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Orange Grove Band Website Design
Their music is all about positive energy and feel-good vibes, raggae with cross overs into other styles like Hiphop, Zouk, Rock and Soca. The design needed to be beachy, fresh, and “Orange Grovey” {click for more}
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Himalayan Community Project Website Design
Website redesign for The Himalayan Community Project. The HCP is a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to social and economic empowerment through sustainable education initiatives to benefit children from under-developed villages in Nepal. {click for more}
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Dag in de Branding Trailer
The festival, in my opinion, is about asking the question, “where does classical music go from here”. Of course that’s one of those big debates, like, “What is the point of art”. What is classical music, and why does it even need to go anywhere. As a classically trained pianist, I see it as a question that arises from the feeling that we stand in the shadow of giants. Is music like literature, where all the great stories have already been told, and everything is just a variation or a derivative work of something that has been done before? {click for more}
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Gare du Nord
Their music has a bit of everything. Urban jazz, delta blues and a good splashing of groove dance. It’s really diverse, especially if you go through their complete discography of 6 albums, starting from Kind of Cool, in 2003. They’ve come a long, long way since, from playing exclusively in the Dutch-Belgian region to being featured in the popular HBO series Six Feet Under. {click for more}
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Ladylike Dragons
They formed in 2006, not so long ago, but are already going places. They having already accumulated close to 400 dates in 60 cities in France, and have been spotted by the press (The Inrocks, Vox Pop, Rock & Folk) and Yes FM. They are Cindy on Bass, Yann on Drums and Seb on guitar. They play an awesome infusion of garage rock and real energetic pop melodies, {click for more}
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Esma Redžepova
Esma Redžepova is a Gypsy, and she’s possibly their loudest voice (pun intended) in this prejudiced world. She performs internationally, bringing a piece of their music and culture to the rest of the world. Her, and her band, consisting of shifting portions of her 47 adopted children whom she took in and whose musical talents she nurtured. Funily enough, the thing she is probably most famous for today is the Borat movie soundtrack, her songs being used in it without her consent. {click for more}
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Amanda Palmer
She’s one of the best solo-performers I’ve seen live, and one of The Guardian’s favourite solo-artists of 2008. She bangs at her piano, jokes with her audience, sings us songs she wrote the night before on the back of a napkin, and has a really special rapport with her audience. And her music, oh yeah… powerful, discordant, with lyrics that range from ambigously smutty (although she denies that “Coin-Operated Boy” isn’t about a vibrator) to downright dirty {click for more}
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Anniversary of War of the Worlds
Having fiction seep into reality, I think, has been one of mankind’s eternal pursuits. Must be something that lingers from childhood. A need to cling on to the last threads of fantasy. First religion, then video games, and soon to be, Minority Report style pleasure-bots. But back then, it started with this. Using a medium normally reserved for the telling of facts for fiction, as a prank. And a really good one too. {click title for more…}
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Cobla La Principal d’Amsterdam
As autumn dawns on Holland, it was nice to have something from the south to prolong the summer just a little more. Having them play on the streets of The Hague was a very nice touch to the weekend, especially since the main thing going for this city is the music.The band travels to Catalonia often, bringing their music back to its origins, but with that little outside touch to it that makes it special. {click for more}
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Deolinda from Portugal
The band’s style can be described as inspired by fado, however it differs substantially from that traditional Portuguese music genre. For instance, Deolinda does not use Portuguese guitar as fado would dictate. Also, their songs and lyrics are not serious and fatalistic like classic fados: instead, they largely use humor, irony (often against fado itself) and a fast, happy pace. {click for more}
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Ellen ten Damme
For people that have been following Underground Aristocracy, it is now Madhouse Heaven, producing even more photos, videos and print graphics for company and festival promos. Madhouse Heaven also dispenses design tidbits and unsolicited opinions on all things arty in our blog. Stay tuned for yummy pics and vids and what-not!
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The Nabokov Specimen Box Project
Nabokov was a passionate butterfly collector, a theme that has cropped up on some of his past covers. My idea was also a play on this concept. Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects. Each box would be filled with paper, ephemera, and insect pins, selected to somehow evoke the book’s content. {click for more}