We first met with the owner/manager (Andrew?) and discussed packaging. We hope to go with the 'digipak' rather than a jewel case (compare here); however, the digipak adds $$ to the project (about 40 cents per CD). Noiseland is local and both our recording and mixing engineer are familiar with the company (and the folk at Noiseland knows both of them!).
After some of the business discussion , Andrew brought over Dan, one of their designers, who has an interest in old-timey music - at one point he brought over the Yazoo CD, The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of, which is a collection of rare 78s with artwork by Robert Crumb (himself a 78 collector).
Lynn, who is fronting the artwork from our end, had brought her computer and showed Dan the photo shoot by Tracy Nielsen taken at Lake Harriet in October. Some of the pictures are on our page on facebook and should be on our myspace site soon.
As they looked through the photos, both Dan pointed out a picture he thought might make a good album cover: Lynn had been looking at the same picture. We are starting to feel pretty good about choosing Noiseland. Here's the picture (before the photo-shopping to make us look like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie):
At the Noiseland office, I also noticed CDs from local bluegrass artists like The High 48s and Becky Schlegel plus one from our friends 'The Roe Family Singers', that we had just bought at the latest 416 club concert at the Cedar Cultural Center. We're in good company ;-)
Andrew is preparing a contract and estimate: Dan is going to start with a mockup of the cover. We'll get in touch with David Gardner from Magneto to send over the final master. There will be PDFs, feedback and tweaking going over email, but once the final design is set,the time for production will be about two weeks. We will definitely have our first CD out before the snow melts!
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