Basement Sessions OG photo shoot and alt cover-art

This was the final product, but there were several shots from the photo shoot and a few drafts of LP covers before we ended up with what you see.  In my opinion I think the final result was AWESOME, but I'm always interested in a little behind the scenes info on movies, music etc.  (so here's a little bit behind what made the cover)

A good friend of mine, Christina Klucarich took the pics shortly before I left Seattle and moved to Indy. She came through and over an afternoon one weekend she took color and black & white pics in my basement studio.  Within a couple days I developed the pics and then sent a select few to my man Dan Dejos of Juxism to design a cover. 

We moved to Indy and I began working on the 2nd and 3rd version/mixdown of the album before it finally got mastered.  As I was focusing on post production I felt that I needed to do something else than just work on mixes and that's when I technically began really working on "Revisionist History," the untitled LP & the "Dub Styles" projects.  I will not name names, but the project hit a HUGE financial snag when an emcee I used to look up to and have flyers up on my wall took a sum of money to record a verse for "Revisionist History" and fell off the face of the earth.  (so to speak)  He even changed his cell phone number.  (what a douche)  This ended up putting the LP back about 6 months or more, but all in all I wanted to have a release party in my hometown of Seattle anyway. 

As the months passed, I got the LP mastered by LROX at Redsecta, who did an amazing job, and Dan developed a few drafts of the LP. Ultimately, I chose the version that you see above and in the layout labeled "final draft," but here are the alternate album covers that were designed for the album.  Originally I was going to have a digipak layout/packaging, but as we were facing a time crunch and our budget, we went with a regular CD tray layout. 

Alt cover layout

Alt digipak cover

Alt digipak cover

Final version

Alt covers

As you can tell the covers are mostly variations of the same pic and I really dug that.  What was surprising was that the pic that Dan chose was not the one I thought he was going to select.  (BUT, I'm not a graphic designer and I don't have his vision when it comes to these things, so there you go) 

Once the LP cover was finished, I sent it off to get pressed and left for Seattle.  The rest is a cliched sentence that I will not utter.

I hope you dig the alternative cover art and photos to see what ultimately developed into "Basement Sessions."

Peace

Dawhud