Latest News
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Licensing * Best Of Chango Spasiuk
We have good news for all fans of Chamamé music's "guardian angel" Chango Spasiuk: UK label Demon Music Group has selected Piranha artist Chango Spasiuk to do a "Best Of" double CD, including 8 out ...
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Sister Fa back from Senegal * Tour in Germany
Our Senegalese superwoman is back from a successful tour through her home country. But instead of taking a rest, she's simply taken a deep breath and kept on marching: From next week on Sister Fa & ... -
Piranha on a Screen Near You * Licensing Successes
Spot the Klezmatics in a wedding crowd on "Sex and the City", listen up for Darko Rundek in a clip from the German prime time series "Kommisar Stollberg", hum along with "Mama" (Bantu ft. Ayuba) in a ... -
Sister Fa in Senegal * "Education sans excision" Tour 30.01.-12.02.10
Although forbidden by law, Female Genital Cutting is still a common practice in several Senegalese communities. Sister Fa is on a mission to change this situation, bringing support, information and ... -
Piranhas Out & About * International Music Business
2010 has just begun and the staffers at Piranha World Headquarters are busy jetting about on international music business: Production & Communication Director Jennifer Dautermann dons her C3 Festival ... -
Bye 2009 * Hello 2010
That's it. The working year 2009 is officially over for the Piranha team. It has been an exciting and productive year but we all need to refresh our powers for the new one, so the office will be ... -
Praktikumsausschreibung * Student/in gesucht
We're making a little exception from the rule today: news in German. Piranha is looking for a trainee.PRAKTIKUMSAUSSCHREIBUNGPiranha Musik & IT, Label und Anbieter von Online-Services für Musik aus ... -
Piranha Tops in World Music Charts Europe * 2009 Top of the Year List
'Tis the season for reviewing the passing year. This of course includes all kinds of "Best of 2009" lists. We might not have made the Best Dressed (nor, for that matter, the Worst Dressed), but the ... -
Sister Fa shines at UN Concert in NYC * review and footage
Piranha Towers residents were delighted to hear this rave review of Sister Fa's performance at the United Nations in New York City"In a star-studded evening, which included standout performances by ... -
We're your pushermen * BalkanBeats out now!
It was 1990 when Robert Soko left his home town Zenica in Bosnia. After travelling around a bit, he ended up in Berlin. The wall had just fallen, everything seemed possible… 3 years later the first ... -
United Nations Day Concert: Tribute to Peacekeeping * Sister Fa in NYC
On 23rd October, Musical artists from around the world will unite to pay tribute to UN peacekeepers who serve some of the most victimized populations in the most dangerous places on earth. Using ... -
Balkan brass in Berlin * Boban & Marko Markovic live with Miss Platnum
The Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar blew through Berlin recently, a rare visit to the German capital which was part of their whirlwind "Devla" album release tour. We took the opportunity to snap a ... -
Darko Strikes Again * PDS Live Album Out Now
"This album made me fervently wish I'd been at this concert, while simultaneously making me grateful that I at least had this recording of it. So thanks, you lovely people, for reminding me of what ... -
Education without Mutilation
Thanks to Waris Dirie the awareness for female genital cutting has risen, but she isn't the only one fighting against this cruel tradition. Sister Fa also belongs to those brave women and, being a ... -
New from Boban i Marko Markovic * Devla
On the front lines of Piranha's incoming Balkan invasion, the Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar make a full frontal assault with their brand new album "Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven", ... -
Berlin Battle of the Bands * Creole World Music from Germany
The second edition of "Creole - World Music from Germany" is being held in Berlin at Huxleys Neue Welt on September 24th-27th. "Creole" is unique in being Germany's only national competition for the ... -
Go North, Piranha! * New Canadian Distributor
We've got a new partner in Canada, SRI. Since 1980, SRI Canada has been providing distribution, promotion and marketing services for some of the world's finest independent labels. SRI President Greg ... -
Piranha in Portugal * New Distributor
We are happy to announce that we've closed the deal with our new distributor in Portugal: Leve Music Entertainment is a music, video and merchandising distribution company based in Sintra/Lisbon, ... -
Piranha's Soundtripping Continues * New Releases, New Honor
Piranha's staff were delighted to learn that our release "Soundrip Switzerland" was singled out for distinction by Bayern2's "MusikFavorit". They seemed to find our selection of alpine-flavored ... -
Piranha Nu Generation * popdeurope Grande Finale Watcha Clan & Sister Fa
As part of the Berlin Music Commission's Summer-of-Berlin campaign we're proud to present Piranha's Nu Generation at the Grande Finale of popdeurope 2009. On Friday, 21. August at the Arena Glashaus, ... -
Three is the magic number * Piranha prepares the next generation
Since February 2008 Piranha has embraced the opportunity to give emerging professionals a hands-on apprenticeship in the music business. Mareike Hartmann, assistant to Bettina Schasse de Araujo, was ... -
Piranha in Copenhagen * Watcha Clan is Womex 09 Showcase
We are extremely happy to announce Watcha Clans participation in this years Womex Showcases. Our musical nomads definitely know how to rock a crowd. Now they will get the chance at Womex 09 to prove ... -
Balkan Dream Team in Berlin * Goran Bregovic, Shantel & Robert Soko
We're announcing it here with a (virtual) blasting trumpet fanfare, Mr. Balkan Beats himself, Robert Soko, joins the illustrious Goran Bregovic and his Wedding & Funeral Band with Shantel & Bucovina ... -
New Summer Grooves * [dunkelbunt] Reinterprets Piranha
Vienna-based globetrotter [dunkelbunt] has dedicated his unique blending-skills to choice tidbits from PIRANHA's richly varied catalog to create a groovy summer soundtrack of dancehall and electro, ...
