Four New Labels to Be Added to the Naxos of America Distribution Family in April

FRANKLIN, TN--(Marketwire - Apr 12, 2011) - On April 26, Naxos of America will officially launch distribution of Paladino Music, Bee Jazz, 100 Beats and Bar De Lune in North America.

Founded in February 2009, Paladino Music is a record label, music consulting agency and sheet music publisher. The company focuses its efforts on production management and service for the classical music industry, ranging from creating festival and concert concepts, public relations and copyright consulting and the recording projects that are found on the Paladino label.

Bee Jazz is an indie french jazz label based in Paris. Created in 2003, the label has signed artists such as Boulou & Elios Ferre, Guillaume de Chassy & Daniel Yvinec, Stéphane Spira, Gabriel Zufferey, Jean-Philippe Muvien, LEBOCAL, Francois Jeanneau, Christophe Wallemme, Daniel Humair, Manu Codjia, Jérome Sabbagh, Celea/Couturier/Humair, Daniel Yvinec, Humair/Kühn/Malaby, Orchestre national de Jazz Daniel Yvinec, Nelson Veras, Issam Krimi, Jozef Dumoulin, and Karen Lano.

100 Beats brings together the most popular grooves from around the world, as the sounds of Asia, Africa and South America merge with the mellow beats of present-day culture. Each set includes 100 tracks divided into lounge, chill, café, and groove music over 4 CDs.

Bar De Lune brings east and west together in a musically rich melting pot. Every 3 CD set concentrates on one genre from around the globe including the sounds of Africa, beats of the Latin world and the haunting melodies of Asia.

Headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, Naxos of America is the #1 independent classical music distributor in the U.S. Specializing in state-of-the-art distribution, marketing and promotion, Naxos of America distributes nearly 20,000 SKUs to traditional brick and mortar retail, as well as offering a comprehensive suite of services tailored to consumer direct fulfillment. Naxos of America is also the largest digital distributor of independent classical music, supplying a catalog of over 25,000 albums to hundreds of digital download and mobile outlets worldwide. Naxos of America offers marketing, e-marketing, publicity, e-publicity, physical and digital e-commerce services, licensing opportunities, streaming services, sales and customer service for all new releases and active catalog titles of Naxos Records and more than 100 distributed labels.