Comments for citizensound http://www.citizensound.net music strategy for brands, brand strategy for music Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Ad Funded Model moving into the record label business by Marc Cohen http://www.citizensound.net/2007/06/27/ad-funded-model-moving-into-the-record-label-business/#comment-3 Marc Cohen Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:31:15 +0000 http://www.citizensound.net/citizensound2/?p=50#comment-3 Advertising support for recorded music will be a major revenue source for the music business. This space is covered at the Ad-Supported Music Central blog <a href="http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/</a> Advertising support for recorded music will be a major revenue source for the music business. This space is covered at the Ad-Supported Music Central blog http://ad-supported-music.blogspot.com/

]]> Comment on ECM: a label with a clear visual identity by Nick Watt http://www.citizensound.net/2007/01/05/ecm-a-label-with-a-clear-visual-identity/#comment-2 Nick Watt Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.citizensound.net/citizensound2/?p=17#comment-2 The Rune Grammafon label in Norway has continued the ECM design aesthetic across their catalogue of releases. Which is no surprise as label founder Rune Kristoffersen worked for Grappa, Norway’s oldest independent record company, as label manager for, you guessed it, ECM. One thing that gives the label's artwork a consistent look and feel is the work of sleeve design of Kim Hiorthøy. Like ECM the continuity between Rune Grammofon releases is a key part of the labels look and feel. Kim not only designs the sleeves for the Rune Grammofon label and the much underrated Norwegian group Motorpsycho, but he also releases records under his own name through the Smalltown Supersound label, home to the excellent Jaga Jazzist, Bjørn Torske and Lindstrøm. Here’s one of my favourite designs from Kim for Arve Henriksen's album Chiaroscuro.. <a href="http://www.runegrammofon.com/sitefiles/site10/shop/220_19.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.runegrammofon.com/sitefiles/site10/shop/220_19.jpg</a> And a great article on the label can be found at <a href="http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=1326" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=1326</a> The Rune Grammafon label in Norway has continued the ECM design aesthetic across their catalogue of releases. Which is no surprise as label founder Rune Kristoffersen worked for Grappa, Norway’s oldest independent record company, as label manager for, you guessed it, ECM.

One thing that gives the label’s artwork a consistent look and feel is the work of sleeve design of Kim Hiorthøy. Like ECM the continuity between Rune Grammofon releases is a key part of the labels look and feel. Kim not only designs the sleeves for the Rune Grammofon label and the much underrated Norwegian group Motorpsycho, but he also releases records under his own name through the Smalltown Supersound label, home to the excellent Jaga Jazzist, Bjørn Torske and Lindstrøm.

Here’s one of my favourite designs from Kim for Arve Henriksen’s album Chiaroscuro..
http://www.runegrammofon.com/sitefiles/site10/shop/220_19.jpg

And a great article on the label can be found at http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/article.php?article=1326

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