U.S. label AntiFragile signs Dan Sultan, Eden Mulholland

U.S. label AntiFragile has signed two more Australian artists; Dan Sultan and Eden Mulholland to worldwide deals excluding Australia and New Zealand.

Set up in 2004 by one time Lou Reed, Against Me, Roxy Music and Violent Femmes manager Tom Sarig, the label already has Tia Gostelow and British India on its roster.

Among its signings from overseas are Blanco White, David Ford, Lake Jons, The People The Poet and Natali Felicia.

Sultan’s Killer album is released in the US on Friday January 26.

Sarig said, “Dan is an incredibly talented, unique vocalist and songwriter who I think can have a worldwide breakthrough with us.

“His songs are heartfelt and emotionally real and urgent.

“I got chills the first time I heard ‘Kingdom’ and we are overjoyed to be working with him.”

In Australia, the singer-songwriter is working on two projects.

One is a 18-date solo Killer tour, starting on March 27 in Hobart (The Spiegeltent), with just him, guitar and piano.

The other is a reworking of songs from Killer by friends as Camp Cope, A.B. Original, Meg Mac and Dave Le’aupepe from Gang Of Youths.

Meantime Eden Mulholland – based on the Sunshine Coast and regarded as songwriter, producer, composer, video director, graphic artist and contemporary dancer –  released a new single ‘Forwarding Backwarding’.

It was first written in 15 minutes as a part of a collaborative dance theatre work called Amanimal, which he describes as “a witty look at animals, men and the worlds they build and break apart.”  

It premiered at the 2013 Auckland Fringe, for which he performed the score live onstage primarily with loop pedals with dancers Paul Young and Ross McCormack.

It went on to win Best Production at the festival.

He forgot the song until 2016 when he was in Los Angeles in with producer Neil Baldock (Crowded House, Sarah Blasko) and expats as Nick Gaffaney (Cairo Knife Fight) and Geoff Maddock (Golden Horse), and needed to get 15 songs together.

The single’s accompanying video was shot over three days in Perth with the 30-strong Co3 Youth Ensemble.

Its artistic director Raewyn Hill is a close friend of Mulholland’s, and he’s composed for Co3 a number of times. The last was a piece called The Zone in 2017.