Piper At The Gates of Dawn was the debut album from Pink Floyd, and it’s the only Pink Floyd album to be made with founding member Syd Barrett. He left due to drug consumption and a deteriorating mental state, but he gave us something incredible and was a massive influence on the writing of Pink Floyd’s masterpiece Wish You Were Here, of which Ilenia is most fond of. How could this be the same Pink Floyd that did Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall? You may wonder while listening to it. Piper is a very different album to the post-Barrett works of Pink Floyd. Investigating it from the perspective of later releases will surely confuse, as this one is related to that in name only. We chose this album to make the redesign of, for this reason. Cohesion is not the strength of this LP; you are presented with the most bizarre, surreal and trippy melodies they ever made with the weirdest lyrics they ever wrote. Piper is a liberating piece because it knows no boundaries, it knows only the infinite. It tells you nothing about the ultimate nature of reality, but it tells you everything about the relative nature of order and chaos, ultimately yet lacking on pretentiousness.

The name “The sounds resound” chosen for our cover redesign, is borrowed from the lyrics of Astronomy Domine, one of the songs in the original album. The sound resounds is an invite to think of the powerful influence and resonance that music has in our lives.

The visual on the front cover is the result of a collage of different photos shot holding a kaleidoscope prism lens filter in front of the camera, which is bending light and refracting the subject, creating that reverberant effect. Our redesign is meant to picture the multiplicity of aspects of reality. It’s a call to free yourself from the fixation of wanting to understand, explain and define reality by trying to pin it down. Instead, freely embrace the now and what is happening today, letting it be.