Perfect Bedfellows
DIY culture is throwing up some interested new record labels, that are more than just labels, but are building on the relationship with the visual arts. Home Tapes, based in Portland, Oregon is home to a group of bands and musicians such as left field Hip-Hop stars CYNE and the excellent Slaraffenland, and a bunch...
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Sensory Marketing: A musician’s approach
Be it Dubai or Mumbai, London or Lisbon, citizensound is excited to find that more and more brands are investing in the power of the senses as part of the consumer experience. The old one dimensional approach to sensory marketing is moving out of the mainstream into the background, being replaced by strategies that consider...
Georgia On My Mind…
Minimalist American artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted “Blue and Green Music” in 1919. We should have got her in to do our branding… “Making your unknown known is the important thing”
It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it!
I came across a great blog called Little Hits last night. Each week or so they post up a favourite track from often long forgotten records, the majority being from the punk and post punk era. As the site’s owners are based in the US it’s quite amazing how many obscure British punk and indie...
Could better packaging increase music download sales?
Let's face it; few music fans have ever preferred the CD booklet to the album sleeve. With CD sales continuing to drop, and downloads nowhere near replacing the shortfall in sales and revenues, could making the downloads more attractive to music fans help boost sales? Fans have always wanted something special. Limited edition sleeves, picture...
More great Album Cover art
Here is Meek Warrior the album from Akron/Family. Great visual. Those people at young gods records sure know something about strong visuals in their album covers. Have a look here
Who said great album covers are a thing of the past?
Just another excuse to show the great artwork of equally great music from Type records…
Sound and Vision
So I have been chatting with my online friends about great album covers. We were thinking of the ones where the visual impact of the album cover fused closely with the sound inside the album. Integrated Communication if you wish… Here are one example: Bim Sherman – Miracle. A legendary reggae singer. This album fused...
ECM: a label with a clear visual identity
So much beautiful music from the ECM label over the last 27 years. Jan Garbarek a favourite along with Keith Jarrett, Jack De Johnette, Carla Bley and so many others. However, my favourite ECM album of all time is Return to Forever by Return to Forever. Chick...
Fight of the Album Covers
I came across this from two sources, one of which was Russell. Very entertaining…
Fania is back
What Blue Note is to Jazz, Fania is to Salsa.. The back catalogue is being re-released by those lovely people at emusica/v2 for our listening pleasure, so I am a happy man. Yet it is also going to be great to feast my eyes on the blissful album cover art of Izzy Sanabria again. ....