In the summer of 2015 the opera Leaves – The Colour of Falling by Efterklang and Karsten Fundal was performed at 16 sold out nights in the 1000 m2 nuclear basement of the former Copenhagen Municipal Hospital. The opera, produced in collaboration with Sort/Hvid and directed by Christian Lollike, was recorded on this album for which we designed the artwork, and it was released in 2016 on Tambourhinoceros. We based our design on Søren Solkær’s photographs of the performance and used painted symbols to create an occult and ominous atmosphere mirroring that of the opera’s story line and atmosphere.