A Musicians View

Artwork

When Jonas (Manual), Jess (of North Shore collaboration and Causa Sui), Rasmus (Aerosol) & and myself (Syntaks) started making music together way back in 1994, we quickly became aware of the problem of recording in a studio, so at the end of the decade, we stopped trying to find a producer that could match our musical output, and started recording everything ourselves. At first on simple 2-track devices and eventually Jonas bought a multitrack harddisc recorder, on which we recorded sketches for Limp: Orion (and eventually the delayed album), as well as the Manual albums Until Tomorrow, Ascend, Isares EP and parts of Golden Sun. So we took on the task of learning production and studiotechnique in our small rehearsalroom, and has been expanding that knowledge ever since.

The same goes for the artwork below - we simply didn’t think that what most designers were doing sufficiently matched our output. The artwork had to match the content, so we had to learn how to do it ourselves. Most designers use a visual style, that focus on the design itself instead of the music - we try to make artwork that doesn’t divert or distort the textures, sound and feeling of the music, but instead expand what’s already there.

The starting point is always layered images and textures - however the collage is meant as a complete impression, not just abrupt parts splashed together - like the musical output, everything flows together to one general impression. It’s calm zen instead of taped together avantgarde. Colours and feeling rather than fancy graphics and forms. Emotion before the schematic construct.

Source: Limp.dk