Music and art— VCUarts Qatar’s new vinyl album ticks both boxes
The Peninsula
Doha: Music buffs and art connoisseurs can look forward to a limited-edition collectible to add to their personal collection – a first-of-its-kind vinyl double album titled ‘Zekreet’.
The album was released by ‘Sonic Jeel’, an artist collective made up of students, faculty and alumni from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university. The eye-catching artworks for the outer and inner covers include a 3D animation, while the vinyl records featuring 21 audio tracks, are in translucent, decorated shades.
The albums were launched at a pop-up stall at Studio 7 in Msheireb Downtown Doha (MDD), last week. The striking designs for the covers were created by ‘water with water’, an experimental graphic publishing initiative, and will be on public sale at Studio 7, and at ‘water with water’s website https://waterwithwater.com/