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Sunset Recordings Has Signed Agreement with CBuJ Entertain

Independent record label Sunset and renowned Nashville based CBuJ Entertainment have signed an exclusive distribution deal for video and audio recordings from the Sunset Records Label Group catalog.

Based in Nashville, CBuJ is known for distributing hit music all over the world with top recording artists as the Kentucky Headhunters, Joe Ely, Marc Chestnut, the Jazz Crusaders, Patsy Cline, It's A Beautiful Day, Buckethead and more. Sunset's catalog will add its great mix of new recordings along with its special markets titles realized by the label over the last three years.

Sunset has been expanding its distribution all year. "I was closing our manufacturing deal with Morris Beegle (P&D/Hapi-Skratch) and he mentioned that he worked with John Burns (President of CBuJ). I agreed to terms that day, " says Don Lichterman, the head of Sunset. "You cannot find better sales people in our industry, " Lichterman says about CBuJ's staff. CBuJ accounts for the orders and sales of hundreds of millions of records with 125 years of combined major-record label and worldwide music distribution experience to offer Sunset.

CBuJ was originally started to provide distribution to independent labels representing various music genres. Sunset Records is expected to release new projects every month over the next year that include RichTaste, Kapital A in the 4th quarter, and Lichterman also says to expect more "special markets, licensed material, Home Videos titles and even some new artists to be released in the last quarter this year." Sunset's expansion this year includes all of the Sunset's manufacturing and distribution.

Sunset's upcoming releases by Kapital A and Richtaste already have initial orders at retail, and Kapital A created the Theme Song for the American Indoor Football Association (AIFA). Richtaste will officially release their first single, "Good Days Are Gone, " to radio this week. The album is scheduled for release on September 23. Kapital A is a releasing Why Not on November 4th with the AIFA Theme Song used as a promotion with the new CD. And, currently, The New Surreal's "We Got Time" is all over Hot AC Radio and the song is featured on CMJ's web site this month. The entire Sunset records label group is named sixty-eight (68) times on the initial 51st Grammy Nominations Ballot. The label now boasts to having sixty two (62) titles in stores all over the world.

About Sunset Recordings, Inc
Sunset is a privately owned Don Lichterman Company. Sunset is one of the leading independent record labels and entertainment companies in the world. The Sunset Group of Entertainment Companies, and its global operation, acquire, develop, and distribute major music recording artists, home visual entertainment products, online-digital entertainment technologies and music and filmed entertainment worldwide. Sunset's four major divisions are the Sunset Distributed Label Group, the Sunset Strategic Marketing and Licensing Division, the Radio Sunset Network and the Sunset Filmed Entertainment Division.



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