Rudolf Hasselblatt

function:
booking & publishing
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company:
Griot GmbH

participation in

WOMEX 2000
WOMEX 2001
WOMEX 2002
WOMEX 2004
WOMEX 2005
WOMEX 2006
WOMEX 2007
WOMEX 2008
WOMEX 2009
WOMEX 2010
WOMEX 2011
WOMEX 2012

Rudolf Hasselblatt worked with theatre and music ensembles in Amsterdam from 1980 - 1988, the time of the Festival of Fools (Samba Salad, Pidgeon Drop, Jango Edwards etc.). It was there that he acquired crucial experience with stage-set design, light design and stage direction.

The concept of a booking agency soon turned into a concrete address for organising performances and concerts. The associated services, such as media work, tour planning, promotion, advertising rounded off the agency's range of services. Its specialisation, the placement of European and Latin American theatre and music groups playing Latin, jazz, flamenco and blues, took things in a "global" direction, to the world music sector.

With Tom "Tornado" Klatt, of Recklinghausen, Rudolf Hasselblatt founded the music publishers called inspyration publishers, which focused on the discovery of unknown material. Their greatest coup: they discovered as yet unknown recordings by Tony Scott (clarinet) from the 1950s for the very first time, previously unreleased. The performances in Germany by Saynkho Namtschylak on her first tour of the West were also taken care of by them.

Between 1988 and 1993 he represented New Albion Records (now under the roof of szenario arts), an avant-garde label from San Francisco, in Europe. (Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen etc).

Hasselblatt discovered the secrets behind the marketing of pop music at ZYX Music, in his capacity as head of the promotion department, and at Bellaphon Records, as head of product development. (Motörhead, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Two Unlimited, Twenty-4-Seven, Matt Bianco, Capella, Olivia Newton John, Michael Morgan, Carlos Peron etc.)

After two years in Switzerland (cod music, CD Distribution) he joined the world music label Network Medien in Frankfurt, where for twelve years he took responsibility for international distribution and licence administration.

Through szenario arts, Rudolf Hasselblatt has been putting his long years of experience at the disposal of young artists and creative people since 1996. The setting up of an independent music publisher in 2007 was a consistent step at a time when control of copyright and exploitation rights are increasingly the main focus of the marketing of creative works.

As a strategic move away from the sound carreir into the live business, he is now associated with Griot, an agency for bringing nowadays music to European stages.

The question which preoccupies him most at the moment is the future of the music markets in the post-CD era ("Music 2.0").