August 26, 2011 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Artist Love, Chris, For Sale, Friends + Family, Life, Like + Love, Our Artwork
As many of you probably know by now, I’m a pretty big fan of Scott Tuma, whose music has filled the Koelle family headquarters for years. If you’ve ever spent any decent amount of time at our house or studio, the chances are you heard Mr. Tuma’s music playing in the background, perhaps softly, perhaps loudly. The thing is, the beauty (and I don’t use that word lightly–real, tangible, audible, heart-aching beauty you can almost touch with the tips of your fingers through the air in the room) of much of Scott’s music is that even when it’s turned up loud on the stereo, it’s still as soft as the freshly made bed sheets you covered yourself under as a child with a warm-to-the-touch see-the-lava-red-color-of-blood-through-your-fingertips-pressed flashlight to light and warm the self-made gravity-laden cavern tent in the night with the lights out in your room, in your bed.
Last year I had the joy of creating the artwork / limited art edition for his last solo record Dandelion (Digitalis) and I’m so happy to have created all new artwork for this essential vinyl / cassette reissue of Not For Nobody (originally released in 2008 on CD also by Digitalis) presented by the always wonderful Immune Recordings.
I created as part of the reissue a very limited art edition book, bound by hand, featuring 16 pages of new drawing and collage artwork inspired by Scott’s own kaleidoscopic photographs of his surroundings–ravens, weather vanes, church steeples, barren branches.
Each hand-bound book (measuring 8.25×8″ folded) is printed full-color on thick card stock and individually signed and numbered in a limited edition of only 44 copies.
These limited art edition LPs will likely go fast. Pre-orders available now at Immune! $44 shipped in the US.
October 12, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Friends + Family, Our Artwork
Finally, we have documented the Solo Andata Ritual Edition of One, an utterly unique hand-made box set created in honor of the inaugural release from Desire Path Recordings.
Beautifully photographed by my good friend and Desire Path collaborator Aaron Greene, the Ritual Edition of One includes:
- The Ritual 12″ LP Art Edition, featuring Ritual etching number 1 of 50, signed and numbered by C. Koelle
- 12″ LP featuring totally unique and singular blood-red marbled vinyl LP
- The original one-of-a-kind cover artwork painting, drawn in white chalk and China marker on a 12″x12″x1″ black-painted wood panel, signed and dated on back by C. Koelle
- A unique laser-etched CD-R containing nearly 40 minutes of exclusive, unreleased live recordings from Solo Andata
- All contents lovingly swaddled in white gauze and housed in a completely custom hand-made black wooden box with sliding lid
- $600 including shipping and insurance anywhere in the world SOLD
Although the Edition of One is spoken for, the Limited Art Edition, including a signed and numbered etching, is still available exclusively at Desire Path Recordings. But if you want one, don’t wait because there are only 49 for the world, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good!
October 1, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Artist Love, Chris, For Sale, Friends + Family, Life, Our Artwork
Well, the reason it’s been so quiet around here is because our Macbook charger died and so Annie hasn’t really set foot on the internet lately, except for the occasional email check on my computer here at the studio. Still waiting on a replacement charger. Rest assured, Annie will be back to posting again soon.
Meanwhile, earlier this year I was honored to be approached by a brand new record label, Desire Path Recordings, about doing art direction, design, and limited edition artwork for exclusively vinyl-only releases. Uh… yeah? Dream job.
So after all this time, the 12″ vinyl LP is finally ready for the world. Ritual is Solo Andata’s third full-length offering and the inaugural release for Desire Path Recordings.
I created a Limited Art Edition (akin to the Scott Tuma Dandelion LP from earlier this year) that includes a hand-drawn, hand-inked etching strictly limited to 49 copies (images below the cover art). If you want one of the etchings, don’t wait because once they’re gone, they’re gone. An ultra-deluxe Edition of One box set will also be available for purchase very soon, pictures coming soon…!
Sure, the “dark ambient” genre may likely not be your cup of tea (sorry mom and mom-in-law and fellow now-worried church members), but man, I’m really pleased with how the whole release turned out: seriously stunning sounds (essential headphone listening!) and art I’m really happy with… (Textura’s review complimented “a cover illustration that distills the material’s essence into a single image.”) It’s always such a pleasure when music, art, and design go together like cold weather, coffee, and a pipe. Yum.
Thank you Michael, Paul, Kane, Aaron, Annie, and Marshall.
More pictures to come VERY soon…!
September 21, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Friends + Family
He turned 3 about a week and a half ago. He is creative and imaginative, he tells me about rabbits sleeping in nests in a tree on a mountain, about his rock band consisting completely of trumpets and horns, he loves to help me cook. I love you a million, Marshall Koelle.
August 31, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Friends + Family, Life
A wedding of flowers to do this weekend, next week Indie Craft Parade! Oi!
Today watched my weekly batch of little boys for a kid-watch swap I do with another mom from church. . . we made these little boats inspired by the Jonah story and prop a smart teacher did for the kids in Sunday School this Sunday. . . I wish my own audience had been entertained for longer by them, I think I could have made them all day! Here are some directions to fold your own. Its fun to cut out sharks and schools of fish to lay around on the floor. . . if you actually have the time, I did consider an ark of animals, but my paper wasn’t quite big enough.
August 15, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Art Shows, Friends + Family, Kid Art Show, Life
The kid show. I am terribly exhausted, but, it was the best show I have ever hung. The walls of this old house have never been so refreshed I think. What a night, downpour of rain that made a river through the walk, Dan swooping in like a hero, the clouds peeling pack with my prayers, and many more adoring art fans than I anticipated. I wish the world could have seen these pieces, especially the titles, I’ll post some more about that tomorrow. I am now the owner of Jude’s “the bluish shine” and Helena’s elegant wire face, should it not be in the MOMA?
August 4, 2010 | Posted By: Annie
Filed Under Art Shows, Friends + Family, Kid Art Show, Life
The title, what Marshall says for “little bit”, usually used when asking for a taste of my ice cream, or wanting more of a cartoon. . .
Images, preview of the Kid Art Show we are throwing at White Whale, Saturday August 14th at 6:30 pm. There will be cookies made by the mothers of all the artists (all are great cooks actually), hopefully a dry sidewalk for chalk drawing, and a sheet tent I have yet to configure. And lots of great art, painted and drawn with a rare abandon that most of us since have lost. Some of the pieces will be for sale, others reserved for archives. The monster (google eyes), triceratops (blues with pink pencils), and collage by Marshall. The photos of the cake and the sculpture were taken by Mollie, they are done by Jude and Henry. We are all hoping for more cakes, I have a feeling that one’s for the archive. . .
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