Maximal Music Sync is thrilled to announce the addition of New York-based singer-songwriter Hayley Coupon to our roster! 

Having already drawn national attention for her introspective songcraft and distinctive vocal power, Hayley Coupon is poised to reveal the true scope of her talent with her highly anticipated debut album, WIRE AND ROPE. Set against a spare yet surprisingly lush backdrop provided by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Craig Street (Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson) and a cast of studio all-stars, songs like the finely etched “All You Gave” and the first single “Curse Me” bend diverse musical genres into new forms to suit the astonishing gravitational force of Coupon’s widescreen vocals and equally potent lyrical voice.

Coupon grew up in New York City and was immersed in its “cultural pulse” right from the very start, attending opera, theatre, and concerts of all kinds with her mother from the age of three. The music inspired her to sing, loud and often, a talent nurtured during middle school to the point where Coupon knew it would be her life’s work. 

Coupon released her debut EP, REMEMBRANCE, in 2013, followed two years later by a second EP, DO THE RIGHT THING, LIKE YOU SAID YOU WOULD, prompting T: The New York Times Style Magazine to declare her the city’s “New Chanteuse To Watch.” Coupon continued to work on songs and performance, finally making a long desired “huge leap forward” via her collaboration with Craig Street.

Street took an old fashioned approach to Coupon’s artistic development, allowing her time and space to find her own route. Though she had built up a stockpile of songs, the producer asked her to start from scratch.

In 2015, Coupon went to Texas for a pair of writing and demo sessions at El Paso’s renowned Sonic Ranch. Located on 2,300 acres of pecan orchards bordering the Rio Grande and Mexico, the studio – the largest residential recording complex in the world – proved the ideal locale for her continuing creative evolution. Coupon found her songwriting voice at Sonic Ranch. Street further complemented Coupon’s songs with a remarkable array of session players, including guitarist Davíd Garza, bassist Sebastian Steinberg (k.d. lang, Dixie Chicks), keyboard player Jebin Bruni (Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann), guitarist Chris Bruce (Seal, Meshell Ndegeocello), and drummer Abe Rounds (Andrew Bird, My Brightest Diamond).

With WIRE & ROPE ready at last for its long awaited arrival, Coupon plans to herald the album with a series of live shows in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a national tour accompanied by the multi-talented Garza.

We're so excited to welcome the multi-talented, Reykjavik, Iceland-based production and songwriting team High Hat (Janus Rasmussen, of Kiasmos and Bloodgroup, and Sakaris Emil Joensen), including electro pop artist SAKARIS, to the Maximal Music Sync family! Read on to learn more about both projects. 

HIGH HAT

High Hat is a production/songwriting duo based in Reykjavik, consisting of long-time friends and collaborators Janus Rasmussen and Sakaris Emil Joensen. Originally from Iceland’s sister country Faroe Islands, the two musicians relocated to Reykjavik to expand their ventures. Janus is best known for being one half of acclaimed electronic duo Kiasmos and electro pop band Bloodgroup. In addition to his own solo project, Sakaris has been active as a producer and songwriter for more than 10 years. Since forming the High Hat collaboration, the pair has settled down in a fully equipped and treated studio by the Reykjavik harbor, working daily on writing, producing and mixing for a variety of Icelandic and international clients. The duo’s focus is mainly on electronically produced music, working on everything from fully featured vocal pop to beat-driven hip hop to ambient dance to advertisement music. The duo has worked with a range of popular artists, including Arnor Dan (from Agent Fresco), Hildur, Árstiðir, GDRN and Heidrik. In addition to this, they have also provided music for TV shows, commercials, and radio programs. The combined expertise of the two producers provides an effective and inspired workflow, delivering world class productions and mixes.

SAKARIS

SAKARIS is the main project of Faroese electro producer Sakaris Emil Joensen. Starting out in 2010 with his quirky 8-bit electro funk debut "Darling EP" and further establishing himself with the full-length 2012 album "I Have Beautiful Eyes", SAKARIS has become one of the most prominent electro artists from the remote and tiny Faroe Islands. The music ranges from tight, bright and optimistic dance music, to soaring 80s nostalgic soundscapes. The latter years have been littered with performances on various prominent festivals, such as Spot Festival, JaJaJa Festival, G! Festival, Dias Nordicos and Waves Vienna, along with press hype from Clash Music, Wired UK and The Line of Best Fit.

Maximal Music Sync is over the moon to announce the addition of our newest signing, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Sera Cahoone! 

Across her four critically-acclaimed albums, including 2017's From Where I Started, Sera has become known for creating stirring, hushed Americana music that embodies raw emotionalism. Her songs have always been the sort that grab the listener by the collar and pull them close. And yet fans may not even realize they’ve yet been held at arm’s length until they hear the revisited arrangements on her new, forthcoming EP, The Flora String Sessions, due for self-release on April 20, 2018.

The Flora String Sessions revisits some of Cahoone’s most beloved fan favorites from across her remarkable career, with just her starkly honest vocals and guitar plus violin, viola, and cello. It’s somewhat of a greatest hits collection, albeit with more intimate, stunningly beautiful arrangements by Led to Sea violist Alex Guy.

Cahoone has always been a master of intense lyrical intimacy. And while her exquisite live band has provided her previous recordings with lush, intuitive instrumental support, there is something remarkably pure about hearing some of the best songs of her career delivered in this more nuanced manner.

