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About Alto Entertainment & Media

Our aim as a record company is to bring new, creative and original music to the listening public. We are a broad based company involved in diverse musical projects from current chart music and songs through to more esoteric styles. The common thread that underlines our approach is originality and significant talent from a portfolio of great artists.

About our artists
Musicians and artists that join us will benefit from extensive resources to fuel their creative talent. This investment provides a solid foundation for success in getting their music and songs in front of a global audience. We are dedicated to developing our artists' careers, promoting their work and establishing recognition for long term success in a highly competitive and changing music scene. Latest News

Simon Le Fort
Simon creates a stunning mix of poetic lyricism and music on this, his debut album 'Tuesday Blue’.

The captivating lyrics entwined in his music are down to earth, topical and relevant. They are keenly and politically well observed, sometimes dark, sometimes romantic. This combined with superb playing skills inspire and hold the listener from start to finish.

Alto Entertainment & Media…launches trading with an amazing array of talent set to break the charts! “Our investment in artist development makes our music offering irresistible” says Jeremy Drew, Managing Director. “We are working with a number of exciting groups and singer songwriters who will contribute enormously to the current global music scene".

Alto Artists

Simon Le Fort
Simon's new album was produced by Matt Butler who has worked with many top artists such as Paul McCartney, Chris Rea, Steve Harley, Dire Straits, Mick Jagger, Luther Vandross. He recorded and mixed the album at Alto's own high end recording facility Yellow Shark studio.

Simon Le Fort Biography
When Simon was little, he dreamed of becoming a Formula One Racing Driver, although from a very early age he also knew that he wanted to sing. Age 4, you would find him singing his heart out to family members and friends and from the age of 6 he recalls jotting down melodies and words to sing aloud.

Born and raised in Hereford, he was first inspired by the sound of his father playing guitar and singing to him. As he grew older he began to experiment at the piano, he joined a cathedral choir and sang alongside the country’s top orchestras, recording on television and radio.

After several years of classical training in both voice and piano, his aspiration to become a Racing Driver faded and he began composing his own work, greatly influenced by his dad’s copy of ‘The Beatles Complete Songbook’. He first met Matt Butler, the producer of Tuesday Blue, whilst performing some new songs at college; Matt was intrigued by Simon’s talent and asked to be kept up to date with developments of his work.

At 19 Simon moved to London to study music where he became disillusioned by the lack of creative freedom, and after a year, moved back home. For the next three years he had various jobs in offices, factories, supermarkets and the local council. This period gave Simon inspiration and insight into everyday working life, resulting in him writing ‘Nothing Changes’ and ‘Tuesday Blue’. “Songs are a way of helping me to understand life, I find the process of writing them therapeutic and by observing situations around me, I get stuff off my chest” – Simon Le Fort

Re-applying to university in 2002 enabled him to devote more time to his composition; York’s English course re-ignited his passion for live performance and also introduced him to many other talented musicians. Simon’s graduation in 2005 coincided with the rediscovery of his old recordings by Matt Butler. Matt says: “When I first heard Simon I knew immediately that he was the real deal, he wrote music from the heart with lyrics that he believes in, he’s a highly original, gritty songwriter with an incredible voice”.

The producer invited him to the Yellow Shark studios in Cheltenham to make a demo, which soon led to Simon being offered a contract by the newly established Alto record label. The result of this creative partnership, the debut album Tuesday Blue, will be released in Spring 2007.

www.simonlefort.com

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Contact Alto

A&R Submissions
The A&R Department will listen to your music as quickly as possible, however due to the sheer volume of demos that we receive, we’re sorry that we are unable to personally respond or return your music.

What to send
Our policy is to release and publish artists who produce original material only. Please send the best of your repertoire, no more than five songs along with your contact details, including address, phone number and email.

Where to send
Alto Entertainment & Media LLP
121 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 1NW
Tel: 01242 242121 Fax: 01242 242120
Email: music@alto.co.uk