KARISHMA D’ MELLO
MUSIC THEMED CROSSWORD
Across:
1) Crafters of string instruments, 17 th – 18 th century
Italy 8) Instrument; national symbol of Ireland 11) Rush’ s Geddy ___ 12) Series of eight notes 13) Consistent judge on American series –“ The Voice” 14) Asia’ s first independent music awards, abbrv. 16) Hip Hop artist 2 ___ 17) American indie-pop band 18)“ Summertime sadness” hit maker, ___ Del Rey 21) Friedrich Schiller’ s“___ to joy” sung in the final movement to Beethoven’ s Ninth Symphony 22) Jonas brother 24) Nirvana song 26) Goo Goo Dolls’ soundtrack for“ City of Angels” 28) Popular Music Channel 29) America’ s African instrument 31) Higher in pitch by one semitone 33)“ We all live in a ____ submarine” 35) Former drummer for Avenged Sevenfold“ The __” 36)“____ the world”, Imagine Dragons( 2, 3, 2) 38)“ I’ m gonna fight em off, a seventh nation ___ couldn’ t hold me back” 39) Popular English artist, Sheeran 41) Rock band Kings of ____ 42) Twisted Sister lead vocalist
Down:
1) Less commonly known as: Saul Hudson 2) Singer / Songwriter ___ Bruner 3) Colbie Cailat’ s second hit single 4) Country musician, Parton 5) Italian composer Antonio Lucio who wrote“ The Four
Seasons”, 7) One hit wonder Vanilla ___ 8) Jewish folk song ___ Nagila 9) Swedish Musician Tim Bergling 10) Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe, Mile Mills, together 15) Kreator’ s“___ run” 19)“ The bad boys from Boston” 23) Yusuf Islam 24) Country artist who featured in“ Pat Garet t and
Billy the Kid” 25) Black Sabbath’ s vocalist during 27) Genre 30)“ For he’ s a ___ good fellow” 32) Pioneer of pop music in India, ___ Fernandes 34) Billy Joel’ s“ She’ s always a ___ to me” 37) Michael Peter Balzary( alias) 40) Second note in a musical scale
MUKESH AMARAN
ALBUM
ARTicle:
ARKWERK
Instagram handle @ arkwerk
Picture sitting in a room with your favourite band, musicians who you consider legends. Now imagine actually using your field of expertise to work side by side with the people you idolize. That’ s exactly the feeling Arjun Rajkishore and Abijit Vivek of Arkwerk were experiencing while creating the now iconic album art of the ultra-talented Blackstratblues album The Last Analog Generation.
Having started out creating the T-shirt design for the 10th anniversary of the band’ s first album,“ Nights in Shining Karma”, Arjun got the opportunity to work on the artwork of the new album they were working on then.“ I really wanted to attempt a photo route for this- it was something I ' ve never done before, and we had only 1 day to actually do it, and it * definitely * wouldn ' t have been possible without my cousin Abijit Vivek who actually shot the album cover.”, say Arjun. Having had just one day to create the album art, Arjun and Abijit had to come up with a DIY contraption to use as a tripod to attain the perfect height to shoot the rack at Warren Mendonsa’ s home studio.
An artist always seems to throw in a bunch of nods and references while creating an artwork, and Arjun is no exception. He has riddled the album art with Easter eggs which adds more character to the album art and are references that would put a smile on the fans faces.“ The 11:11 in the center is their daughter Nia ' s birthday. 004 next to the album title is because it ' s their 4th album. Crystal Echoes on the bottom panel was also a setting used in the album itself!”, says Arjun while getting excited himself.
A digital product designer and a graphic designer in the music industry, Arkwerk’ s process of creation is a constantly evolving one.“ I approach most of the work I do the same way I approach an app design or a web design project. I try and get into the mind of the artist as much as I possibly can, and then work with them constantly to put out a finished product.”
Favourite band – Rush Favourite track – Subdivisions by Rush
Favourite Indian Artist – Skrat, Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator, Pentagram and Blackstratblues among others.
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