Album packaging for Nico Muhly, a young avant-garde classical composer whose music has been described as “alternating between glittering corals of arpeggios and plonky, sputtering chunks of melody”. This was his first album, and the first release of the Iceland-based label Bedroom Community Records. 

 

While recording this album, Muhly split his time between New York and Iceland, which we wanted to reflect in the packaging. In addition, Nico’s elegant, yet sporadic sound warranted the playful interruptions of the text with specks of texture and chunks of space.

 

© 2009 Lindsay Ballant