I completely recreated and restored the original cassette artwork for Alice Coltrane's Turiya Sings – and envisioned what a deluxe LP reissue might look like. An album that unfortunately has never seen wide release, it was only available officially on cassette through Coltrane’s ashram in the 1980s. These originals are extremely rare and sell for hundreds of dollars. The only way to hear this music is via distorted, muffled bootlegs circulating online. The artwork itself exists only as a compressed 600px .JPEG. To recreate it, I identified the typefaces, re-typeset the entire contents exactingly (letter by letter when needed), and completely redrew the custom Alice Coltrane wordmark. I also sourced and retouched a higher quality version of the cover photo to match the original. From there, I expanded on the visual language of the original J-Card to create what would be my ideal LP reissue on Impulse Records (who issued an alternate, beautiful, but significantly stripped down version of these songs a few years ago). The original master recordings are apparently lost, but maybe one day they will surface. This artwork is NOT available for public use or bootlegs. This was just a way for me to connect with this music that I love so much.
Personal project.