Images from the Stark Corner – Lycia – an early 90s memory

From Projekt’s Sam Rosenthal:

There’s an ongoing fascination with 90s-era Projekt releases. For aficionados of those releases, here’s something really interesting! It’s a set of never-before-seen images from the photoshoot for one of Projekt’s iconic 90s albums! It’s been 24 years since the release of LYCIA’s A Day in the Stark Corner; back in 1993 Susan Jennings and I went out to the desert to shoot the cover photos. When I was redesigning the cover for the reissue, I asked Susan to digitize the 3 rolls of film we shot that day, 80 images in all. On this page you can see the progression of our ideas with 24 images in the order they were taken. All images are presented full frame (not cropped). I think it’s remarkable to peek into this moment in time in a way I didn’t think I would experience again. Enjoy!

If you have any questions you’d like to ask Susan and me, send a message; we’ll add your question and the answer to the page.

Today is the retail street date for the Stark Corner CD. Purchase at your favorite record store, Amazon, and of course at Projekt’s webstore and Bandcamp store.

A very limited number of the A Day in the Stark Corner t-shirts remain: 5 medium and 2 XL. We also have 2 of the 3-XL Ionia t-shirts.

On the follow-up to Ionia, Mike Van Portfleet continues his pursuit of an apocalyptic landscape of extremes in which rich gothic guitars and intense rhythms divulge a world of bleak desperation; with that unmistakeable unnerving whispered voice. Peter Steele of Type-O Negative said about Stark Corner: “Such simple hypnotic beats, everything is drowned in reverb. Yet, the emotion comes through so loud and clear. It’s just devastating, as beautiful as it is devastating.”