Music & marketing.

Behind the artwork sat everything else a record needs: print-ready files, proofs and pressing deadlines with the factory, the budget and a LATGA grant I secured, contracts and 300 hand-numbered copies. I also made sure the audio arrived in the right shape, arranging masters from sound engineer Pavel Daniels to the technical standards of both vinyl cutting and CD replication.

The album also came out on CD, with 500 copies produced in the Netherlands.

I opened a pre-sale on the band's website and arranged a five-concert tour around the release, in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Alytus and Ukmergė. The vinyl edition is now nearly sold out, and a second pressing is planned for the near future.

The original cover was created by the well-known Lithuanian artist Saulius Urbonavičius-Samas, with photos by Claudia Reichardt. My job was to respect it: I kept as much of the design as possible and reworked it to fit a 12-inch gatefold and new centre labels.

I arranged the remastering of the original 1998 recordings with sound engineer Pavel Daniels, then took the record to the Green Lakes Pressing vinyl factory, in black and in turquoise marble. Around it I handled the licences and paperwork a reissue needs, and opened a pre-sale on the band's website.

The launch shows sold out, two concerts back to back. At the release, DJ Mamania of G&G Sindikatas put it simply: "one of the best Lithuanian rock albums".

Among them is the hit "Aš nupirksiu tau namą", which helped win the band the title of best rock band two years in a row and stayed in the radio charts for an incredibly long time: 33 weeks on Radiocentras.

The concept and design are mine. I dug up old articles and photos from newspapers and magazines, mostly from the early 2000s, and turned them into a real newspaper called Senos naujienos. Band leader Tomas Krivickas reads it on the cover, and the full paper is printed on the record's inner sleeve.

Some songs were remastered and some freshly recorded, including a new version of Skandalas with the well-known Lithuanian artist ba. (Benas Aleksandravičius), recorded with sound engineer Pavel Daniels at Rockmergė records. Behind it I ran the budget, the recording sessions, the master files and the licences, then took it to Green Lakes Pressing and launched it with concerts in Ukmergė and Vilnius.