Maris S.: hnd

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It's always great when friends from Tallinn visit Tartu 'cause it doesn't happen very often.

My thoughts on this live?

Firstly, HND should play more gigs as I could tell they hadn't been doing that for a while.

The energy level was really high and it kind of gave them a new vibe in my eyes.

(Which is a good thing, of course.)

Secondly, I'm starting to see some action in Püssirohu kelder again.

Now, if we could get more people going to Püss to enjoy the music and not just the infamous beer, Tartu would become just a little bit more alive.

When I finally got to Tallinn that evening,

I had only 30 minutes before the show was supposed to start.

As the bus station and Saku Suurhall ain't exactly neighbours and the weather was a real bitch,

I arrived somewhere in the middle.

I threw my coat somewhere next to the stage and tried to get what I could.

It was nice to see the guys, though.

December has arrived and I'm busy as a bee

but I promise -the Scorpions pictures will come soon.

Take care!

Started working with the guys back in 2012 shooting them in Scotland Yard. I already knew their next album was going to be an acoustic one, so I took the pictures with that in mind.

(You can check 'em out HERE and HERE )

I also designed their singles "Kui sa vaid saad" and made some changes in band's website.

Preparations for the design started in the summer, when I came to an idea to put a messed up acoustic guitar on the cover. With the help of social media, I found an old fucked-up 6-stringer and slowly started to destroy it. Breaking the guitar's neck was a lot harder than I had imagined.

A painful thing to do, also, as I'm treating my own guitar with such a respect.

After messing up the guitar pretty bad, I let it to rot in the rain for the summer.

From time to time, I scratched it with all kinds of tools and decided to grow some flowers out it it.

So this is how we got the cover.

Everything came together during a month of insane work in November.

By then, I had decided I was only going to use the elements I had designed, photographed or

made myself. It was a fun project involving lots of different techniques.

(For example experimenting with ink and coffee, which you can see HERE

and some tablet-raping to create hand written fonts and add details.)

In the end, only things in the design NOT made by me, was a band logo

and 2 or 3 fonts I had to use to make some of the text readable.

What I did: