GARAGE ARTIST PORTAL: JULIEN LANGENDORFF

Julien calmly recites his five most influential album covers with us:

#1  Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

This is my favourite album cover ever...Don't really have much to say about it, it's just pure perfection to me. It obviously inspired artist Jason Glasser and our collaborative movie "Pillars Of Fire".

#2  Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

I remember having this album at some point when I was a teenager- maybe a friend of mine gave it to me or something. I honestly have no recollection whatsoever of the music apart from the feeling of not understanding it at all. Should give it another try someday. Still, I never forgot that cover. It really terrifies me though, it's just a statue. If there was one single artwork to pick up for the ultimate Gothic record, in my book that would be this one. I think the shot was taken at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

#3  Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

As a kid I had seen this album cover many times before I finally got the chance to listen to the music. Internet didn't exist then so there was a lot of mystery involved around music and albums. You would just see images in magazines and had to use your imagination to figure it out. This perfect shot really fascinated me- the kind of photograph that makes your blood beat real hard in your temples, and makes you want to do fucked-up things. A visual promise of danger and excitation, which was exactly what the music was about.

#4   Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

Looking at this image gives me the exact same feeling as looking at a painting by Edvard Munch.

#5   Sonic Youth - Dirty

Under the recent circumstances, I'll choose this SY artwork designed by Mike Kelley. Sonic Youth have been important to me as a teenager in many ways. Through their constant collaborations with contemporary artists on artworks and videos, it sort of gave me a key to enter and get to understand better the art world, making it almost as exciting as the music scene. I think I've always worked on my art keeping that very feeling inside of me, probably. Mike Kelley's genius will be missed so much.