I'm Fred Mollin.
Welcome to this website, which is still under construction. It’s under construction because we are at the very beginning of a record label I’ve started with my business partner in this endeavor, Leigh Shockey.
Melody Place is going to be a record company that is small, but powerful. I am going to be passionately involved in every part of the company as president, and we will be dedicated to keeping the album art form alive.
It’s going to be a legacy artist album label. We are going to sign great artists who’ve made wonderfully important music for years, and now may be looking for another company to do their next masterpiece with. We’re not going to be searching for new artists to break. We’ll let the other labels do that.
I’m enormously realistic about how to make this company work, and as a musician/arranger/producer, my calling has always been to shepherd artists and bring important music into the world.
We want to celebrate the artists who have an illustrious history with still more important projects to do.
The plan is to do no more than three albums a year by three well known separate artists or groups. This will allow us to have the time, creative energies, as well as resources to market and license these projects all over the world.
My life as a freelance record producer and music arranger will continue, but I am taking the role of president of this record label very seriously and it will be my first priority. I want to make sure that Melody Place becomes synonymous with great music and becomes a haven for brilliant artists. I respect the album as an art form and believe the album should not disappear anymore than books or movies should.
I know that if labels like Melody Place don’t exist, there will be less important music available to the audience that still wants to listen and embrace the magic and power of great musical works.
In the coming months the website will be changing and you’ll hear about our signings of wonderful artists and new projects.
We have a slogan for Melody Place, so from now on when you think about the label, you’ll also think about a place “where there is music". That’s what we hope to be. We want to be that destination.
I hope you'll come back soon.
Sincerely,
f
