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Photography by Frank Bale (cover) & Eryk Pawlik (back cover)

"Witch‘s Hand" is a collaborative split EP by Rhode Island, USA based folk musician Allysen Callery and Dortmund, Germany based stoner/doom metal band Mother Bear. The record is folk-horror centered, so the visual inspiration came from 1960s and 1970s occult movies. As Mother Bear's drummer I was happy to continue the design for my band at this first on-label release.

The releases‘ title is hand-drawn in the style of vintage movie posters and the theme "hand" continues throughtout the whole design. In addition to a gatefold-collage consisting of AI generated folk horror imagery and photos of the artists featuring various hand images, historic hand illustrations appear on the CD, the additional sticker and the lyric sheet.

Giant Crow is a hamburg based alternative country and rock band and the successor of Raindance Kid. The ladder already appeared on a soundtrack CD released on cosirecords, so the small boutique label decided to release their first record under their new moniker.

The namesake, a giant crow, appears on different parts of the album artwork. It was important to deliver a unique artwork, that does not feel or look like a record by Wovenhand or other, very american folk-rooted US-records, so the design focused more on the rougher backgrounds of the band – Shoegaze, 90s Alternative Rock, Gothic influences. To achive such, the whole appearance is a bit rough, washy, and reduced to two colours (except for a sparkle of orange on the cover).

Coming with a lyric sheet, the semi-transparent vinyl comes in an inside-out printed sleeve, which enhances the haptic, country-like feel of the packaging.

13 artists covering 13 songs by the 13th Floor Elevators & their mastermind Roky Erickson. The briefing the label Gruselton gave me for "I Think of Demons": it's a tribute sampler that should look like a tribute. As usual for Gruselthon, it should come with gadgets. As the first vinyl LP I bought was the Elevator's debut, this was a very special project.

While the cover artwork works as a collage of the first two records by The 13th Floor Elevators – the sun from the "Easter Everywhere" cover finds it's way as well as the eyes of the debut, which also lends the color scheme. As Erickson somehow had a faible for pyramids, they also play a significant role in the artwork and as a gadget there is a build-your-own-pyramid craft sheet. The pyramid / egyptian / preastronautics theme continues on the inside of the gatefold CD cover and nicely fits the overall pulpy atmosphere of all Gruselthon releases so far.

In addition to the craft-sheet there is also a simple, yet terrifying sticker and a small portrait print featuring the sampler's credits included.

For the limited edition vinyl EP "Oscillations" by Berlin based electronic musician KELMHO.

Design & Layout: Florian Grass / Kabine 7
Photography & Artwork: Caro Tolkemit

"Lost Children" brings together 12 home recordings by US-American folk musician Allysen Callery. As Allysen is actually more rooted in punk and goth rock than in folk and the recordings are all very raw and direct (sometimes with the jingling of dishes in the background), the entire artwork was designed by hand and not on the computer. With printed photos of Allysen's children, a typewriter, scissors and glue, the artwork was created in the style of 80s punk posters and fanzines. In addition to the CD and sleeve, a sticker was created, the motif of which was also used as a T-shirt print.