Le designer, Andrew Ashton Cartell Music is an independent music label bringing music, other than Western sounds, to willing ears. In the process of putting words together and developing a graphic outcome, we seek to find a visual gag, or cliché within in the words, so to minimize the need for additional visual elements. An exclamation mark said – ‘hello you weirdo design nerds’, from this assemblage of letter forms and we were off to design utopia. We continued to customise the type to end up with a robust composition of lettering, which went onto develop a range of rendered variations.
Illustration by Kat MacleodSince 2005 Kat Macleod creates the illustration for So Frenchy So Chic albums. Here is some insight on Kat’s work in progress. I have always been fascinated by the creative process, and you? jackywinter.comortolan.com.au Melanie Pain 15-18/03/09
Melanie Pain has left our shores after a warm series of live concerts in Wellington, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. The lead singer of Nouvelle Vague who seduced millions with her breathy vocals, now brings her ingénue musical charms to a solo career mixing French and English, indie and pop, with songs both sassy and sweet. Our Oceanic region is releasing Melanie’s debut album “My name’ first. It will reach France in September. Enjoy the journey. Read more So Frenchy So Chic 2009
‘Like an echo of siren song along the Seine, this collection of the latest French pop, indie and chanson will lure you on a journey to unexpectedly tantalising corners of the Gallic musical landscape. Seun Kuti – Music is the weapon
Seun Kuti won’t admit to writer’s block. He will, however, concede to having spent the past week or two pacing listlessly from room to room waiting for the words and notes for his next album to fall into an easy rhythm. “You can’t go out, you can’t listen to music, you just have to sit at home and write all day. It’s all there, I’m just waiting for it to come,” he says wearily of the songwriting process, his voice followed down the phone line by a snatch of distorted hip-hop.
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