Radio Promotions and PR

We provide promotional services to labels and individual artists, signed and unsigned, and specialise in working with leftfield, electronic, soul, funk, jazz, hip hop, roots and underground dance acts.

Our service is tailored to building artists profile through national/regional radio, core soul/jazz & specialist radio/press like Jazz fm, MI Soul, NTS, Rinse, Apple Music, Radio X, Soho Radio, Echoes Magazine, Blues & Soul, online pr/radio and crossing over to the BBC and commercial radio UK wide. We can also advise on servicing the DSP’s and can flag up releases to our contacts/playlists at Spotify and Apple.

International PR:

We also work with Will @ Only Good Stuff who provides a comprehensive international pr/radio service and together we link the dots between UK and International specialists at KCRW, PBS, FIP, Triple J, RTE, Nova, Inter FM, Pitchfork, Jazzwise, Dj Mag, Bandcamp and build towards key playlists and features.

Examples of Recent Campaigns

Jalen Ngonda on Daptone Records – 4 x BBC 6 Music playlists, 4 x Radio 2 playlists, 2 x BBC regional playlists. Multiple specialist playlist/feature support/sessions on Craig Charles 6 Music, Jo Whiley Radio 2, Jazz FM, Mi Soul, NTS, BBC iPlayer/ YouTube Piano Room and was in the UK national airplay chart for 10 weeks across 2 singles. Campaign achieved a 190 million audience reach across over 150 stations.

Ishmael Ensemble on Severn Songs – 4 x BBC 6 Music playlist support, Blockparty Feature Huey Morgan, Gilles Peterson 6 Music/WWfm, Tom Ravenscroft, Album Of The Year BBC 6

Dawn Richard on Merge Records – 3 x BBC 6 Playlist support, BBC 6 Album of the Day, Features on BBC 6 Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC London Robert Elms, NTS, Jamz Supernova 1Xtra/6Music and NME.

Bala Desejo on Mr Bongo- Playlist support at BBC 6 Music, Jazz fm plus BBC Maida Vale features with Gilles Peterson, Cerys Matthews. Campaign generated over 400 plays to 50 stations and an audience reach of 13.5 million

Mungos Hi Fi on Scotch Bonnet Records – 4 x BBC 6 Playlists and features on Steve Lamacq BBC 6 Music, David Rodigan BBC 1 Xtra, Ras Kwame Capital Xtra, BBC Scotland Vic Galloway, BBC Wales, BBC London Robert Elms.

Super Duty Tough Work on Outside Music/Next Door Records – BBC 6 Music playlist plus Huw Stephens and Craig Charles features on their debut campaigns in the UK.

Protoje on Mr Bongo – 2 x BBC Radio 1 playlist and 4 x BBC 1Xtra playlist. ‘Who Knows’ was the 6th Most played record of the year and the only Indie in the Top 10 end of year UK airplay charts.

Holysseus Fly – BBC 6 Music playlist on an unsigned artist on her first EP. Support from BBC South West Introducing and BBC Bristol session.

Shaun Escoffery on Dome Records – BBC Radio 2 playlist and features included; 7 x A lists, 1 x B List and 2 Albums Of The Week plus Radio 2 live in Hyde Park. Key specialist station playlists at Mi Soul, Jazz FM and beyond.

Artists by Genre

Jazz

Nurture Music has worked with the finest artists in Jazz from world famous labels including Bluenote, Acid Jazz and Brownswood and talent such as Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Jose James, Herbie Hancock, Portico Quartet, Miles Davis, Soweto Kinch, Brand New Heavies, JTQ, Cecilia Stalin, Jarrod Lawson, Hackney Colliery Band, Ed Motta, Soil & Pimp, Raul Midon and Wynton Marsalis.

Leftfield & Dance

Nurture has promoted a number of cutting edge dance and leftfield acts from labels like Defected, Brownswood, BBE, Sunday Best and K7 including Bugz in the Attic, Submotion Orchestra, Stanton Warriors, Osunlade, JD73, Faze Action, Riva Starr, Rae and Christian, Reel People, Joey Negro, Wookie, Lifford, Ben Westbeech, Llorca, Crazy P, Max Sedgley, Tim Deluxe, A Man Called Adam and Kraak and Smaack.

Soul and R&B

Soul music is at the root of most of what Nurture Music does and we have worked with independent labels like Dome, Jalapeno, Reel People/Papa Records and Hidden Beach and represented iconic soul artists from Amp Fiddler, Shaun Escoffery, Bootsy Collins, Al Green, Jill Scott, Aloe Blacc, Omar, Incognito, Earth Wind and Fire, Eric Roberson, Don-E, Smoove and Turrell, Mamas Gun, Larry Graham, Tony Momrelle, Mayer Hawthorne, Joel Culpepper and Avery Sunshine.

Electronic

Electronic music has been a core area for Nurture Music since it begun and we have worked with the finest acts in the genre including; SBTRKT, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jamie Lidell, Goldteeth, Little Dragon, Ady Suleiman, Marconi Union, Andrew Ashong, William Orbit, Digitonal, 30/70, Matthew Tavares (BADBADNOTGOOD), Charlotte Dos Santos and Jon Hopkins.

Roots and Hip Hop

Reggae and Hip Hop artists have been promoted as part of Nurtures overall core business of supporting music of black origin. We have worked with some of the icons in this area from Protoje, Guru, Jazzy Jeff, TY, The Nextmen, Grandmaster Flash, MF Doom, GDC, River Nelson, Dj Yoda, Essa, Herbaliser, Karol Conka, Hollie Cook, Fat Freddys Drop, Mungos Hi Fi, Brinsley Forde, Jesse Royal, The Hempolics and Soothsayers.

Singer-songwriter/ Blues

Acoustic folk, blues, country, soul and some of the best new singer songwriter artists on the scene have all been worked by Nurture Music. We have helped establish artists like Jon Allen, Robert Vincent, Charlie Watts, Martha Tilston, Me One, Sophie Barker, Jeb Loy Nichols, Matt Andersen, Ben Harper, Charlie Winston, Sophie Hunger, Bethia Beadman and Joseph Arthur.

Bands

Nurture specialises in working bands with soul, such as mod-soul acts Stone Foundation, D/troit & The Moons. Blues rock acts Little Barrie, Davy Knowles, The Dirty Feel, electronic act Laki Mera, psyche rock act Israel Nash and alt reggae punk act The Skints.

World/ Afro / Brazilian Funk

Nurture music has worked with some of the core labels in this area of music including Real World, Strut Records and Mr Bongo and artists like Tony Allen, Sergio Mendes, Arthur Verocai, Dennis Coffey, Bongos Ikwue, Banda Black Rio, Alex Cuba, Kit Sebastian, Sachal Jazz, Afriquoi, Ebo Taylor, Havana Meets KIngston and Mulatu Astatke.

D&B / Grime

From upcoming & established grime artists to D&B producers, we have worked with some of the cutting edge names in the scene from Sway, Dr Meaker, Kojey Radical, Riddim Punks, Blak Twang, Foreign Beggars, Shy FX, Gardna, DaVInChe, Punjabi MC, Kiko Bun, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Rodney P, Piers James and Swindle.