Release Important Music
With a focus on our love for vinyl, Tsurumi Records has one simple goal: Release important music. In support of our artists and audience, we are a record label dedicated to pressing, promoting, and selling records. We’ve modeled our label on the times you purchase an album by an artist, simply because of your trust in the label that released it.
Name and Logo
Tsurumi Records is named after the ward where Jeff was living in Japan when he decided to start this record label. Tsurumi Ward is known as a hard working area with many factories and a busy port. Within Tsurumi there is the Tsubasha Bridge, part of the Shuto Expressway, that connects to the famous Yokohama Bay Bridge. This bridge makes it possible for cars to go over the famous bridge. Like this bridge, Tsurumi Records’ aim is to help artists move forward in the music industry, set up for transition to a more famous record label if that is the path they take. This bridge is the source of our logo.
Release Management
We are an all rights global distributor. We provide support for production, song registration, meta data management, distribution across the Digital Streaming Platforms (DSPs), and promotion via social platforms and media outreach.
Our agreements start with digital distribution and promotion. Production of CDs and Vinyl LPs are added on as it makes sense with the bands business goals and performing plans (CDs and LPs sell best at shows). We provide physical distribution for the LPs we press for record stores nationwide to place orders.
In partnership with OPE Global Publishing Administration, we provide songwriter registration support, register and track songs, and collect income for those songs direct at source from hundreds of societies around the world.
Our combined efforts of distributing recordings and songwriter administration result in a controlled catalog, ready for licensing for sync in movies, television, commercials. If you are looking for something for your soundtrack, let us know so we can help you find it!
Tour Support
We currently do not do tour support, so please contact us if you are booking a tour and have interest in including any of the artists you find here.