This week I got my new batch of CD covers in their raw state direct from the printers. I only print a few copies off at a time, but the results are really good.
“Plugged in Dixon” Electronic sampled based compositions. The CD cover design is A.I. generated imagery. The idea is from Wendy Carlos’s 1969 “Switched on Bach” LP when she plays Bach with a modular Synthesizer. I took this idea and turned a 1733 Northumbrian folk/baroque notation compilation and played it with my semi-modular synths.
“Sackpipa” This cover was done for my Swedish friend and bagpipe maker Bors Anders Ohman. I have visited Anders for many years and he has written many tunes for the Sackpipa, in a book format. I have recorded these tunes and made them into a CD for him. It is a way of saying thanks to him, and to celebrate the melodies that he has written.
“One Tracked Mind” is the new CD, new original recordings from the BusinessControlled repertoire. The Cover design is taken from my photos from Glasgow/UK and a walk in the Swedish woods. The Glasgow image is a mural on the side of a large building in the Centre of Glasgow.
“One Tracked Mind / The Hatchery” This is the cassette version of the above CD. Same tracks, but the cover design is done using the “Maltese Cross” design. The imagery is A.I. produced. The cover folds in on itself producing the cover for the cassette.
“Strangled Growth” is a new CD design with more info than on the previous version. The recording is the same as the cassette version, which is longer with more tracks to fill out the 90 minutes. The CD version was reduced in length so it could fit onto 1 CD. This new version is a double CD, and has the original compositions in their original length. The recording was done on the Axoloti Core and the cover gives a brief introduction to the synth.
The “Sackpipa” CD and the “Plugged in Dixon” CD, are the 2 CDs that come under the name of “ethnopiper”, the rest are under BusinessControlled.
Ethnopiper & BusinessControlled 