Private client. Sleeve design, packaging design and art direction.
Completed 2014.
The artwork for this noise/ambient compilation is inspired by vintage hardcover books...
The texture of an actual vintage book was used to achieve the look...
And even the tracklisting is arranged like chapters in a book...
The client wanted something that would be at odds (a book, which is obviously a vehicle for clearly conveying ideas) with the unintelligibility of the noise music contained within...
The incongruity is furthered by the aged look, given that noise music is a relatively new phenomenon...
Of course, the compilation also has a nod to what is arguably the genesis of noise music: Lou Reed's 1975 LP Metal Machine Music, which almost killed his career.
