Helena Blomqvist’s cover art for Anna Ternheim
Swedish visual artist Helena Blomqvist created the striking album cover artwork for singer-songwriter, Anna Ternheim, who saw her photos for the exhibition, The Dark Planet, and immediately felt that she wanted to work with Blomqvist. It turned out that the artist had been listening to Ternheim’s music while preparing the pictures for the exhibition. ‘I was drawn to the tone of her pictures,’ says Ternheim. ‘They display something dark and surreal that hit me straight in the heart. I contacted her last summer and was thrilled when she agreed to work with me’.
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Anna Ternheim is a singer-songwriter from Stockholm who has just released the album, Leaving On A Mayday. Her music has a dark touch about it which hints at influences from Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. We checked in with her and asked her about the music that inspired the recording. She started with the El Perro del Mar song, L-is for Love [listen below]: ‘I heard the song Dog a couple of years ago and was quite impressed. I love the production, the way it builds up and how the beat intensifies throughout the piece. At the same time, the song shows a great deal of restraint. It’s cold, hard, dark, and very beautiful’.
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Like most people, I first locked eyes on Sanna Annukka’s beautiful designs when British band Keane commissioned her to create the artwork for their second album ‘Under The Iron Sea’. Her silkscreen creations are a cool blend of her Finnish heritage (most notably, the epic poem The Kalevala), as well as the art of the Far East. [read about the behind the scene stories of your favourite album covers]
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