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Planetarium

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jun 23rd, 2017. Artwork published in
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    Cover image by Jessica Dessner
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    Cover image by Jessica Dessner

    4AD:

    Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble has assembled an expansive song cycle that explores the Sun, the Moon, the planets and other celestial bodies of our solar system (and beyond) through soundscape, song, science and myth.

    The Vinyl Factory:

    With a concept that shoots for the stars, it’s not surprising that the vinyl release is equally expansive. To do it justice, eleven artists were commissioned to create eleven astral portraits of nine planets, the sun and the moon, all of which are presented on individual 12″ cards slipped into the album’s gatefold.

    Artwork: Cecily Brown (Earth), Jessica Dessner (cover image), Marcel Dzama (Moon), Stephen Halker (Mars), Jim Hodges (Neptune, inner gatefold image), David Huffman (Uranus), Karl Jensen (Sun), Ragnar Kjartansson (Pluto), Mehreen Murtaza (Mercury), Nathlie Provosty (Jupiter, back image), Matthew Ritchie (Saturn), Saya Woolfalk (Venus)
    Layout: Alison Fielding

    The typography pairs two typefaces that were both first released in 1972, Rosmarie Tissi’s Sinaloa — see also The Tomita Planets (1976) — and ITC Serif Gothic by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna, which appeared in the advertising for Star Wars (1977), among other places.

    Double LP
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    Double LP

    Planetarium 3
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    Planetarium 4
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    Lyrics
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    Lyrics

    Vinyl labels
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    Vinyl labels

    Back cover with an image by Nathlie Provosty
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    Back cover with an image by Nathlie Provosty

    CD cover
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    CD cover

    Announcement poster
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    Announcement poster

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    • Sinaloa
    • ITC Serif Gothic

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