I had a pleasure to design an album for a polish band Kirszenbaum. SIĘ was released on Friday 22th January 2021.
"Kirszenbaum is Wyspiański on mephedrone. The Krakow duo revive the post-folk ruins, give them fresh directions and throw them straight onto loopers, juxtaposing Tom Waits and Junip with a Slavic twist. Zola shouts klezmer, Henry Miller dances with the Mummies, and the result is a melancholic intertextual carousel. Kierkegaard wrote of them: It’s probably jazz. Nothing could be further from the truth. Kirszenbaum is a joint venture of Kacper Szpyrka and Jakub Wiśniewski."
Kirszenbaum wanted a simple design with strong illustrations. To capture an atmosphere of some sort of secret organisation. A lot of freedom was given to me during creative process. From our conversations, texts and listening to their music I had a vision of pilgrim dog. The dog has a moonshine carboy on it's back (which was reference to one of their songs from previous album). Also I wanted to capture mice, as they were mentioned in one of the songs from SIĘ.
Those animals were the theme for this album.
Those animals were the theme for this album.
Photos by Paweł Ponichtera
