HiddenMasters

HiddenMasters is a pioneering contemporary music archive service founded by Neil Storey who established the company to serve an important but neglected market. Many artists who were popular 30 to 40 years ago have extensive musical legacies that have never been properly documented. Indeed, in many instances, only a small proportion of their recordings have ever been digitised. By combining specialist knowledge to exhaustive research and digital renovation, HiddenMasters facilitates the discovery of long-forgotten music within these artist’s catalogues that masters’ rights holders in many instances don’t even know exists. In doing so, HiddenMasters generates previously untapped revenue streams for those masters’ rights owners as well as publishers and artists alike. Nevertheless, HiddenMasters isn’t confined to artists who were current decades ago – far from it; the company has collaborated with Chasing Dragons, Gemma Hayes’ imprint on very limited run editions of two new releases that were issued in 2014 & ‘15. As much as each ‘legacy set’ is career defining, each ‘new set’ is prepared with the same care and attention to detail – each is the aural equivalent of a Genesis Editions book and all are undertaken in full collaboration with the artist (or their estate) with exemplary design and packaging being standard. With Hidden Masters | The Jess Roden Anthology (issued in 2013) sold out - the next legacy edition is Evening Blue, centered around co-founder of Traffic, Chris Wood – a lavish, 212page hardback book edition comprising 4CDs and the first ever release on vinyl of his long-thought- lost solo LP. Evening Blue will be issued via Caroline International on February 3, 2017.