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music has always been a big influence on my life,
so it comes as no surprise that you'll find me
creating album art, usually for live bootlegs that
never had art. If it has something to do with a
band and art, let me create the visual experience
to perfectly compliment your audio expertise.
Recently, in February 2006 I took a trip out of town with a close friend. The next two examples are art for two of the sets of discs I burned for that weekend.
The "mixodiscobiscuits" random assortment of live tracks from my collection features an outer space theme.
And the other set of discs from the recent trip:
This disc features some Grateful Dead artwork as the background from the May 11th 1972 show in Rotterdam, NL from my collection.
The
first piece of album art I created was for a bootleg
of a live Tool show.
The
bootleg was from Tool's 2002 tour promoting their
"Lateralus" album, which featured artwork by the
talented visionary artist Alex
Grey. I felt that
the bootleg from the tour featuring a majority
of songs from that particular album should resemble
the album itself. This was to ensure any fans
could easily identify that this was definitely
a Tool album, and more than likely would realize
that it had something to do with the actual "Lateralus"
album.
There
were 2 discs for this particular show, so the second
disc is a mirror image of the first disc, but with
a completely different color hue to set it apart
from the first disc, while keeping it a part of
the complete show.
The
next example of art was also created by another
artist, unknown to me, around the early 1970's
for the Pink Floyd live bootleg titled "Rhapsody
in Pink".
The
image, again, was borrowed from the original material
that came with the bootleg I received, and is not
the full size original, just a small portion of
the original which I cropped to fit the CD as needed.
Track names and everything else were added after
the image was in place in order to match the text
color with the image as well as properly align
everything.
This
next example is for a bootleg of the Disco Biscuits
2005 Camp Bisco in Van Etten, NY. Photo by Adam
Foley.
Naturally,
I felt that in order to properly represent that
evening of music visually, I needed an
actual photograph of the band on stage that same
evening. Normally I would have produced the photograph
myself, however, I was actually "taking" a
vacation on this particular vacation. I'd
like to credit and thank Adam Foley for the excellent
photograph used in this example.
My
thanks again to Alex Grey, Adam Foley, and to the
unknown artist who contributed to the Pink Floyd
"Rhapsody" bootleg art. More album art, including
some which feature my work exclusively on the entire
cd, are on the way very soon.
At
the immediate moment, however, this concludes the
cd and album art gallery. Thank you for your interest,
and again, if you are in need of imagery that properly
represents the experience of your audio expertise,
allow me to seamlessly integrate your custom solution
and your work will be seen faster, getting it heard
faster.
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