SHAMULI / Zhang Weiwei

沙木黎 / 张玮玮专辑

CLIENT : Zhang Weiwei / Hu Zhenchao
DESIGNER : Hu Zhenchao
YEAR : 2023 Music Vinyl record

"Shamuli" is a concept album released by Zhang Weiwei after a lapse of ten years. It presents a middle-aged texture. The dark frosted red shell is like a red house, wrapped in bottomless black. The clouds are looming under the faint line. It is so quiet that once you breathe, everything will disappear. ——This is the atmosphere and temperament that the visual tries to create. This atmosphere comes from the huge space created by the combination of the text of the music work and the synthesizer sound, a physical space and an imaginary space. At the same time, the extreme restraint and calmness of this visual expression also echoes the author's personal character and consistent aesthetic pursuit.
Different from the previous album design, this time it tries to use structure and touch to present Zhang Weiwei's new music, rather than the traditional "cover graphic". The graphic and text design are compressed to the extreme, and even the three words "Shamuli" on the shell are not easy to detect. This is also the appearance of "Shamuli", the character created by the author-it is hidden in each of our hearts, waiting to be discovered.

《沙木黎》是张玮玮时隔十年推出的一张概念专辑，它所呈现的是一种中年的质感，幽暗的磨砂的红色封壳，就像红色的房子，包裹着深不见底的黑色，云雾在微弱的关线下若隐若现，安静得你一旦呼吸，一切就会烟消云散。——这是视觉试图营造的氛围与气质。这种氛围源于音乐作品的文本和合成器音色结合所营造的巨大空间，一种物理上的空间和想象力的空间。同时，这种视觉表达的极度克制与沉稳，也是呼应着作者个人性格与一贯的美学追求。
与以往专辑设计不同，这次试图用结构和触感去呈现张玮玮全新的音乐，而非传统的“封面图形”，图形与文字设计被压缩到极致，甚至连封壳上的“沙木黎”三个字都不易察觉，这也是“沙木黎”这个作者虚拟出来的人物该有的模样——TA藏在我们每个人心里，等待被发现。

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