that its history be available for academic study. From the 1930s through the 1980s, music played a crucial role in the culture and counter-culture of the "Communist Bloc." Dissident and underground music was repressed by officials throughout the years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe. Despite adversity, however, a counterculture of illegally recorded and distributed music thrived and formed a crucial thread in the fabric of society under Soviet Communism. Since 1989, considerable efforts have been made by a number of organizations to develop archives of the "samizdat" literature produced by Communism?s "underground" writers. Unfortunately, no similar systematic international effort has been made to collect, catalogue, preserve, and make publicly available recordings produced by Communism?s "underground" musicians. Since underground recordings were made on highly volatile media, if this work is not undertaken soon, much if not all record of this crucial history will be lost. Tamizdat, in cooperation with George Washington University?s Counter Culture Archive, is developing a long-range project for the identification, collection, conservation, and presentation of recordings made of dissident "underground" musicians from throughout Central and Eastern Europe, during the years of Soviet Communism.
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