Soundway // Konkoma
Cover design & logotype. Read about the band and the release.
Soundway // Batida
Album artwork direction and design for new Soundway signing Batida. From the Soundway site: Batida is ‘the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese DJ Mpula aka Pedro Coquenão. Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music … What originally started out as a radio show designed to promote new African music [...]
Soundway // The Original Sound of Cumbia
Art direction/illustrations for compilation of cumbia 78s and 45s.
Soundway Records // Dancing Time
Poster for upcoming party in Hackney, London for Soundway Records.
Soundway // Special Edition Singles
Two illustrations as part of an upcoming special edition 7″ single series on Soundway. The above is for Andre Tanker’s ‘River Come Down’, one of the two tracks by the Trinidadian presented on the 7. The other (below) is for a 3 x 45 set of music from Lucho Bermúdez y Su Orquesta, who also [...]
Soundway // Cartagena!
Sleeve artwork for this (absolutely rapturous) compilation of big band dance music from 60s Colombia. More on the Soundway website.
Soundway // The Sound of Siam
Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz and Molam from Thailand 1964 -1975 Outer sleeve artwork and design. Read more about this release on the Soundway site. The artwork is also available as limited edition screen prints, and on tee shirts, exquisitely printed by the brilliant I Dress Myself – shipping early December 2010. Click the images below [...]
Soundway // Ghana Special
Design and layout for this 2xCD hardback book & 5xLP box set. Custom Letraset type and hand-drawn page decorations. Ghana Special is the sister release to Nigeria Special, and follow-on from the trailblazing Ghana Soundz releases. The CDs are cased in a 44-page hardback book, while the LP box set includes a 12-page 10″ booklet [...]
Soundway Records Website
Design and build. The Soundway site is WordPress-driven, built so that all content is managed by the client through the WordPress admin. It has been constructed so that the label have complete control over all sections of the site. Features include a fully customisable front page, Catalogue management, podcast/radio section, gallery page, and events notice [...]
Soundway // Tumbélé!
Art direction for this CD/double LP release of music from the French Caribbean in the Biguine, Bomba, Calypso, Gwo-ka, Meringue, Plena, Guaguanco and (of course) Tumbélé styles. Cover design using paper collage. Out now on Soundway Records.