R&P ALBUM COVERS AND POSTERS

Dear Readers,
During my research on the Eastern European Punk Culture I was wondering what conventions I could use for the poster and the album cover of my music video by Dubioza Kolektiv-USA. My Research began with one of my favourite bands Dubioza Kolektiv.

Dubioza Kolektiv ALBUM COVER

• Really simplistic for a Punk/SKA band 
• They have used two colour: black and yellow 

a) the black colour is a symbolism of the underground punk/ska music.
b) the yellow colour can be suggested to be the colour of the rise. The band will get out from the underground and it will be available for the Mass audience.

• The band used typical street conventions. The cover looks like it is made with graffity.

• The band has been illustrated in the cover.  

Another popular Eastern European Punk band is the band called CONTROL. It is a Bulgarian band and they have been on stage more than 35 years. After the end of the communist regim in Bulgaria they have become the face of the traditional punk Eastern culture. This is their first album covers.

CONTROL (trans. КОНТРОЛ)-OOOUUU BABY! (trans. ЛЕЛЕ КАКО!)

• The band has enterily cartooned their album cover. On the right side the audience could notice the traditional look of the punk societies. Their style of clothes can be really colourful. 
• The album cover looks really rebelious.
• The look of the album is really messy (stereotypical for the punk culture)
• All the songs can be seen on the right side of the album cover. (verticly positioned )

A band called Gogol Bordello is a band created in America by a "Gypsy'' Ukrainian. The bands members come from all over the world ( Asia, Europe, North and South America and Africa ). Their songs consist different traditional Eastern European Rythms. The band genre is known as "Gypsy Punk". This is one of their album covers.

GOGOL BORDELLO - SUPER TARANTA!

• The band has used different colours to represents it's style to the adience. 
• The band has used different acrobats to show how artistic gypsy culture is. 
• The band hasn't focus on a simple cover because of the genre of music they perform.
• The people behind the lead singer look happy and satisfied from what the band performs. 
• The way the performers are dressed is a traditional gypsy style of clothing. ( striped trousers, boots.) 
• The band aims to look a little bit like a circus performers. Their aim is to make a show which will be liked by the audience.

The last band which in my opinion will help me with making my own Digipack cover is a Bosnian band called "S.A.R.S." They are relatevely new band of 21st century. They also focus on a stereotypical Eastern European motives by using traditional music instruments of their folklore such as accordion, trompets and saxophones. The cover I will focus will be one of their first release albums called "Petspektiva"

S.A.R.S. - Perspektiva

• As the audience could notice the cover is focused on the black colour. It symbolises the culture of the underground music which was S.A.R.S at the beginningof their career. 

• On this cover albym the only visible face is of the lead singer. 
• Тhe name of the album means "Perspective" and is coloured in red colour with a typical punk street fond. 
• The location of  the album is in a tunnel. It has encoded meaning which is that with this album they will come out from the underground music world. 

To conclude, I will aim to use conventions on each of these album covers for my Digipack. I will focus mainly on the colourful motives because I the music I am using is aiming people to be positive and happy.