Connected Rights is a specialist music rights management and advisory company. We assist select clients with managing international performance rights and related matters. We also work with a range of music industry organisations to provide support and input to various initiatives.
About
Daryl Bamonte
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Daryl Bamonte worked for Depeche Mode in multiple roles between 1980 and 1995, including touring keyboardist in 1994. He worked with The Cure from 1995 until 2005, which included Executive Producer on ‘The Cure’ album and the ‘Trilogy’ DVD, and formed Bamonte Artist Management during this time.
In 2014 he became the Managing Director of Schubert Music UK and the head of the Atlantic Curve label. He became active as a speaker at international music conferences and formed his new company, Archangelo Music, in 2022. This includes two labels, Archangelo Recordings and Bamala Newtown, as well as Archangelo Songs, which is sub-published worldwide by BMG.
Additionally, Daryl is an Ambassador for the Europe in Synch organisation, a consultant for Schubert Music Europe and a co-founder of Connected Rights, a neighbouring rights management company. He is also the keyboard player in Norwegian post-punk band Permafrost and a member of experimental electronic band Hence.
Charlie Phillips
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Charlie Phillips is a qualified solicitor and a globally recognised expert in music rights management, with over two decades of experience spanning international licensing, rights & data optimisation, and music industry advocacy.
Charlie spent a decade representing the independent music sector, running the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), and legal/business affairs for the Association of Independent Music (AIM), and various roles at IFPI.
Notable successes in collective licensing include securing multiple millions of dollars for the world’s leading independent labels through a long-term, sector-wide rights optimisation initiative.
This work led to Charlie conceiving the RDx data exchange platform for international collective licensing organisations. Charlie developed and launched RDx together with IFPI, PPL and other stakeholders. RDx is now used by many CMOs, transforming how they handle neighbouring rights data and significantly improving efficiency and transparency in royalty distributions.
Charlie has worked extensively with recording artists, ensuring their rights are accurately and comprehensively represented across key territories, helping them achieve substantial revenue improvements.
His expertise in rights management, coupled with a hands-on approach to resolving repertoire conflicts and optimising metadata, combines with a commitment to helping rights holders understand their options and improve their position in an increasingly complex global music ecosystem.
Charlie started his career as a recording studio engineer, working on projects such as the location recording of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ albums. He went on to hold senior positions at Capital Radio and Napster before qualifying as a solicitor in 2009.