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Look To The Moon has been described by the collaborators as the ultimate “pan-cultural summer driving song”! It is a song that never could have been written by the various parties on their own. Martha Johnson and Mark Gane of Chemical Dreams (and Martha and the Muffins) saw John Orpheus perform at the Confidence Emperors album launch for The International Sound System Party, Volume 1 compilation at The Drake Underground in June 2019. Says Johnson, “His dynamic stage presence made an impression on us and we thought he was an interesting guy that we could work with someday.” Adds Gane, ““Several months later we were pitching a track for a car commercial which called for a dance/club feel. Martha made some beats with a hip hop feel and I added some rhythm guitar, but we needed another element and John immediately came to mind.” The single and video are now available on all platforms.

Link: https://smarturl.it/looktothemoon

Pre-Save New Chemical Dreams Single Featuring John Orpheus

July 15, 2020

Chemical Dreams, John Orpheus, Martha and the Muffins, Martha Johnson, The Confidence Emperors

Afro Pop, Afrobeat, Pop, Soul

You can pre-save or pre-order the new Chemical Dreams single today! Chemical Dreams is produced, co-written and performed by the team of Martha Johnson and Mark Gane of Martha and the Muffins. The project is as unpredictable as your dreams will be tonight. There is no set theme or style. One minute it could be a sultry love song and the next you might be hearing a rhythm Grace Jones would be happy to hula-hoop to all night long. And like dreams, a song sometimes comes out of the blue from somewhere beyond your imagination. Such a song is Look To The Moon, a collaboration with John Orpheus that they collectively describe as “a pan-cultural summer driving song”! It will be available on all platforms starting July 29th.

You can pre-save or pre-order the single here:

https://sym.ffm.to/qvxkvjp

Martha And The Muffins Release New Single And Video

May 26, 2020

Martha and the Muffins, Popguru Sound & Vision

Dance, Indie Pop, Pop

As the Coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, Martha Johnson and Mark Gane of Martha and the Muffins decided to challenge themselves by reimagining their song Come Out and Dance from the Mystery Walk album and ended up creating a whole new track called Stay Home and Dance. This coincided with Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi saying at an April 2^nd press conference that “You can never dance too much, especially when you’re home.” With a new dance groove, the duo dedicates Stay Home and Dance to all the doctors, nurses, first responders, farmers, truckers, factory and postal workers and the countless others who are keeping it together for all of us.

The video for the song has an interesting origin. Back when Mark Gane was working in a wallpaper factory for the summer and wrote Echo Beach, he “liberated” some extra wallpaper and, inspired by the artist Christo, decided to cover his parents’ house in wallpaper while they were away on vacation. The never-before-seen footage of the event has been incorporated into the video along with footage of Mark and Martha Johnson’s daughter Eve and her cousins as toddlers dancing inside their house.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL3OUTo8OcA

Link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5V8cTXpycVPQes2GBJlAvj

Link to Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/stay-home-and-dance-single/1513636545

MOJO Releases New Single

May 22, 2020

MOJO, Popguru Sound & Vision, SyncGuru

Electronic Pop, Indie Pop, Pop

MOJO releases her single Rule The World today! Check it out on Spotify.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/62Uo8dKpwqt1zBI2Z4inNc

Popguru Signs First International Artist

April 30, 2020

Mike Schlosser, MOJO, Popguru Sound & Vision, SyncGuru

Alt Pop, Electronic Pop, Indie Pop, Pop

Popguru has signed Swedish-raised, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Moa Munoz. Her new project, MOJO, is punchy pop with attitude and a large dose of self-empowerment. MOJO is “what a self-help book would sound like if written by a beat-obsessed whirling dervish”. She has collaborated with Popguru producer/songwriter Mike Schlosser to create songs with bouncing bass lines and hooks that stick like gum! Mojo is your new favourite, confidence-boosting cocktail. The new tracks are available by request. So, reach out.

Popguru Signs Zoe Xandra For Sync Representation

December 14, 2019

SyncGuru

Alt Pop, Pop, Singer Songwriter

We are happy to announce that we have signed Toronto-based singer/songwriter Zoe Xandra for sync representation. Her forthcoming EP is called TMI (which stands for Too Much Information) because, in her opinion, it is. She says that, “I’m generally not an openly emotional person or the first one to share my inner thoughts. Each song is personal to me and relates to different life lessons that I’ve gone through. Releasing these personal songs is so out of my comfort zone that it just felt like TMI.” On the EP, Zoe was able to really experiment with different sounds from super stripped back piano and vocals to electronic synth sounds and back to acoustic guitar while still having a cohesive story come through each track including the previously released singles Tokyo, Blah Blah and Better Off Alone.

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Chemical Dreams Single And Video Featuring John Orpheus Now Available On All Platforms

Pre-Save New Chemical Dreams Single Featuring John Orpheus

Martha And The Muffins Release New Single And Video

MOJO Releases New Single

Popguru Signs First International Artist

Popguru Signs Zoe Xandra For Sync Representation