João Clemente‘s album Ipupiara for Petcord has a story of its own: It had the very unfortunate fate of somehow slipping through the cracks in the midst of a sea of trouble, which led to a longer than usual period between submission and actual release. Additionally, it was difficult to reach the artist since he has no Internet connection readily available. Given the circumstances, we tried our best to come close to a suitable cover design and Petcord, for the first time in its existence, had to take the risk of using a cover the artist may not even know of. Perhaps this led to a fail safe approach without too many experiments.

The cover is based on a photography I took a couple of years ago and was inspired by an alternative but rejected draft of an earlier Petcord release. Several drafts were tried and errored and even though Marco could not find fault with any of those, it was me who wasn’t too happy. I could not even name the actual issue, just that I felt it did not match to the music and appeared like a half-hearted attempt at creating a cover. Luckily, I remember that old draft and used it as a base for this album and modified minor aspects like colouring or its typography.