album and single covers for "SUMMER GROOVE" by ÀTTOOXXÁ

"Summer Groove" is the 5th studio album by ÀTTOOXXÁ, released early in 2024. In this project, I worked alongside with Bile (@bile.wtf) as the Designer and Art Director and with Ívanno José Brabo (@soletrabraba) as the Designer and Letter Artist. Inspired by the jamaican Dancehall culture and brazilian periphecal culture from Bahia, we created colorful pieces that evoked what groove is.

As the band stated for the concept of its album,"Groove is the perfect synchrony between percussion, bass, guitar and all the instruments involved. It's the musical foundation of all black music movements, and pagodão is black music. It's an expression of our culture, our people and our roots. Pagodão is groove like the blues, it's groove like funk, it's groove like disco, it's groove like Afrobeat. Groove is black music and black music is universal".

The fashion style from artists such as Betty Davis (70s funk music singer), Itamar Assumpção, Sun Ra and Tyler, the Creator served as inspiration for the creation of the garments from each band member represented.

Alongside with the portraits, I made other 10 illustrations, that symbolized the themes of the album and that gave visual support for the main cover and other press materials.

01 tranca rua

02 tá gostosin

03 do nada

04 qual é

05 7am

06 trenzin da sacanagem