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23/05/2025

Amica Records is proud to announce the release of ’s cathartic ‘Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt’ 🎉 the album is out now on all streaming platforms as well available to order direct from Jon on CD or LP on
This wondrous album takes the listener gently by the hand, and guides them through a nostalgic yearning for home, brought to life by an ensemble of leading New York early music and jazz artists.
It is, in many ways, a tone poem evoking images of the ocean: reflecting Jon’s childhood on Victoria’s surf coast and fear and beauty found in the ocean.
We urge you to play this album in full and experience Jon’s weaving of renaissance counterpoint with jazz improvisation. It is a landmark and inimitable record, but most importantly to us, it is kind and beautiful music.
Link in bio to enjoy or hear to https://ampl.ink/cantata1
You can also tune into The Music Show this weekend on to hear fellow composer Andrew Ford and Jon discuss the creation of this unique album.

Credits:
Jonathon Crompton - composition, alto saxophone  - electric guitar  & Rachel Mikol - soprano   & Kate Goddard - violin .rowe - viola Maria Jeffers- cello
Recorded/mixed/mastered by at , Brooklyn, NY, March 2024  Cover design by Jonathon Crompton Calligraphy by .one
Text - selected stanzas of Psalm 18

14/05/2025

Want to get a sense of what listening to ’s Cantata No. 1 feels like in full? Check out the beautiful review by in last weekend’s - with thanks to 🙏
Link in bio to read the full review.
Jon’s extraordinary album is released to the world on Friday next week, and the final movement is out now for your listening pleasure!

08/05/2025

Thank you .records for sending us some excellent merch all the way from Canada, and congrats to Nic, Évo and on the launch of ! .records is honoured to be a part of your world 💗
After I took this photo I put the hat in my backpack, and for the first time in my life, my banana got squished in there and now it’s a kind of uniquely Aussie fruit x Canadian neoclassical collab hat 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’m going to interpret this as being a good luck sign, like when a bird poops on you.
I was going to wash it, but has decided to wear it as is. So the good luck charm remains. I’d like my hat back soon tho.
Where did I end up with this post? I digress. Again. Congrats to all!!
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23/04/2025

’s single ‘Movement 3’ is released this Friday, and a huge thanks to for putting this release into beautiful words, and in particular capturing that feeling of the ocean, which inspired the music at the deepest level.
We can’t wait to share the single with you- in the meantime, this is a beautiful read and definitely hits US right in the feels! 🐨 🌊

Link in bio or head to https://fortemag.com.au/from-surf-coast-to-soundwaves-aussie-saxophonist-jonathon-crompton-drops-deeply-personal-debut-cantata/
📷 #2 by Visit Victoria

14/04/2025

is an Australian composer, alto saxophonist and educator navigating an unchartered musical space between past and present. Now residing in Brooklyn, Crompton’s work blends lyrical jazz improvisation, contemporary classical composition, and Renaissance counterpoint. By challenging the boundaries and traditions of genre, Crompton has cultivated a singular musical voice.
Bringing together some of New York’s leading jazz and early music artists in his works, Crompton creates uniquely beautiful, spiritual, and innovative chamber music.
We are thrilled to share Jon’s new album ‘Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt’ with you in May - stay tuned for a beautiful single coming out NEXT WEEK, on April 25!
📷 Desmond White

02/04/2025

Guitarists Matt Withers & Callum Henshaw received a beautiful review of Here & Now, written by Philip Pogson last year, for The Music Trust’s Loudmouth E-Zine.
Philip highlights the well-curated selection of compositions on the album, its soothing and melodic nature - ‘a recording to play and enjoy…’ Over here at Amica HQ we tend to agree! You can hear Here & Now at the link in our bio.

Read the full review here https://musictrust.com.au/loudmouth/author/philip-pogson/

24/03/2025

Amica Records is thrilled to announce a forthcoming album release by New York-based composer/saxophonist !

‘Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt’ is a staggeringly beautiful album - recorded with an ensemble of leading artists from New York’s jazz and early music scenes, including Rachel Mikol and a string quartet.

It brings together Jon’s intimate knowledge of Renaissance counterpoint with jazz improvisation, impressionism and ambient effects. The album reflects upon Jon’s childhood on the Australian Surf Coast as an expat yearning for home in the era of closer borders. It is a powerful listen, especially knowing the expat experience of the US is fraught with many big feelings once more.

The album will be released digitally by Amica on 23 May, with a single, Movement 3, released on April 25. Jon will also have some vinyl and CDs for sale.

We’re grateful to be sharing in this journey releasing such incredible music to the world 🙌
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07/01/2025

Matt Withers & Callum Henshaw’s exquisite new album Here & Now, released on Amica Records in 2024, is this week’s Feature Album on ABC Classic. Huge thanks to Classic for their support of Amica this year, and congrats to and once again on their beautiful album.

You can listen to the album on all streaming services via the link in our bio, or purchase a copy on CD direct from the artists.

📷 Jimmy Walsh, painting by Sue Needham

14/11/2024

’s ninth album Forever Changed is released tomorrow on CD, 12” vinyl and digitally on .records 🎉 We can’t wait to share this ethereal layered lullaby album with you!
You can pre-order a signed copy for a few more hours via www.natbartsch.com/shop or on
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11/11/2024

The suite of skills an artist, producer or engineer requires in the music industry is wide-ranging, ever-changing, and well beyond what we learned at music school (if we went to one). And it’s reasonable to not want to enrol in an entire audio production degree just to know how to put mics on your piano correctly, or a marketing course just to figure out how to make some good social media posts.

*But* do you have the patience to trawl gear forums or scroll through the youtuber rambling to learn what you need to learn? 🥴 we sure don’t…

Here at Amica Familia we can help you learn specific skills. Such as home recording techniques, bio and grant writing, arranging and overdubs, social media skills, grant writing, mixing & mastering, learning new gear, production concepts and plug ins… you can learn about our mentoring at www.amicarecords.com/familia

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09/11/2024

Sometimes you are so far down the rabbit hole with your project, and you have no idea whether you’ve just created the best record of your career or completely burnt the toast 😬 (it happens)
We can have a listen with fresh ears and help you get perspective. We can review your mixes, EQ and compression settings, automation, spectral audio analysis, overdub arrangements and effects, track order, listening for glitches and more

is one of Australia’s premier recording and mix engineers, creating over 100 albums across 25 years in the industry. He is highly sought after in classical, jazz and alternative genres in particular, and has worked regularly with artists including and
has released and/or produced 10 albums as an artist, and is known for her hawk-ears that annoyingly find that *tiny* bit of distortion at 2:32 😛

You can learn more at www.amicarecords.com/familia

27/10/2024

Great to see featured in 's Resonate Magazine, discussing his recent release Here & Now, with fellow guitarist .

Matt says “I feel very privileged, with Callum, to be the first artists other than Nat with her own music, to be released on her growing label. Amica Records seemed like the perfect fit for this album as we also had a loose theme of 'beauty and calm' when selecting and arranging the program. 'Kind' music for me is the music that helps calm our household the past few years, which has my young son of 4 running wild through our lives. Music that soothes, heals and reflects certainly gives me pleasure at this stage in my life.”

You can listen to Here & Now on all streaming services, or purchase a CD direct from the artists.

ID: black and white photo of Callum and Matt with their guitars, with text overlay that states quote mentioned in caption. Slide 2 features a second quote that states “Working with Nat on the release has been so refreshing, giving hope for the Australian music scene. It is incredible to see such passion, commitment and care taken with this release. I can't wait to see how Amica Records grows into the future and to hear much more kind music emerge because of Nat's dedication.”

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