Corin Curschellas carried out stay for the primary time 50 years in the past and shortly revealed her versatile abilities. A rare retrospective now gives a brand new take a look at a artistic 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 incorporates two stylishly designed booklets illustrated with stunning photographs containing all of the music lyrics, liner notes and tributes from 26 personalities.
We had been fascinated by this superbly realized assortment and had a chat with Clemens Schedler from Bureau für konktrete Gestaltung in Vienna, who was in cost for the Design, in an effort 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 concerning the story of the challenge?
Corin Curschellas, born in 1956 in Chur [Graubünden, Switzerland], spent greater than thirty years transferring within the worldwide waters and modern 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 via mutual buddies. Out of respect for her character and her particular musical and inventive weight, I approached her moderately cautiously, even a little bit 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 type or design to my work. I discover and pay attention 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 type” normally 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 via her archives, via folders and packing containers [treasure chests] stuffed with recollections in images and slides. We wandered collectively via lifetimes, paperwork, recollections, goddesses and the world. On one of many cabinets, I seen stacks of sq. stretcher frames – meditative work from the COVID lockdown occasions. Corin calls them “Infinite 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 had 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 had been manufactured industrially in a easy cardboard sleeve. The 60 music lyrics in Rumantsch [Rhaeto-Romanic], Swiss dialect, German, English and French had been used to create the 208-page guide »HER SONGS — from close to and much | da cor | unüberhörbar | pour toujours«. The collection of contributions, feedback and articles resulted within the 80-page guide »ECHOS — recollections | quotes | liner notes«. Each books are certain in Swiss brochures. And since we stored speaking a few “jewelry field” and a “treasure chest”, it was apparent to place all the things in a field.
Since we stored speaking a few “jewelry field” and a “treasure chest”, it was apparent to place all the things in a field.
The pictures from Corin Curschellas’ eventful life got here from all analogue factors of the compass and lots of international locations — from the personal archives of artists and buddies, from the collections of establishments and from photographers. These images circulation via each books in chronological vividness. Complementing the “massive broad world” are autochthonous panorama images by photographer Jaromir Kreiliger. Virtually 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.