As Cahoone has steadily gained a wider audience over the past twelve years, the Denver- native-turned-Seattle-mainstay (and former member of Carissa's Weird and Band of Horses) has toured with Son Volt, Kathleen Edwards, Blitzen Trapper, and Gregory Alan Isakov, to name a few; but it was a duo tour with Guy that set the pair spinning toward The Flora String Sessions.

We're so happy to welcome Ft. Collins, CO based singer-songwriter Kyle James Hauser to the Maximal Music Sync family! Kyle’s music career began auspiciously: he performed at CMJ, SXSW and the Toronto Int’l Film festivals; was a competitive finalist at Telluride Bluegrass and Rocky Mountain Folk festivals; and released his first record Oh Oh on sonaBLAST! Records. 

A graduate in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music, Kyle James Hauser went on to study banjo under Jayme Stone, Noam Pikelny, Chris Pandolfi and others. He’s been involved in over a dozen album releases over his career, and his album You a Thousand Times reached #1 on Colorado Public Radio a month after its 2014 release. His songs are featured in film and television, including Judd Apatow’s The Big Sick, MTV's series 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom, Where Hope Grows and many more.

Kyle has shared the stage with Nathaniel Rateliff, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Head and the Heart, Brett Dennen, John Hiatt, David Grisman and more. Playing with Colorado band Rapidgrass (2014-2016), Hauser released two albums and toured internationally, most notably headlining La Roche Bluegrass Festival in France and winning 2015’s RockyGrass Competition. In 2015, Hauser also seized the opportunity to co-write a ballet with one of the country’s most highly-regarded regional ballet companies, the Louisville Ballet.

In addition to his recording and touring career, Hauser currently serves as Programs Coordinator for the Detour touring program at Bohemian Foundation’s groundbreaking incubator, The Music District and has been involved in music nonprofits Louisville Folk School (as co-founder), Think 360 Arts, Colorado Music Collective, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He also teaches songwriting at the Berklee College of Music and has given masterclasses at schools all over the country, including Oberlin Conservatory and Swallow Hill.

We're elated to add the Bosshouse catalog of songs and masters to the Maximal roster! L.A.-based Bosshouse Music was founded in 2002 by composer / songwriter Stephen Phillips.  Since its inception, the Bosshouse and Transphonic Records catalogs have secured thousands of placements in episodic television, film, advertising, and trailers.

The BH team, including CEO/Founder Stephen Phillips and Amy Roberts as Senior Director/Creative Marketing, has a philosophy of  working from “the inside out” as composers, which has served Bosshouse exceptionally well from day one and continues to be an unbreakable model in all things sync. Bosshouse Music features over 2000 tracks of high quality, vocally-driven songs and underscore, while Transphonic Records provides clients with access to bands, artists, and singer-songwriters.

2018 has welcomed the addition of SottoPhonic Productions into the Bosshouse family.  SottoPhonic is specifically geared toward trailer music production, master reimagining, and underscore composing.

We're psyched about our newest Maximal signing, Atlanta-based rockers Baby Baby! These guys are too awesome for words, so we're going to let them introduce themselves: 

We are Baby Baby from Atlanta. I am Fontez Brooks. I sing songs and play the guitar. I am Colin Boddy. I like a good cocktail kit and yelling is fun. I am Grant Wallace. I hit drums and have a thriving lawn care business. I am Hsiang-Ming Wen. I slappa da bass and haven’t had a hair cut in years.

We play fun-rock. We’ve played it at Riotfest, Made In America, Afropunk Fest(s), Warped Tour and for Red Bull’s 30 Days In L.A. We’ve toured with Fishbone, Black Lips, and some other bands worth mentioning, but we won’t.

We just released 2 songs called “Here” (which is an ode to old Atlanta) and “Boys Poop Too” (which is about male sensitivity).

Our managers say we are “a mélange of Indie, English and Swedish Punk, Bayou Rock, Vaudeville and Carnival”.  But what do they know. They use big words which we don’t understand.

We're excited to announce Maximal's newest signing, award-winning UK musician, producer, and author, Colin MacIntyre, a.k.a. Mull Historical Society and Field Stars! Colin has had two UK Top 20 albums and four Top 40 singles since the release of his Gold-selling debut album, Loss. With his latest project, Field Stars, he's creating electro art-pop produced by the Grammy-winning Dom Morley (Amy Winehouse's Back to Black) and mixed by Lars Norgren (Tove Lo's Habits). 2018 will also see the release of Colin's new Mull Historical Society album, Wakelines, produced by the Mercury Award-winning songwriter and Brit Award-winning producer Bernard Butler (Suede, McAlmost & Butler). 

In addition to making amazing music under his various monikers, Colin is also the author of the novel The Letters of Ivor Punch (W&N/Orion), which won the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, and will have two more books out this year-- his memoir, The Boy in the Bubble, and his children's book, The Humdrum Drum, a picture book with accompanying original songs and audiobook. 

Maximal is thrilled to announce our newest signing, Brooklyn-based indie singer-songwriter, Rue Snider! This coming Friday, March 2nd, Rue will release the first single, "Vamonos", off of his forthcoming album, City Living. 

Welcome to Maximal Music Sync's online home! We'll be updating the site as we grow our roster of artists and catalogs, so there will be more to see here soon.