Corin Curschellas carried out reside for the primary time 50 years in the past and shortly revealed her versatile skills. A unprecedented retrospective now offers a brand new take a look at a inventive part of the Graubünden singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and actress.
Anybody releasing a 4-CD field set in an age of streaming, playlists and TikTok wants good causes to take action. The Tourbo Music label has discovered them and presents an distinctive field set with “Collecziuns: Her Songs 1990-2010+2022”. Along with the 4 CDs, the fastidiously crafted field additionally comprises two stylishly designed booklets illustrated with lovely photographs containing all of the track lyrics, liner notes and tributes from 26 personalities.
We have been fascinated by this fantastically realized assortment and had a chat with Clemens Schedler from Bureau für konktrete Gestaltung in Vienna, who was in cost for the Design, with the intention to discover out all about it.
Idea & Design: what was behind selecting the colour pallet, the design of the books? What are you able to share relating to the story of the mission?
Corin Curschellas, born in 1956 in Chur [Graubünden, Switzerland], spent greater than thirty years transferring within the worldwide waters and up to date currents of jazz within the broadest sense. She lived in Zurich, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Vienna, Paris and New York earlier than emigrating again to Switzerland round 15 years in the past. We had recognized one another for a number of years by way of mutual associates. Out of respect for her character and her particular musical and inventive weight, I approached her relatively cautiously, even a bit of shyly. My pleasure flickered all of the extra enthusiastically when Corin requested me to design a retrospective of 60 songs on 4 CDs to mark her fiftieth stage anniversary.
I don’t see myself as an artist, however as an utilized designer and, above all, as an attentive craftsman. I don’t need to add my very own will to kind or design to my work. I discover and hear to what’s already there by way of content material, tales, contexts and developments, texts and pictures. From this, an acceptable and, above all, coherent unity of “content material and kind” often unfolds fairly naturally.
I don’t see myself as an artist, however as an utilized designer and, above all, as an attentive craftsman.
Our concrete collaboration due to this fact started with days spent collectively. I visited Corin Curschellas in her studio in Rueun, immersed myself in her biographical topography, in her private, inventive and musical universe. We rummaged collectively by way of her archives, by way of folders and packing containers [treasure chests] filled with reminiscences in images and slides. We wandered collectively by way of lifetimes, paperwork, reminiscences, goddesses and the world. On one of many cabinets, I observed stacks of sq. stretcher frames – meditative work from the COVID lockdown instances. Corin calls them “Countless Pulsations” and waved them off, however I insisted that we take a look at these seventy or so photos collectively. From the dozen we chosen, the 4 “finalists” ended up because the entrance covers of the CD sleeves/cardboard pockets…
The 60 songs on 4 CDs have been set. Mathias Rüegg curated the choice and order, in addition to the naming of this “lifetime legacy” [Peter Rüedi, Germanist and music journalist].
It was additionally clear that we didn’t need an industrial multibox, that standardized plastic container with inserted, wire-stapled or glue-bound brochures in miniature format.
The 4 CDs have been manufactured industrially in a easy cardboard sleeve. The 60 track lyrics in Rumantsch [Rhaeto-Romanic], Swiss dialect, German, English and French have been used to create the 208-page e-book »HER SONGS — from close to and much | da cor | unüberhörbar | pour toujours«. The choice of contributions, feedback and articles resulted within the 80-page e-book »ECHOS — reminiscences | quotes | liner notes«. Each books are sure in Swiss brochures. And since we saved speaking a couple of “jewelry field” and a “treasure chest”, it was apparent to place every part in a field.
Since we saved speaking a couple of “jewelry field” and a “treasure chest”, it was apparent to place every part in a field.
The photographs from Corin Curschellas’ eventful life got here from all analogue factors of the compass and plenty of nations — from the non-public archives of artists and associates, from the collections of establishments and from photographers. These images movement by way of each books in chronological vividness. Complementing the “massive vast world” are autochthonous panorama images by photographer Jaromir Kreiliger. Nearly invisibly, {a photograph} of Corin in Paris surrounds the duvet of “HER SONGS”, whereas the duvet of “ECHOS” reveals the snow-covered peak of the Blackter Flüe [2,320 meters]: an analogy to Corin Curschellas as a traveler who all the time carries her roots with/inside her.