Saturday, 12 April 2008 | Levent OZLER
Spectral Sound Teams Up With WeWorkForThem
Spectral Sound, Dancefloor counterpart label of Ghostly International, has teamed up with design legend Mike Cina of WeWorkForThem and TrueIsTrue to deliver a body of elegant and considered artwork for the label's new releases.
Cina and Ghostly founder Sam Valenti IV have long considered working together and after many packages of records and books traded hands, the two companies have created something striking.
Cina describes the collaboration as "perfect timing." "I met Sam in the early 2000's. He contacted me about some work I was doing." "Late last year, I was wanting to work on some personal-type work and it happened to be what direction Ghostly was going in. WeWorkForThem also was doing some stuff that needed the type of sound that Ghostly/Spectral is perfecting, seems like a perfect match for me."
Valenti agrees. "Collaborating with Mike was something we wanted to do for quite sometime, after seeing some of the projects he had been working on, it forced our hand."
The 12" sleeves represent both a neo-classical and abstract beauty and document a new era for the Ann Arbor based label. The 3 covers represent a new breed of Spectral talent including Kate Simko, Sami Koivikko and Cologne-based duo, Daso & Pawas. Ghostly will be offering a limited edition of prints of each cover on their online boutique The Ghostly Store as well as t-shirts by YouWorkForThem.
"Spectral is stepping into it's eigth year which looks to be it's best both musically and visually. We are proud to deliver these works and hope our fans appreciate them as much as we do." Valenti says.
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