astoria: 7" sampler

The DOOMED TO FAIL demoAllan Haverholm

AstoriaAllan Haverholm

AstoriaA rock album in graphic form

Slow Tan

1. Black Sabbat

2. h

Cerebration

3. Engine C

it4.

y (Kirby Dialysis)

Great O

ld One

5. s

Ariadne

6. These Fjell Veins

7. O

ur Lady of Centurie

8. s

Passio9.

n

Politic10.

s

Resistanse11.

n

Erotic Funera12.

l

Dry Spot

13.

Slow Tan

Slow Tan

An exploration of primitive concepts of nature, and also the Grauballeman’s monologue on gradually turning into leather.

Will eventually be linocut.

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

A pictorial interpretation of Black Sabbath, the song, by Black Sabbath, the band.

The visuals are especially based on the evocative intro and the thunder-ing first chords. The liner notes were a help, too!

Still, the temptation to make Black Sab-bath in watercolors, without actually using black, was too great.

Cerebration

Cerebration

When dreams go astray, who’s to say what can happen?

Cerebration is a tribute to the advantages of emotion over rationality; about feeding the brain with love on wings.

The spreads are conceived as screenprints.

Engine City

Kirby Dialysis

A giant robot fighting a huge superhero over the ruins of a great city; and the strange microcosmos that is at the inner workings of the robot.

Here is an unabashed salute to the works of Jack Kirby, and the floppy magazines of the ‘70s.

Ariadne

GreatOld

Ones

A tribute to three of the greatest quacks of the 20th century; HP Lovecraft, Charles Fort, and Erich von Däniken.

Each have given shape to a unique vision of the world - although often contest-able ones - and this song is an attempt to triangulate some different vision from the three.

Ariadne

An exploration of pre-alphabetical society, wondering how representations of objects became the linear writing system that has shaped the way Modern Man thinks.

fjell

These Veins

Our Lady

of Centuries

Interpreting Nostradamus has never been an easy task, but inter-preting his Centuries graphically, and at face value, word by word might at least be a new take on the subject.

The page compositions will be inspired by Art Concrète, us-ing a few, distinct signal colors. On a panel-level, more detailed motives focus on Nostradamus’ many animal symbols.

As the original work reflects itself more than actual events past or present, “Our Lady” wil mostly draw parallels to other Astoria songs.

fjell

These Veins

Black metal insists on being “off” in any sense, culturally as well as musically, and in adapting that ethos for visualization, the semantics of high-paced shonen manga occured to me.

The black metallers are going to have my hide for that.

The final song should have a xeroxed fanzine aesthetic, black/white and a single, metallic blue spot color.

Passion

“Passion” is a methodical analysis of the mythical matter on which the biblical crucifiction builds.

To underline the factuality of the song, the visuals are based on IKEA manuals.

PoliticsSubtitled “...is a plural noun”, this will be a jam session with several artists.

The base motive is a row of ultra-close texture studies meant to serve as the low-er-frequency drone of a distorted bass.

Resistansen

A party in an illegal underground bar runs amuck, and the drunken debauchery claims its victim -- or victims?

Based on a waltz by Norwegian band Kaizer’s Orchestra, the rhythm is interpreted in part by negative spaces that mold the im-age area.

Drawn in carpenter’s pencil and charcoal pens

erotic

fu

nerral

Cartoony melancholy, a “Death and the Maiden”

standard.

In the final version, each square panel will be a glyph,

or character, in a computer font, allowing the user to

“write” his/her own eROTic FUNeral.

erotic

fu

nerral

Dry spot

About desire and release.

A mixture of three parallel narratives, commenting and inter-weaving with each other: Each movement of the piece in a different visual style.

AstoriaAllan Haverholm

Allan Haverholm is a Danish

cartoonist living in Sweden.

After finishing his debut

graphic novel, he decided

that he was fed up with

words and stories, and con-

cocted the Astoria concept

to cover for his antipathies.

Astoria

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