artwork for @ensemble.ny ‘s wine this summer
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“‘Rapt & Rosy’ (2024) is an effervescent country wine. It’s nothing fancy, but it is extraordinarily refreshing. A cloudy blend of apples and Catawba. It’s like a floral grapefruit-guava smoothie. Only organic and wild fruit.”
- Calvin
Grateful to have contributed to Tiffany & Co. as a Global Creative Consultant in Autumn 2024, where I helped with the extension of the Icons campaign across global high-impact placements, consulted on edits for the Holiday campaign featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, and supported early proof of concepts for the ‘Language of Love’ Valentine’s Day campaign.
for @significantutha@pain___mgmt
Grey cd inside a transparent double-disc jewel case with thin trail cam graphic application on the front
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Pain Management presents the first in a series of archival live recordings. The first offering lands via a double disk set from label boss Significant Other, a sprawling three hour haze of nascent dub excursions and sub bass conjuring deployed for the closing hours of Sustain Release festival 2024. Recorded between the hours of 3-6am in the woods of upstate New York, the since-infamous set is a rare documentation of the witching hour fugue state evocation quickly becoming the Sig O’ trademark.
Tracing the time slot’s roadmap of darkness-to-dawn, the opening is a crooning embrace of forest floor ambient - heartsleeve drone soup from the likes of Nueen, Drumloop, Richard Hronsky soundtracking the predawn dim.
From this sparse canvas of first-light longing anthems, the mix descends over the course of three hours into a fog machine session of after hours headiness and liminal sludge. A fugue state of dubwise beats cherry picked from the darker spectrum of dub and off-kilter percussion, seamlessly weaving the likes of cult weirdos such as Painkiller, Holy Tongue, Muslimgauze, Dregs - into a heads-down sleaze of dissociative revelry.
Described by one onlooker as ‘like witnessing a Roman orgy’ and another as ‘the moment the chill out room woke up’, with masterful patience the recording sees the pain management pro gently pull listeners from a latent slumber into fever dream motion to close out the festival.
Contains: Memphis rap anthems, early Sinéad O’Connor break tunes, Greek wedding music, liberal dub siren usage, steppers in abundance. Serious witching music - don’t sleep.
Ultra limited run of 70 double-disk CD sets available now on Pain Management.
Design by @devividly
Distribution by @rubadub
art direction and design for @nikizefanya album “Buzz”
Thank you to the whole team 💥
Album written and produced by: NIKI
Co-produced by: Ethan Gruska, Jacob Ray, Mark McKenna, Andy Seltzer
Creative director: Steph Lau
Photographers: Annie Lai, Parker Woods
Stylists: Rubina Marchiori, Katie Qian
Makeup: Crystabel Riley, Sinh Vo
Hair: Ryo Narushima, Athena Alberto
Movement coach: Simon Donnellon
Photoshoot producer: Emily Truong
Art directors: Steph Lau, David Lee
Graphic designer: David Lee
Artist management: Sean Myashiro, Ollie Zhang
