Projeto pessoal de design: criar bandas e a capa de um dos seus discos.
Personal design project: create bands and the cover for one of their albums.

Jeremy Burke | "Jemery" | 1985

Jeremy Burke is an American folk musician from New York City. Even though he has a small discography of three albums, he has collaborated with many of his colleague's albums he met at music school. "Jemery" is his first and most well-known album.

 

When Jeremy was on tour, he discussed his influences for a local radio station at Wilmington, NC. "I bought Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" because it was the ugliest cover I've seen at the store, but I was impressed. I realized you don't need much to make beautiful music, just a guitar and maybe a voice."

 

Many years later, Jeremy decided to reveal the story behind the album's name typo: "My friend from middle school was my partner on some assigments. He was quite dyslexic and he always wrote my name as "Jemery." I made fun of this all the time, so when I got into music school, I promised him my first album would be called "Jemery"

 

Jeremy passed away in 2008 due to a heart attack.
 

FPP | "We Really Like Dinosaurs" | 2005

FPP (Fuckers Playing Punk) is a punk rock band formed in Toronto in 2004. The band has only produced one album because of a disagreement between the drummer Jamie Beek and the lead guitarist Payton Fitz. "Each rehearsal things got worse with those two. When I realized we were arguing more than playing, I decided to quit," said the bassist Fred Scott.

Despite their short career, FPP managed to be relevant at the local punk scenario, being the occasional opening act for the bands Cancer Bats and Fucked Up.

"We Really Like Dinosaurs" prowess is that it was recorded at Jamie's basement and garage and sounded surprisingly good. "The drums sounded better at the garage for some reason, so we had to record each song three times: one with everyone to be our base at mixing, other at the basement for the guitar and the bass, and the last one for the drums at the garage."

 

After the band break up, Payton went back to law school and Jamie and Fred play with a wedding band to pay the bills while working on personal projects together.
 

Sila | "Sila" | 2013

Sila is a british downtempo duo consisting of Daryl Gibb and Jake Freeman. Their music style mixes elements of jazz, bossa nova and heavily edited nature sounds.

Daryl and Jake met in Japan at a Uyama Hiroto show. "We were the only non-japanese there, of course we became friends that day" said Jake jokingly at the autograph session of their first album "Sila."

The name Sila comes from the inuit culture. "The main idea of Sila is the balance of men with nature, and we tried to bring that to our music when we used nature sounds, like birds and the wind. But we didn't like to use their pure sounds, so we decided to experiment with them" said Daryl.

The duo is now on a world tour and has stated that the production of their next album will begin next year.
 

Sagitta | "Kids" | 1999

Sagitta is a psychedelic rock band from Sydney, Australia. The band members are Evan Paget (guitar/vocals), Stephanie Leon (keyboard/vocals), Raphael Carson (bass) and Liam Jones (drums).

Sagitta started has a The Doors cover band. Their first perfomance was a cover of "Light My Fire" at their high school talent show. Gradually, their original songs started to be a part of their live shows up to the point that they were no longer presenting themselves as a cover band.

"Kids" is their fourth album and it marks the return of Evan after losing his right leg due to a car accident. "We had a rough hiatus. I had to deal with depression while doing physiotherapy, all of my energy was focused on getting better. When I realized the lack of music was affecting my health, I called the whole band to the hospital so we could compose again" said Evan at a press conference.

Sagitta ended in 2009 after the release of their final album.

Sophie Morin | "Vague" | 2008

Sophie Morin is a jazz singer from Cannes, France. She started her carreer at 15 years old singing with her father who was a piano player for restaurants,  and when she turned 18 years old, she entered college and years later majored in singing.

After graduating, she sang a few songs for her father's solo album. The record label liked her voice and proposed to produce her own album. One year later, Sophie's debut solo album "Vague" was released.

"Vague" (french for "wave") offers a vast selection of classics, and some of them seen in a new light. For example, the track "And The Angels Sing" by Benny Goodman is only Sophie's voice with an acoustic guitar, the opposite of the known big band style. "I want to learn an instrument and start composing, maybe next album there will be some surprises" said Sophie.

Sophie's next album is being constantly delayed because she also enjoys being a guest singer at other bands.

Mr. Poison | "Occupy My Brain" | 1976

Mr. Poison is a swedish instrumental rock band formed in 1971. The band members (Elias Södergren, Hugo Ohlsson, Fredrik Bruun, Julian Bruun) are all multi-instrumentalists, although their preference are drums, guitar, bass and keyboards respectively.

The band started when the Bruun brothers were at a party at Hugo's house. Elias, who didn't know the Bruuns yet, showed up with a Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" album saying "listen to this beast." They all gathered on a room with a record player and after the last song they decided to create a band.

Being completely inspired by Black Sabbath, their first album was named "Evil Minds" after the second verse from "War Pigs." Following this trend, Mr. Poison second album, their best album according to the critics, "Occupy My Brain" is named after a verse from the song "Paranoid."

"Occupy My Brain" is their last official album after the plane crash that killed all the band members. Multiple bootleg albums containing demos and alternate versions of their music appeared on the mid 80s.

Lloyd Erikson | "Don't Fear The Fish" | 2011

Lloyd Erikson is a musician and comedian from Ireland. He studied drama at the University College Dublin, but has been playing the guitar since he was a kid. In order to pay the bills after he graduated, he was a private music teacher while he applied to auditions. In the meantime, he trained his performance skills by doing stand up shows at local comedy clubs.

 

After the incentive of some friends, Lloyd started to use music in his stand up shows. His shows began to be well known in Dublin to the point that In 2009 he went to Montreal to be a part of the Just For Laughs festival. The success of his show at Montreal made him decide that it was time to record his first album.

"Don't Fear The Fish" is Lloyd's first album, it contains a mix of studio and live recordings. "Some songs I prefer the studio version and some songs I prefer the live ones, there are some interactions with the audience that adds to the humor of the songs."

Regarding the title of the album: "I needed a name for the album and I was getting out of time. I remembered that I like Blue Öyster Cult and I hate fish, I mixed both and called it a day."
 

MugenKai | "The Flower Vagabond" | 2016

MugenKai is the stage name of Kaito Kurosawa, a rapper from Tokyo, Japan. His trademark is a white mask covering his eyes and hair completely, resembling an "eyeless" luchador mask. 

MugenKai became famous on the underground scene thanks to his multiple collaborations on live shows and on studio recordings. "Most of my collaborations and friends happened in MySpace, when we were young and had the time to cross the city just to make a beat into some guy's tiny bedroom."

Although he was classic trained in piano until he was 12, Kaito rarely plays it in his compositions, he prefers to search samples and use them for his rapping. However, on some live shows of his peers, it is possible to see him playing the synthesizer, and between songs he plays Bach to impress the audience.

"The Flower Vagabond" is the return of Kaito after a long hiatus which many fans speculated he was actually retiring when he announced it. The name of the album is based on a verse of the song "Feather" by Nujabes.

Kaito next plan is to perform outside of Japan. "Some great artists from California helped on my latest album. Maybe in the future we will meet again in a different land."

Cool Lilith | "Mephisto" | 2001

Cool Lilith is an instrumental heavy metal duo formed by Melissa Santos and Ana Barone. Both of them are guitar players, but depending on the song, they alternate between the bass and the occasional singing.

Melissa and Ana were students from the same private music teacher. Both of them were huge fans of Metallica and wanted to play in a band, so their teacher decided to introduce them to each other and have lessons together.

"Mephisto" is Cool Lilith's first original album recorded on a studio and released properly, the two previous EPs were cover albums and made as a hobby. "My brother works as sound designer on a production company for advertisement. The only reason "Mephisto" sounds decent is because of him," said Ana.

Cool Lilith has produced 4 more albums after "Mephisto," and is currently working on an acoustic album inspired by the work of Rodrigo Y Gabriela while presenting on a few cities in South America.