Cover Art Candy: Episode 7

Cover Art Candy: Episode 7

Every week, various eye-catching designs for the cover art for songs, EPs and albums by Nigerian gospel artistes will be showcased on this blog.  The idea is to highlight and appreciate the hard work and creativity of graphic artistes, illustrators and designers who work behind the scenes towards the success of each project.  

Here is the 7th Edition.  The links at the very bottom will take you to the pages where you can download these songs.

Let me know which covers you like.  Enjoy!

1. FLO - Sanctioned (CD Cover)

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This Friday's Free Downloads | Featuring: Obiora Obiwon, Michael Abdul, Groovement Minis3, Jimmy D Psalmist

This Friday's Free Downloads | Featuring: Obiora Obiwon, Michael Abdul, Groovement Minis3, Jimmy D Psalmist

How have you been gbadun-ing the month of July?  I thank God for bringing us all to the second half of this year, and pray that we will all be here to celebrate the end of the year too in Jesus name.

Today's free downloads have one thing in common: they are all dance-worthy tracks.  So before you even click download, I suggest you put on your dancing shoes and get ready.

Ready? Oya, let's go!

1. Obiora Obiwon - Testify featuring 

Michael Abdul

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Weekly Eye-Catching Designs No. 3: Cover Art for Songs, Albums, EPs

Weekly Eye-Catching Designs No. 3: Cover Art for Songs, Albums, EPs

This week's cover artwork are from 5 singles, 1 Official Video, I Album and 1 Theme Song.  There are audio and video links to some of these songs, and of course, free downloads as well.  Enjoy the buffet!

1. Davis King - Gbeyo

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Weekly Eye-Catching Designs No. 1: Cover Art for Songs, Albums, EPs

Weekly Eye-Catching Designs No. 1: Cover Art for Songs, Albums, EPs

I have silently observed a trend over the last couple of years: the cover art designs for music albums, singles, EPs, name it, have gotten progressively more ... spectacular! They have evolved from being eyesores (mostly) to being more appealing, eye-catching, and generally more creative.

So, I have decided to showcase a few of these eye-catching designs every week for more inspiration and to hopefully, get you to appreciate the hard work of the graphic designers who work behind the scenes.

My intention is to keep this as simple as possible, and that means I will be including the cover art and the download links to the music.  That's it.

And now, let's get started with the 1st Edition in this series (in no particular order):

1. Sam Jamz - Ndola Mi Featuring Marpe

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Original Photocopy | Featured Artiste: Vivien Stephen

Original Photocopy | Featured Artiste: Vivien Stephen

[Picture from HERE]

First off, Congratulations to 9jaFoodie on moving to what I call “the next level.” She has moved to www.9jaFoodie.com so please check out her new website and support her as she starts out on this new phase.  And now off to today’s business. *clears throat*

For the last couple of years, Nigerian music in general has been going through some sort of renaissance, and since gospel music no dey carry last, it has also been part of that process.  Parties, weddings and other social functions have noticeably reflected this trend as there are considerably a lot more Nigerian songs played at these events than used to be the case in the past.  I can’t really pin-point what series of events led to this, but I am definitely loving it.  Nowadays, it is so common to hear songs sang completely in pidgin and/or another Nigerian language.  In fact, that seems to be the winning recipe for the more popular love songs.  It is like all of sudden we woke up and discovered that our culture (which inevitably includes language) is something worth exporting, so to speak.  I can’t really explain what happened to me too, but I know that all of a sudden I pretty much lost interest in music that did not have that Naija flavor and have even come to see it as the standard.

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Personalized [Featured Artiste: 'Motara]

Personalized [Featured Artiste: 'Motara]

[Picture from HERE]

Have you ever received a gift that was specially crafted for you or at least “seemed” like it was specially made for you because it was somehow personalized? It may have been a gift that had your name engraved on it or something that was literally made from scratch for you alone like a painting / drawing of yourself.  If you have, then maybe you know the warm, fuzzy feeling (LOL) you get from that gesture (if you haven’t, “Klismas” is around the corner, so you know what to do *wink*)

Thinking of personalized gifts made me think of the names of God, i.e. the names we use to describe God.  In a lot of songs, we tend to hear the same names repeated over and over again e.g. Ubangiji, Alagbada ina, Alawotele orun, Igwe, Abasi, etc.  I don’t even know what some of these names mean, but I embrace them as long as I know they are somehow ascribing glory to God.  So what names do you personally use to describe God?  I think your answer would reflect the way you view God and your own personal experience of who God is to you.  I also believe that you can create a special name for God that no one else uses and that can help to build intimacy in your own private worship life.

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