SOUTH INDIES TEXT & MUSIC PUBLISHING
South Indies began in the 1980s as a specialist NZ music and books mail order company.
Today, it handles and protects songs & texts, independently or in partnership with other small presses and labels.
South Indies has released poems for publication and a 20th anniversary edition of a novel. It has freed up limited period usage of existing material for Grapefruit (U.S.A.), Sophomore Lounge (U.S.A.), Flying Nun (N.Z.), Partizanska Knjiga (Serbia), Thokhei Tapes (Hamburg) and others. It has partnered to release strictly limited runs of vinyl albums with Zelle Records (Austria) and Powertool Records (Auckland, NZ), notably Cut (LP) by Bilders (Direen, Derek Champion and many Dunedin guests) and the LP Chrysanthemum Storm. [[ More info ]]. It has partnered to release 100 Years of Darkness with Grapefruit. It has released exclusive, limited rights to Grapefruit and Sophomore Lounge for material on the two 2024 Bilders albums (one vinyl LP, and one cassette of mixed material) being released in 2024.
In NZ, vinyl may be purchased from any of the partners overseas. In N.Z. you can pre-order the new LP (U.S. vinyl, 33rpm) and cassette (45mins) from exclusive NZ source Flying Out, 80 Pitt Street, Auckland 1010 (texts and music, online order). Other outlets hold earlier material: Relics (vinyl) in Dunedin, or The Open Book (texts), 201 Ponsonby Road, Auckland 1011 (online), Volume Book Store, Scorpio Books and UBS Otago. In USA, each label has its dedicated networks for distribution.
If you want definitive lyrics or wish to release or translate songs or writings, or perhaps you are wanting to inquire about film rights to a novel ... just contact us.
