Al Gomes - the owner of Big Noise LLC - is a complete liar. The contract that was sent to me is the first clue that this company is a complete scam. It promises nothing and asks for $1400 so that they can shop your music to "up to 40 entertainment industry professionals." Who are these industry professionals? No one knows. They could be anyone. Hell, they could be me.
Also, they meet with a music focus group that consists of entertainment professionals and regular fans. When this was done, what they came up with was my best song was one that can't be sold or used for anything but performance because it has a sample in it from another song that I don't have the rights to. It was sent in simply because it was some work I had done so they could hear it. If there was a bunch of entertainment professionals in this focus group - they would have known that would be a problem. Al also asked for all new mixes of my songs. That's funny - considering when he claimed he listened to my music - they were all great and I absolutely needed to be part of this music industry.
The company also feels the need to reinforce the fact that they can get you on the grammy ballot. For independent musicians who are trying to their music shopped to labels, management companies, and publishing companies - who cares about the grammys?
Lastly, the contract has no out clause. All contracts that are legit have out clauses. And legit contracts also are usually percentage based because otherwise - the party accepting monetary payments has nothing to lose if they don't do their job.
To all my fellow independent artists out there - don't fall for it. Don't get involved. At all.
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