Design & Art Direction for Stan Douglas: Luanda Kinshasa

We designed the artwork for Stan Douglas's fantastic soul jazz LP in 2016.

Luanda-Kinshasa was released on double heavyweight vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve that references classic Impulse! designs, and features the essay The Eye of the Trumpet by German author Diedrich Diederichsen.

Luanda-Kinshasa is Stan Douglas’ vibrant depiction of a fictional ’70s jazz-funk band getting down in the studio.

Set in Columbia Records’ legendary New York studio The Church which has been painstakingly restored down to the last ashtray, the cast of stellar musicians led by jazz pianist Jason Moran, cycle through jazz, funk and afro-beat motifs in joyous cohesion, a vision of rhythmic unity that grooves like the era’s most important work.