Year of the Dragon.  This can't be a coincidence, can it?

KMXIV.

This is a study of a cologne bottle.  I was experimenting with the characters KMXIV and trying to make an illegible, almost foreign looking logo.  I ended up with this.  Marie said that it looks like a cologne bottle.  So this is it.

The scent, I would imagine, is something redolent of balls and antisepsis at the same time, virility and infecundity all at once, magnetism and fear at the same time.  My lawyer told me to avoid using the word that rhymes with grape, so I'll just say that the guy that wears this cologne goes around crushing the opposition barefoot like juicy, little grapes.

Some Neverdaysie album cover.

This is the basic idea for a Neverdays album cover, not the next one (French) but the one after it (Serbo-Croatian)

The motifs are based on traditional Serbian embroidery.

The colors are not what I want at all.  It has to be one or the other - blue-white-gold or red-blue-gold.  Or something completely different.  Though thinking about it, the outer pattern gives a Greek, aestival, maritime feeling to the album while the inner one gives a sombre, woody, ecclesiastical mood, despite the thick, cartoony outlines.

The more I think about it, the more I think that they don't go well together and they should be split into two albums.

This, however, is so far in the future that I don't need to think about it now.

Dead & Alive: Album Cover

This is one of the potential album covers for Wavefunction Collapse - Dead & Alive.

Wavefunction Collapse: Mastering

I received the revised masters for Wavefunction Collapse's "I Want You" today.  The first version of the song (both radio and video versions) had a flat low end, something that would sound better for broadcast.  The problem is that the kick drum completely disappears in the mix.

I remixed the song, increased the volume on the kick drum and asked Rene at Supreme Mastering to remaster it.  The video version would be more dynamic and the radio one flat.

The revised versions were very good, however, both contained a crackling sound in the file, an artefact of the mastering process.

I asked Rene to have a look and I'm waiting for the result.

It's good to have fresh ears listen to the music, because sometimes you focus so hard on one aspect that you miss others.  In this case, since I did not attend the mastering sessions, when I heard the song, it was the first time I heard it that week, as opposed to the 60th of that day.