Études (2015) by Yair Elazar Glotman.
The work section of this website is still lacking the addition of some recent commissions but I have managed this week to get the albums section up to date. If I don’t talk about my work in the music world very much that’s because it’s been scaled down in recent years. I am still working regularly for the Subtext label, however, and the releases shown here are all the recent designs bar the latest one which will be out in February.
Almost all my work for Subtext involves preparing artwork I’ve been sent, and applying the relevant text information (or “label copy” as the big record companies prefer to call it). That’s generally easy work but the minimal style of Subtext means that some designs go through several iterations before everyone is happy with the results. The Signal album by Emptyset required the careful cropping and adjusting of James Ginzburg’s photos to get something that sat well in the square of the album sleeve. Almost all the artwork here was selected by the artists; if it wasn’t then it was prepared with their approval. The individual web pages show the full layouts, and also have all the necessary artwork credits.
As to the audio content, Subtext releases operate in the nebulous intersection between noise, drones, sound design and ambient music. The albums by Paul Jebanasam and FIS were featured this month on a list of the Top 30 Drone Records of 2016. See the label’s Soundcloud page for samples.
I’ll be posting another work update—if I get round to it!—next week.
Emptyset (2015 reissue) by Emptyset.
Signal (2015) by Emptyset.
Continuum (2016) by Paul Jebanasam.
Frenzy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2016) by Cevdet Erek.
Barotrauma (2016) by Eric Holm.
From Patterns To Details (2016) by FIS.
Blessed Initiative (2016) by Blessed Initiative.