A LOW HUM

A few years ago while on tour, me and some friends discussed the future of music distribution.

We were all well and truly over the CD as a format, it wasn’t only the wasted resources and environmental impact of the production of the CD that was annoying us, it was just that we didn’t even feel the one saving grace of purchasing music in a physical format anymore (the artwork) was even represented well with the CD, and getting vinyl pressed was simply too expensive and an elusive luxury.

It seemed so blindingly obvious. We loved the portability, affordability and no boundaries distribution of the MP3, but missed the collection and appreciation of the associated artwork. So I boiled it down to its bare necessities, removing all the unnecessary packaging and have decided to make the bulk of my future releases simply digital downloads with hand-printed artwork.

Many have been aware of my obsession with screen printed art over the years. I love the fragility of it, that every print is different. You know that each piece is unique and were created from scratch. It helps remove ourselves from the soulless world of mass-manufactured CDs and landfills full of unsold plastic jewel cases and discs.

The beauty of the MP3 is its availability to anybody with an internet connection, I didn’t want postage to become a hindrance to presenting this artwork, so have made postage free, anywhere in the World!

I settled on A4 as the ideal size after experimenting with ideas from postcard through to A3. The A4 seemed to be the perfect size where it was visible and looked great on a wall, but didn’t intrude. Also, the size reminded me of sticking record covers on the wall of my bedroom growing up and falling in love with album artwork in the first place.

Thank you so much for helping with damages/extra expenses etc. It means a ton!!

Once you have made a deposit please email me your mailing address as I am cooking up something interesting this year and I would like to send out a special treat to my generous benfactors: alowhum@gmail.com

Either just pop some money into:
CAMP A LOW HUM
03 0525 0337765 00
Westpac

or make a paypal payment to: alowhum@gmail.com

Poster by Glen Ross

Poster by Michael DeForge

posters hand screen printed on A3 250 gsm card. $10 each