ACL 2018 ~ The Year’s Best Packaging

During the giving season, we remember the importance of packaging.  Not only do we want our gifts to look well-wrapped, we want what’s inside to appeal as well.  One can’t wrap a stream or a digital download.  This brings us to one

Stretching into Summer with ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ Records

A song for every month: May, June, July, August.  Three CDs in a wooden box.  Two and a half hours of music.  This is ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ’s May Batch, designed to score a restful summer.  If the warm months are even half as

ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ ~ A Book of Memories

St. Petersburg’s ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ label has been responsible for some lovely packaging over the years, and A Book of Memories is yet another charmer.  The embroidered box (designed by Mila Berestovaya & Tim Six) contains cassettes from Sunmoonstar, YlangYlang and Jum-Jum, together forming a Russian tapestry as warm

Endless Melancholy ~ The Vacation

There’s only one copy of the reel-to-reel used for this album ~ the perfect artifact for the score to an empty world.  But one can feel the warmth even on the CD (in lovely book form, seen below) and on