A little while back I had the distinct pleasure of working on a two-day shoot with friend and Grammy-nominated organist Cameron Carpenter. The focus of the shoot was to create a number of striking image options for the covers of his soon-to-be-released double album, Cameron Live!
The CD portion of the set contains a live concert recording from The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City, while the accompanying DVD sees Cameron filmed in high definition while performing in studio, and takes you on tour with concert footage from Berlin and New York.
Cameron Live! is now available for preorder over at Concord Music Group, where you can listen to samples and read a suitably in-depth and impassioned preview of the album that ends with these thoughts on the dual covers:
For the DVD, the cover is suitably outrageous: Noel Coward meets Janis Joplin in her backstage dressing room (actually, Carpenter photographed in his New York East Village apartment). Flip the album over to find the other front, in stark contrast: Carpenter in jeans, silver boots and a t-shirt that proclaims MUSIC IS IT, reminding the listener that despite his attention to detail on the outside, it’s what they see and hear on the discs inside that matters.
