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After a lot of work Matt has finally finished the poster for Trestle Unmasked and Increpacion Danza’s theatre production of ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’. We’re really pleased with it and we think they are too.

Initial inspiration for the feel of the poster came from the work of the artist Mark Ryden (www.markryden.com) – the difficulty lay mainly in doing something with a similar feel, but within our own style and not derivative of his work. It took time to get there but we definitely feel we have achieved this goal.

Here are some of the production images from the poster design. This one is Matt’s compositional sketch for the poster:

This is the original pencil drawing of the central figure in the poster:

This is the original sketch that Matt did of the ‘ugly boy’ in the play. This was not used in the final poster but a variation on this has been used for the flipside of the flyer.

The next step on our work for ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’ is a series of promo films for the show. At the moment we’re working on a short (20 second) teaser promo, the next step will be some interviews with the director, Emily Gray, and this will be followed by a full promo before the tour commences in March.

I’ve just got a new website finished for my (our?) net-label. You can check it out here: www.disperserecords.co.uk

So that’s one step closer to actually establishing Disperse Records as an actual functioning entity that people know about. The next step on the way is to finalize a couple more releases, then put together a press release to tell the world about it all this music/noise stuff!

On that tip we already have a new release up on the site. It’s called ‘The Yellow Emperor’ and it’s an album by ‘Arthur Winkler NOW!’. It’s a collage of a load of improvisations by myself and Matt and we’re really pleased with it. We reckon it’s a fairly unique listening experience, but please wander over to Disperse, download it from our Soundcloud and judge for yourself!

Here’s the cover, based on a pencil drawing that you can check out in an earlier blog post:

The Birthday of the Infanta design work is coming on… We’ve got something that is really going to work with the overall design in terms of poster work etc.  Can’t wait to work on the illustrations.

This is a picture that I have just finished inking. Its original title is ‘I took the spider from my purse, looked at it and said “begone!”. And lo! The spider was gone.’ which is something that happened into my mind one time at the edge of sleep. A bit of a mouthful…

Anyway, it is the first ‘proper’ image I have created with my hands (as in not a photo) in about 10 years or so. I think I quite like it, but will have to give a bit more time before I know for sure. Matt says he likes it tho, which is encouraging.