Mediterranea

Cover designed for 2-tracks promo CD Mediterranea by Francesca Gancitano.

Media: digital

NOS

media: digital

Cover art and package design for NOS, an electronic 'supergroup' formed by three experienced underground musicians here in Genoa: Riccardo Canessa, Claudio Ferrari and Marco Cacciamani.

Since NOS project rise from the meeting of three musicians, their history and their styles, I based the whole concept on number three: from the band logo (formed by three letters associated with alchemic symbols) to the image of three forms of different kind, provenance and colour (the musicians) which meet in the black (void space, nowhere, or silence), intersecting each other and generating white colour (light, energy, or music, if you like).

You can listen a selection of tracks from this album on the NOS official myspace site

Fludd - True Temper

media: digital

Cover art and graphic package for another album by Marco Cacciamani.

This time I wanted to pay tribute to the cold graphic of the '80s, with its risky color combinations. Incidentally, it became also a tribute to Warhol's graphic art.
Just at the end of the work Marco told me he had taken the title of the album from a painting by Warhol he had seen at an exhibition. To both, it seemed like the perfect closure of a circle.

You can listen some tracks from this album on Marco Cacciamani's myspace site.

Fludd - Vast and Fixed

media: photo, digital.

A cover for electronic music composer Marco Cacciamani. He dreamed the concept, and I visualized it as a personal tribute to Hipgnosis. Strange suspended mood with all the realistic precision of the photography... do you remember Wish You Were Here and Presence?

Again, an opening cover, this time in a more conventional horizontal layout.

Snika

media: colour pencils

My very first CD cover, for Snika's debut (and sole) album, a little gem of underground rock from Bologna.
Clearly, a tribute to Cream's covers like Wheels of Fire or Disraeli Gears. I always loved that graphic style, very Rock but also very free and artistic.
Another thing I always loved are the opening covers with artwork that continues on the back side.
This one continues in vertical because the booklet is a square mini-poster folded four times. I thought was funny to let the listener free to choose as main cover the lower half part with the creamy "Snika" logo or the upper half part with the portaits of the musicians.

You can listen I Can't Shine Like You, a track taken from this album, on Snika's myspace site. Enjoy!