Camilia Sparksss Announce New Album “Lullabies”

Canadian artist Camilla Sparksss has announced the release of a new album on Swiss based label On the Camper Records. “Lullabies” is a collection of eight bedtime stories for adults consisting of two 12inch animated vinyl and a magic mirror designed by the artist. By placing the mirror on top of the record the animations spin to life at 45RPM.

It took ages to finish this album. It all started at a moment when day-to-day rituals crashed. Right then it felt natural to part from the usual coldwave noise compositions, and write Lullabies.

The stories are very simple, spoken words, entirely composed on mellotron with a few endless grooves. An ode to spark the inner child. In an era of digital overload this album had to be purely analogue; physical and authentic. An album that people could experience in a natural environment, without having to look at a screen.

About the album concept, Camilla Sparksss comments : Joseph Plateau’s phenakistoscope was the perfect visual universe for this. So with the help or my friend and designer Giulio Parini we began designing a mirror that could be placed on top of the spinning picture discs. It took months to determine a frame rate for 45RPM to draw and re-draw the animations. Then, it took years to design a model that could be assembled at home and fit in a vinyl cover. Twenty-three prototypes to be exact.