SYNESTHESIA
A podcast about the creatives who shape the aesthetics of music. We chat to the minds behind the record sleeves, videos, photoshoots and stylings of the freshest new sounds, exploring how contemporary culture, fashion, illustration and design reflect and enhance the musical experience. SYNESTHESIA brings to the foreground the artists behind the artists, acknowledging the essential role they play in defining a musician’s visual identity.
Episodes
34 episodes
Imogene Strauss (Season 2, Ep. 5)
Imogene Strauss is a creative director and set designer from New York. She's now based in LA and in the past 10 years she's collaborated with artists such as Blood Orange, Clairo, and Charli XCX. She takes us through the vision behind Charli XC...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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38:00
Jeremy Cole & Marco Grey (Season 2, Ep. 4)
Kenyan award winning movie-maker and creative director Jeremy Ngatho Cole and photographer and creative director Marco Grey are the founders of YOUT studio. Since 2019, they’ve been working with some of the best talents stemming from Lond...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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33:44
Pooneh Ghana (Season 2, Ep. 3)
Pooneh Ghana is a music photographer from Austin (TX) who's currently based in Los Angeles. In the past 10 years she’s been featured in all the most influential music and lifestyle magazines in the world. She takes us through her most important...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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30:38
Luis Perez (Season 2, Ep. 2)
Luis Perez is a visual artist and cinematographer who, in the past 20 years, has worked in movies and directed videos for the most influential hip hop, r'n'b and pop artists of our century. He tells us about how growing up in the Caribbean has ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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29:58
Robert Beatty (Season 2, Ep. 1)
Robert Beatty is an artist and musician based in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. We talk about his background, coming from the alternative radio and noise scene of the early 00's. Then we delve into his long lasting creative partnership with Oneohtri...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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36:42
Extra 3 – Qlowsky & Harry Steel
Qlowski are a London-based band that just released their debut album "Quale Futuro?" (What Future?), a music manifesto that conveys a poetic and compelling vision about the past, present and future of our communities. It's a story of struggle, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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15:25
Extra 2 – Alek Hidell & Johnny FKN Ryall
Marco Meloni (aka Johnny FKN Ryall) is the art director behind the visual identity of Sardinian composer and producer Alek Hidell's latest album "Ravot". The album was inspired by the real story of a man from the village of Buggerru whose life ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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16:08
Extra 1 – BLUEM
Chiara Floris, aka BLUEM, is an artist based in London. She just released her debut EP “Notte” ("night" in Italian), which stands out for its visual identity that celebrates Sardinia’s landscape and ancestral aesthetics, re-framed through...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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26:37
25 – Raissa Pardini
Raissa Pardini is a visual designer and art director based in Glasgow. The V&A just added to their permanent collection some of the original posters she designed for artists such as Squid, Idles, The Orielles, Snapped Ankles, Pond, Damo Suz...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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33:10
24 – Sophy Hollington
Sophy Hollington is an illustrator, visual artist and guitarist (she plays for the band Novella) based in Brighton. Her relief prints, created using the process of lino-cutting, portray mystic, hazy universes, touching topics such as meteoric f...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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30:46
23 – The Rest
Lewis Levi and Alex Motlhabane, aka The Rest, are the creative duo behind 99% of Slowthai’s videos and visual productions. They tell us about their teenage years, when the three of them were experimenting with sounds and visuals in Slowthai's b...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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34:24
22 – Nejc Prah
Nejc Prah is a graphic designer and art director who’s worked with artists such as Frank Ocean, Gillian Moss, and brands like Boiler room. After graduating from Yale, he spent a few years at Bloomberg Businessweek in New York. In 2019 he moved ...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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29:08
21 – Emma Shore
Emma Shore is a graphic designer and art director who has worked for influential institutions and brands in the arts and music field, such as the National Theatre and Boiler Room in London. Since 2018, she's taken over the role of art director ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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31:12
20 – Marquee Marauders Club
Jacob Adam Alvarez is the creative behind “Marquee Marauders Club”. He is a young angeleno who’s gained reputation among music lovers and artists for his music-related bootleg action figures, featuring some of the biggest acts of our times – an...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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29:43
19 – Riley Blakeway
Riley Blakeway is an Australian award-winning filmmaker and photographer. His films have screened at festivals around the world and have been featured in leading international newspapers and magazines. We chat about his collaboration ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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30:55
18 – Weirdcore
Weirdcore is an audiovisual artist who has created designs and animations for acts such as Aphex Twin, Arca, M.I.A, Radiohead, Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Oneohtrix Point Never and other game changers in the world of contemporary music. We ...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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37:44
17 – Ayo Fagbemi (Play Nice LDN)
Ayomikun Fagbemi is the co-founder of “Play Nice”, a “creative studio building intersections between communities”, a cultural/social enterprise that incarnates the diversity of London's creative scene. We talk about “The New Rave”, their...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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32:53
16 – Jason Jägel
Jason Jägel is a painter, educator, and commissioned public artist. He's been living in SF for 30 years, collaborating with cutting edge artists such as Madlib and MF Doom. As for the latter, Jason designed the iconic cover of his 2004 al...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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40:29
15 – Michael Leuffen & Philipp Maiburg
Michael Leuffen and Philipp Maiburg are Heads of Music at Carhartt WIP. We chat about their careers before landing a job at one of the most influential streetwear brands in the world. Then we talk over the past, present and future of Carhartt's...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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50:25
14 – Gaurab Thakali
Gaurab Thakali, illustrator and artist based in London, is one of the most influential visual interpreters of South-London's contemporary jazz scene. We chat about his upbringing in Nepal; his coming of age in London; his discovery of jazz cult...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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32:31
13 – Samutaro Part 2
In the second half of our journey throughout the history of denim in music, contemporary culture living encyclopaedia Samutaro takes us from the 80's hip hop explosion in NYC to nowadays' trap and pop icons. He rates quintessential record sleev...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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39:22
13 – Samutaro Part 1
Samutaro is an influential denim expert and consultant as well as a contemporary culture living encyclopaedia. He takes us on a journey through the history of denim in music, giving a lectio magistralis on the 70 year old t...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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43:06
12 – Danny Miller
Danny Miller is the founder and creative director of High Tide, a NYC creative agency that has launched “High Tide Sound System”, a series of Spotify playlists that feature great tunes but most importantly super tasty, very well curated covers ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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33:27
11 – Aaron Lowell Denton
Aaron Lowell Denton is an artist and designer whose distinctive retro-infused visual artworks have gained a significant reputation in the contemporary music industry. He has collaborated with artists like Tame Impala, Devendra Banhart, The War ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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38:30
10 – Stefano Libertini Protopapa
Stefano Libertini Protopapa is an anti-racist, queer, creative director based in Milan. Along with producer Pierpaolo Moschino, he founded "Fluidostudio", a new creative enterprise that aims to launch and establish young artists from unde...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:58
