a friend of mine alerted me that this ultra-hand-made Crazy Spirit 12" was for sale at the Sorry State web store and i quickly snagged a copy for the blog... i believe the art was done by sam ryser, and this is easily the most hand-made and over-the-top screen printed record i will encounter all year! the covers are 2 color screen prints on a coated white chipboard material. they were printed flat and then folded and assembled. love the little block print illustration happening in that circle, i almost wish it was really big as the cover image. don't get me wrong, i like the minimal and understated approach, but when you have something killer to show, show it big....
the back cover is more of this big messy roller print texture that has been engineered to look as though it was relief printed over the fold marks of the back panel post assembly, but it looks to me that they printed these in one shot unfolded. get lost in the darkness....
there is also a small screen print on the inside of the cover of some snake pictographs, but i couldn't get a usable photo of that....
ok, here is where the shit really starts to get wild! there is a 2 color, 9"x14" folded booklet that unfolds to be a 18"x24" 2 sided poster. here is a shot of the front of the insert folded, this panel is a pretty sweet mash up of photocopied and distorted shit mixed with some nice loose illustrations and hand made type. love the 2 color over printing in the screening, that is always a personal favorite for me....
unfold it once for an amazing hand written lyric sheet. the varying size of the typography creates great movement in the composition. the combination of the illustration style and the way the 2 colors interact with each other is pretty great, perfect for this kind of art....
unfold it again and this thing becomes a crazy looking, crazy spirit poster. 18"x24" 2 color screen print... love the illustration, love the type, and overall just a really nice use of geometric space....
here is a shot of the back of the insert all folded up. similar to the front insert panel, this has a lot of little hidden imagery buried within the photocopier noise and the over-printed color....
the A and B labels are just a solid pink label, no art. however, the dust sleeve was screen printed! pretty cool, but i wish they had matched the color of the labels to the ink used in the screen prints...
this was a Quality Control release, but i have no idea where you can get it, i think it may be sold out....
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