HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL : ANISONG COVER PROJECT

“HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL through HAF RECORDS presented ANISONG COVER PROJECT inviting singers from all over the world”.

This project is inviting singers from all over the world to join our anime song cover project, where we release anime song cover that had permitted by the publishing company and release it through various platform. The singers that join our project will have profit sharing and also more opportunity such as to be the singer for an original song for anime and game that have tied up with our company as opening and ending songs.

From all the singers that join the anime song cover project will be reselected and the qualified singers will have a change to be debuted by the company as a singer in Japan, also participate in some Japanese TV program that have tied up with our company.

We also had invited 1 singer from each country every year to be a guest performer at HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL, an annual international festival that had been held for 2 consecutive year at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan.
Below are the detail requirement and conditions for this project, also benefits for the singers.

Requirement:
1. Singers of any nationality, age and gender are very welcome.
2. MUST HAVE a good Japanese pronunciation. It is not necessary to be fluent in Japanese language.
3. Record a demo with a backtrack that will be provided by the company and send to us. Home recording is acceptable.
*It doesn’t covered any vocal recording cost.
4. The demo should only be recorded in a RAW vocal track without any editing, mixing or any touch up.
5. Backtrack that can be use for the recording, only the one that will be provided by the company,
according to publishing rights that owns by the company.
6. A singer can choose as many song as they desired from the list of songs that provided by the company. Available for more than 1 song to cover.
The company select cover songs that were permitted by Musical publishers in advance

Benefits for singer:
1. The singer will have song release and publish worldwide with the company through various platform and compilation CD.
(except some countries like Mexico, India and Pakistan)
2. The singer will get the royalty sharing from the song publishing. Profit sharing scheme will be inform soon
after the singer participant is being approved. All participants, will be paid in the determined rate.
3. From all the singer participated in the project, company will have some singer being selected for a further project with the company.
4. Selected singer will have a chance to participate in some TV program show in Japan which have a tied up with this Anisong Project.
5. Selected singer that have the song being released, also have a chance to have a debut in Japanese music industry as a singer and an artist.
6. Selected singer also will have a chance to sing an ORIGINAL song for game or anime soundtrack that tied up
with the company and released it under the company record label.
7. Selected singer will have a chance to participate in HANEDA INTERNATIONAL ANIME MUSIC FESTIVAL in Tokyo, JAPAN as a special guest.

Conditions:
1. To release the song, the singer will have contract with the company.
2. Profit sharing scheme and system will be informed after the singer participation is confirmed.
3. The singer did not allow to directly sell the song that being released or use it for any commercial purpose.
4. However, the singer are allows to use the song that being release with the company,
for promotional purpose of the song or the singer with the company approvement.
*It prohibited the use of such unauthorized anime and manga in the advertising purposes.
5. The singer HAVE to give NOTICE and get PERMISSION from the company if the singer want to use the song for any promotional purpose.
6. The singer will have to maintain a certain artist image as the representation of the company project.
8. No expenses needed from the singer to be a participant of this project.
*This project is being announced for the 2nd term and we will accept application until August 15th 2016.
*For the first term, we already have some singer that released some songs and also being debuted by our company.
*Here are some info about the current singer debut in Japan.
Debut singer list:
http://www.haf.tokyo.jp/hafrecords_artist.html
http://www.haf.tokyo.jp/wannagoma_artist.html

For more detail info:
HAF website link: http://www.haf.tokyo.jp/
HAF Fb link: https://www.facebook.com/haf.tokyo.jp/
HAF Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/HAF_Tokyo

Send your application to:
http://www.haf.tokyo.jp/ap.html

Contact person:
Erie Morino
anisongproject@haf.tokyo.jp