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Here you will find in brief some information about my company's activities:

On April 1st, 1997 Rattay Music was founded in Aachen, Germany. Before I enjoyed 7 years of working as a product manager at CMP Records. There I had the pleasure of working with artists like Jack Bruce, Andy Summers, Trilok Gurtu, David Torn, Mick Karn, Joachim Kühn, David Liebman, to name a few.

In the beginning Rattay Music operated as a marketing and publicity agency for Jazz/ Rock/ Folk/ World only. Later we introduced our own publishing branch and founded the label rent a dog in late 2002.

Our publicity agency offers Press & Online Promotion, Radio & TV Promotion as well as Tour Promotion. We are very open to various musical styles and genres with a special focus on Singer/Songwriters, Jazz, Blues, Folk & World Music, which may be proven by the following list of artists we have worked for:

Joan Baez, Majid Bekkas, Tim Berne, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Botanica, Jackson Browne, Paul Buchanan, Jeff Buckley, James Carter, Nels & Alex Cline, Steve Coleman, Ry Cooder, Cowboy Junkies, Alela Diane, DJ Spooky, George Duke, Pee Wee Ellis, fDeluxe, Andy Fairweather Low, Ruthie Foster, Richard Galliano, Golden Gate Quartet, Johnny Griffin, Trilok Gurtu, Jon Hassell, Levon Helm, Andrew Hill, Robyn Hitchcock, Roger Hodgson, HR Bigband, Freddie Hubbard, Jansen, Dr. John, Mick Karn, Albert King, Alison Krauss, Paul Kuhn, Joachim Kühn, Mike Ladd, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sonny Landreth, Huey Lewis And The News, Little Feat, Los Lobos, Loudboy, Nick Lowe, Gary Lucas, Shelby Lynne, Manhattan Transfer, Manufactur, Matching Mole, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Phil Manzanera, Bennie Maupin, Vince Mendoza, Michael McDonald, Andy McKee, Meat Beat Manifesto, NDR Bigband, Willie Nelson, No More, William Orbit, Courtney Pine, Tineke Postma, Bonnie Raitt, Romano/Sclavis/Texier, Josh Rouse, Matt Schofield, Tony Scott, Alan Skidmore, Soft Machine, Ron Spielman, Markus Stockhausen, Chip Taylor, Henri Texier, Richard Thompson, Those Darlins, David Torn, Colin Towns, McCoy Tyner, Underkarl, Jimmie Vaughan, Laura Veirs, Loudon Wainwright III, They Might Be Giants, Waterboys, Fred Wesley, Weather Report, Norma Winstone, Robert Wyatt, Yes

We are used to working closely with the following German distributors: Rough Trade, AL!VE, edelkultur, Indigo, NMD, Warner, Broken Silence, Codaex.

Here's a list of our clients so far:
ada (US), aktivraum (D), alchemy (US), art of groove (D), b-flat (F), babel label (UK), basho (UK), blue pearls music (D), cantaloupe (US), ccn'c (D), cmp (UK), cobalt (F), cryptogramophone (US), cuneiform (US), douglas (F), dune (UK), edel content (D), effendi (CN), enja (D), erdenklang (D), expression records (UK), fargo (F), grundsound (D), halfnote (US), igloomondo (B), in & out (D), inside (US), intuition (D), jazz secrets (D), kind of blue (CH), kobalt digital (UK), label bleu (F), lusafrica (F), ma recordings (US), meyer (D), minium (F), naive (F), new world (US), nonesuch (D), nrw (D), nugene (UK), obliqsound (US), ozella music (D), palmetto (US), pi recordings (US), proper (UK), prova (B), provocateur (UK), rent a dog (D), roir (US), rounder (US), silva screen (UK), six shooter (US), skycap (D), specific jazz (UK), sugarhill (US), sunnyside (US), thirsty ear (US), unit (CH) vanguard (US), wergo (D), yellowbird (D)

We are always open for exciting music!

Ulli Rattay

btw: I am still playing guitar!
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