I can't help but feel like it's raining

There are nights when I just want it to rain.
Just when I was about to head home, a downpour started. In warm weather, I would head home without an umbrella unless I was carrying something important. I would join in the rhythm of splashing around.
If I don't feel like going straight home, I get off the train a little earlier and walk with my favorite umbrella.

Rainy nights have their own unique beauty, and it's fun to discover it. The green, yellow, and red lights of traffic lights blur on the wet asphalt. The rainy words reflected by the lights. The lingering echoes of taillights pass between the lines. I take off my glasses and contacts and swim like a fish in the blurry bottom of the night.

There's nothing I can do but rain, rain, rain...
When you feel like that.
If you feel like making it rain in your heart and in your room, pick up a record whose cover exudes a blue, moist scent.

Alfa Mist is a keyboardist, composer and producer at the forefront of the UK jazz scene. His fifth album, "Alpha Mist," has a cool feel to it, but also a warm, nostalgic sound. His Afrobeat music blurs the boundaries between genres, obscuring both the hustle and bustle of the city and primordial memories.

Even though the album isn't based around the concept of rain, the blurring of the artwork gives the music a sense of water.

I'm not an expert on jazz or hip-hop, so my impressions tend to be childish and intuitive, but the owner of this store will forgive me. Because this is a store where you can "buy for the cover." There are many pieces of music that I've discovered and fallen in love with in this way, so I want to remember to have that feeling before talking about design.

Although the jacket has many roles, such as expressing the artist's personality and conveying the concept, this album made me realize once again that it is also important for the listener that the impression of the design matches the music being played.

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Text and photos: fumika arasawa designer After working as a freelancer, I now work for a company and occasionally help out my friends. Instagram: @fumika * Click here to purchase related products at rovakk musikk.

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ALFA MIST “Variables”

Artwork by Kaya Thomas-Dyke
Format: LP, vinyl
Product no. 7951-1
Link on rovakk musikk : https://rovakk.com/products/alfa-mist-variables-new

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WALLFLOWER CATALOGUE

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