Album

The Soundpapered Album among albums (a mock up)

In 2023, I’m working on the Soundpapered Album, the book about live drawing live music:
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It’s about time: You’ve seen the Soundpapered work online, in galleries, in Times Square and across New York City, at the Apple store, on Grammy winners’ promotional animations and films, on Okayplayer, in the UK jazz press, and much ‘liked’ by fans, followers and the featured musicians on Instagram. Next, this book!

The Album’s design, production and distribution depends on my sustained efforts and your support. You’re invited to help make this happen:

Ten years of Live drawing/Live music
This 100-page project anthology will feature the best drawings, animations and previously unseen photographs from a decade of Soundpapered’s live from 9(pm) to 5(am) archive.

The Album will be an original, illustrated survey of lost legends, enduring elders and rising stars of contemporary Black American and British social music: Pharoah Sanders, Chick Corea, Trugoy the Dove, Lou Donaldson, George Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Gregory Porter, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Julius Rodriguez and many more.

A record among records
Formatted 12″ square, it will match the dimensions of an LP, the Album will belong not on a bookshelf but in your vinyl collection, the sleeve notes to accompany the albums, a visual record alongside your records.

Fun-loving genius
Documenting this obsessive project in short essays, interview excerpts, anecdotes and quotes will bring to life the context and purpose of social drawing, and remind anyone who has ever been the audience why showing up to gigs is not only affirming but essential.

What’s the cash for?
Designing, producing, promoting and distributing a book takes time, effort, talent and the right resources.
I am aiming to fund time/resources to:
Design a full prototype of the book
Cover legal fees (image rights, IP)
Pitch to publishers and/or do the work to self-publish
Print a first run of books at high quality
Work on/pay for help with promotion and (if self-publishing) distribution
Develop promotional content (podcasts, post-publication pitches, merch)

Contribute today!
Contribute to the Go Fund Me for the Soundpapered Album here:
You’ll receive a credit in the book for doing so.
The fund is in US $ but you can still contribute from abroad.

To contribute in kind (lend skills, equipment, time, talent or other!) and/or join the list to receive very occasional emailed updates on the book’s progress: Email hello@soundpapered.com.

To tell your friends to contribute, simply direct them to this page (soundpapered.com/album)

Thank you for your support, let’s make this happen.