The Kin - THE UPside

This is my most recent job - It's the album artwork for The Kin from NYC/LA...

It's a 6 panel Digicase for their 2nd Album produced by Jack Douglas who has worked with such incredible artists as (John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Miles Davis, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, The Who, Patti Smith, The New York Dolls so on and so on...)

So this is my response to the music and the new direction of the band. The music is full of beautiful harmonies and waves of warm colours and rad production (obviously.) Much love to Isaac, Thorry and Georgie x x x

THIS IS MELBOURNE COMPILATION CD

This is a compilation CD that is about to come out as a free give away...
It features a group of really talented Melbourne bands including:

Illzilla
Melodics
Labjacd
San Lazaro
The Public Opinion Afro Ochestra
Diafrix

We were trying to think of a name/concept for the compilation and I came up with an idea to reference the film 'This Is England' and just call it 'This Is Melbourne.'
So I worked with the colours and type style of the movie and sketched up a Melbourne-looking kid - still with his finger up and with braces, but with black jeans, a flannel, a stetson hat and an el-coolio hair style...

I had a lot of info to work with on the back so I created a sectioned off grid to keep all the dates and info readable and not toooo cluttered. I'm really happy with this one, it makes me laugh :)







Reference For 'This Is Melbourne'

MELODICS 'LIVE FROM NOWHERE EP'

Here is the front and back cover of Melodics' new live in the studio EP.
I thought of calling the EP 'Live From Nowhere' as a way of making it a lil different from just the usual 'live in the studio' thang... Then thought of the idea of illustrating us all in 'nowhere.' The bird's eye perspective was just a nice way of capturing the band in an interesting way; I often think of how different things look from different angles and I guess from above is one that you rarely see a band from. I used the muted colours on the yellow because I feel it suits the sound of the new EP... you can hear it at: www.myspace.com/melodics

DETAILS FROM MELODICS 'LIVE FROM NOWHERE EP'

Here is a detail of myself and Fantastic Mr Fox on the synths...

PABLO DISCOBAR & MELODICS

I created this poster last week for an up coming show with Pablo & Melodics. I designed their debut EP which I developed the phone branding for, which I took and updated for this poster. I used my favourite post-punk colours {yellow/pink} to give it a poppy edge and it came up looking very Pop Art indead...

NOISEFEST 2009

I finished this poster design yesterday for a mini festival at Prince Of Wales. The heading is a hand-drawn font {which I've been loving recently} the mega-phone is also hand-drawn. The rest is vector including the dirty paint style which I created out of original ink texture {importing then live-tracing}.

EXTENDED FAMILY {SYD}

This is a job I've just completed for a blues band from Sydney called Extended Family. They wanted a new branding with a bluesy, down and out feel with warm colours and a bit of a narrative. We decided to call the EP 'Yesterday Morning' ... This is what I came up with...

ARTIFICIAL CARTOON CHARACTER SKELETONS

I just stumbled across this work from a Korean art exhibition that "explores the fictional anatomy of cartoon characters, with elaborate faked-up skeletons for Looney Toons characters, anatomical drawings of Mickey and friends, and many other artifacts from the study of toon anatomy". Very cool me thinks!

Recording Forever Love

Thanks to Leon Thomas and Llama for recording our track and to Kathy Sinclair for bringin' the good vibes...

GHOST MONEY

This is a character sketch I just did as a representative of Melodics' track 'Ghost Money'... I will upload the lyrics to the song when I have finished polishing them. Peace

KISSHEAD

My beautiful partner, lover, muse and best friend Juleiaah Boehm is working on a nu solo music project called KISSHEAD…
This name comes from the strange place that we go together; a place that has given birth to love robots, shy dragons, troubled monkeys, aloof lions, kisshands and ... kissheads. My little sister believes this special place is called 4D (which is the title of the Melodics album) this may be true but I don't think we will ever know. Whatever this place is called it is the dimension that warms my soul and keeps me safe ... thank you sweet Juleiaah ... This artwork is of course dedicated to you ...
Enjoy

FULL PIECE

DETAIL 01

DETAIL 02

DETAIL 03

FULL PIECE B+W

ALEXX THE KIDD

Here is the artwork I have just finished for Alexx The Kidd's debut album 'Boom Bounce' Sending it to print tomorrow. If ya wanna hear their music go to: www.myspace.com/alexxthekiddmusic
FRONT COVER

BACK COVER

POSTER

Small Room/Large Vibe

Well, twas another slamming night at Bar Open on Friday. We tried out some nu tunes and they went down a treat … Room was packed but will aim for more of a squeeze next week. For those who haven’t come down: there are 2 gigs of the Bar Open Residency left – this Fri 20th March and nxt Fri 27th March (My 25th birthday) … Love to see ya there!


"Show us your Super Pose!"

"I'm a lover, I'm a fighter, I'm a dreamer I'm a long-range sniper..."

Photos by KAYO Photography - check her shots out at:
www.myspace.com/lei_loo

ANTHONY LISTER'S SUPERHERO SERIES

Superhero

As I mentioned in my last blog we have just created a track called 'Superhero'. I have written the lyrics about the concept of feeling like a superhero when you actually ain't; I know I have felt that way on many occasions resulting in a fizzled out body n brain. I was inspired by my love of comic art and Spider Man comics and so forth but also by the work of artist Anthony Lister. Lister had done a series of dope paintings that feature the likes of Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine and so on. I have chucked a few up so you can see how they have inspired me …

ANTHONY LISTER'S SUPERHERO SERIES

MELODICS BAR OPEN RESIDENCY

I created this poster design for Melodics a few weeks ago. I wanted to make something with that Punk/New Wave style: dirty, Poppy and striking. I teamed up with my sister Leila Koren on this one: she took the shots and I edited them up and layered colours and textures to create the vibe. Check out Leila's Photography at: www.redbubble.com/search/leila koren

Nu Vibes from the Melodics HQ

Melodics have acquired a beautiful Head Quarters in Carlton which will now be fondly referred to as The HQ. The space is an ex-recording studio that went out of business presumably due to the shift from analogue to digital and is still decked out with dusty gear and old school energy. We have lugged our own gear in there and have been working on new material too many times a week; resulting in delirious concoctions and tensions – the outcome being some exciting sounds and songs.


The two newest songs are titled Weather Man and Superhero. The former is a banging, forceful electro number from the perspective of an angry weather man who is feeling the effects of continual criticism and guilt for either getting the weather wrong or having to read out potentially life-threatening climates n conditions. Superhero is a bouncy 80s-infused punk tune with a high-pitched chorus and some fat raps to balance it with the new school flavarinos.


Here are some of the lyrics:

‘Sometimes I act like I got a rocket pack on my back/
And I can fly and my identity is hidden/
And I feel like anything I do is right/
And I got the super-sight yes I got the X-ray Vision/
And I can save the world and I can take the girl/
The bad guy I grab and I hurl into the distance/
And in the mic check I flex my biceps/
Before I go I let em know that I’m a hero/’


So there be the first update from Le Melodics HQ …Will update some nu vibes soon. And some shots of the HQ.
Peace, Jeremedy

MY MELODICS POSTER ARTWORKS:

UPCOMING GIGS:

This is a poster I created for a show we did with our good friends Illzilla on Valentine's Day. Mantra from Illzilla came up with the idea of having an 'I heart Hip-hop' style icon so I illustrated this fuzzy monster holding up a Valentine's card with that concept on his shirt.