JUNGLE: Research and Association

I chose Jungle's debut album over the other albums on the list, because I had an interest in their music, I felt that if I didn't like the music I wouldn't be able to get a good feel for it, and i would end up with an outcome that I am not pleased with.

JUNGLE

Jungle is a soul music collective founded in London at the beginning of 2013, by Josh Lloyd-Watson (pictured right) and Tom McFarland (pictured left). Their music is intermixed with "tropical percussion, wildlife noises, falsetto yelps, psychedelic washes and badoinking bass".
I've found various interviews with JUNGLE that help to understand the reasoning behind their music, most of the sounds, and the reasoning as to why they try to stay away from self indulgence.

http://nbhap.com/music/interviews/jungle/
http://www.clashmusic.com/features/the-really-wild-show-jungle-interviewed
http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2014/06/interview-jungle-on-friendship-self-censorship-and-the-mystery-that-they-never-intended/

I chose JUNGLE as I personally really enjoy the music, and feel that I can take the concept in a completely different direction than their existing album cover (pictured below). I think that this is a very simple album cover that lends itself to be redesigned, even though it is fitting of the bands views on self-indulgence I think that it doesn't really portray the band. It already establishes a good looking band logo which I would take over to the new designs. I dislike the gold trim on the album, and I feel that the background could be far more interesting and captivating whilst still being more about the art form itself than the people behind the music.

Name Association 

Starting from the name I looked at Photography in books, of jungle's. I found two books in the library about Rainforest's, the first one called "Rainforest Ancient Realm of the Pacific Northwest" with photography by Graham Osborne, the second called "Rainforest a photographic journey" with photography by Thomas Marent.

Through looking at these two books I think that I got a good feeling of what makes somewhere feel like a jungle, and I will have a starting place for my experimentation and development.