Grupo Anima – Na Pancada Desvairada album art
Na Pancada Desvairada is an album featuring compositions and arrangements based on melodies recorded by the Brazilian modernist Mário de Andrade during his ethnographic travels through Northeast Brazil between 1928 and 1938. The physical media for the record is a disc accompanied by a 120-page bilingual publication presenting the group’s extensive research on this material.
The client expressed the desire to include a typewriter-style typeface in the visual identity, referencing the documentary archive of Mário de Andrade that inspired the album. For this purpose, Courier was selected.
The project’s visual identity emerges from a graphic-literary investigation, beginning with the diamond shape on the cover, repeated as a triptych across the back cover and inner flap. In addition to alluding to the symbol of the Brazilian flag – in the same orientation as it appears on the cover of Pau Brasil (1925) by Oswald de Andrade – it also references the harlequin’s diamond-patterned costume, a recurring image in Pauliceia Desvairada (1922), both in the poems and in the cover design of its first edition.
By articulating these symbols, the art direction sought to create a contemporary graphic expression grounded in the dialogue between Mário de Andrade’s modernist work and the Brazilian popular musical culture he studied.
Art direction and graphic design by Flora Milanez, with photography by Fernando Banzi.
