I don’t do album art very often anymore but I often do it for my wife, who is the Tania in the band Via Tania and now as The Tania and Jori Continents. The Tania and Jori Continents- Continent One is a product of her collaboration with Finnish DJ / producer Jori Hulkonnen which began a few years ago. They originally began with a collaboration on a remix of a If I Know You by The Presets. When I listened to Continent One I couldn’t shake the image of wide open organic spaces invaded by alien, elemental forms, like the obelisk in 2001. I called my good friend, architect Paul Preissner ( http://www.paulpreissner.com ) to render the alien forms because his concepts for building shapes and skins are amazing constructions of the microscopic natural world made large. I asked him to create something that suggested the naturally occurring geometrical shapes of crystals and hexagonal basalt and he gave me these beautiful shapes that remind me of crystalline viruses or paramecia.
You can listen to a sample track from Continent One here.
Tags: Album Art, Tania and Jori, Via Tania
