ABOUT PROJECT

During this month we are admitting works inspired by Non Cadenza music. This true russian soul-music from the glamorous girl with a stunning voice, Sasha Almazova, was already a great impact for many artists from pole to pole. Sweet Content Album gives everyone a chance to know the band, to express all your emotions, thoughts and feelings about Non Cadenza in one artwork. You can help the band with their first LP production by taking part in this project and publishing illustration on our website.

Every illustration, which was made for the Sweet Content Album, will be available for order as posters straight from the project website. All the money earned will be used for the Non Cadenza album production, they're recording it for over the six months, it's just the lack of finances makes it hard for chaps to release the album right now. We want to help our friends, that's why we start this project.

Every ordered poster of your favorite artwork is a positive help for the band.

We'll be happy to get you really interested in this project. Please remember that any help is beyond price. If you just tell your friends about us – you’ll become the full participant of our project.
All illustrations exhibited are taking part in the contest and there'll be two artworks chosen.

First winner was selected 25th of January 2010 by the results of site population votes.
Leena Parvin - the author of most voted illustration will receive a gift from Sweet Content team -
brand new iPod Nano 5g



The second winner chosen by the band itself, will get an offer to make a cover for the upcoming album.

Also, it'll be some pleasant surprises for the contestants, which we are going to tell you in our blog in time of the project.

ABOUT BAND

Non Cadenza is a new-wave band from St. Petersburg. It combines Russian-language lyrics with soul-music, which might seem, maybe, a bit unfitting to each other. The band takes trend Russian pop-songs and adds some distinguished jazz harmonies. Music and lyrics are made by singer, pianist and also, a pretty woman Alexandra (Sasha) Almazova.

Sasha is smart and chic blonde (sometimes it happens all in one). She has no troubles with managing the band and posing for the famous photographers in glossy magazines at the same time. Sasha's compositions is a rare Russian soul-music, clear and thrilling jazz. Her songs are very fragile and very feminine.

First of all, Non Cadenza is the band of friends. Friendship was the beginning, and this friendship lasts, although the line-up changed a lot since then.

Today Non Cadenza is the band consisting of the top-level musicians from St.Petersburg.

Sasha Almazova - all-time singer-songwrighter, lead vocalist with a sensuous voice, heart and soul of the band

Arman Sidorkin - keyboards, arrangements, back vocals

Boris Mazhorov - electric bass

Mikhail Zooyev - guitar

Alexander Potapov - drums

The sixth, "invisible" member of the band is the band manager Yana Chudit. She organizes Non Cadenza concerts, communicates with fans, she is a press agent, an administrator, a concert tour manager and, by all means, she is a good friend.

SWEET CONTENT TEAM

All this has started 2 years ago with Evgeny Kiselev, famous illustrator in St. Petersburg, and Alexander Kalachev, the designer. Together they've decided to make an experimental release, designer's chocolate packaging in limited edition. That's how the entitle - Sweet Content - has come to us, for the first as a name of "chocolate project", and then as a name for the project team.

Second released project is a 2009 unique calendar for the collectors. James White, Peter Jaworowski, Matt W. Moore, Loic Sattler, Sebastian Onufszak, who are the world design celebrities, appeared on this project together with young and rather talented illustrators, such as Niark One, Guilherme Marconi, Mark Verhaagen, Alberto Seveso, Mar Hernandez. Russian designers couldn't stay aside - Edik Katykhin, Merdanchik and Evgeny Kiselev appeared on this bright international project, too.
Sweet Content is a team where all members are deeply passionate about fresh ideas and trends in graphics. Our target is to promote these ideas through art-projects, connecting illustrators worldwide.

The number of project members grows every year and with every year grows the number of people who become a part of the team. They are the reason why Sweet Content has grown up from little home-made project to a full-bodied organization. Sweet Content team now numbers more than 10 persons from different parts of the world but still they're making a great job all together.

If you want to take part in Sweet Content team - please feel free to contact us. Fresh ideas and suggestions are always welcome!

Big thanks for the photographers, who kindly granted their photos of the Non Cadenza band for this project.

PARTNERS

Imagine CS is a design and visual communication studio. Our head-office is in Moscow and we also have people in St. Petersburg, Bordeaux, Munich, New York, Delhi and Singapore. We thrive on being a part of the artistic community and rising to new challenges, projects and ideas – and on being the conduit for introducing strong, new design talent that will help us change the world. Imagine CS - that's who we are. We are a team who gave birth to the Sweet Content projects.

Sublevel.us is a website showcases current releases in the fields of fashion and graphics design by Marius Bauer, who kindly agreed to help us to manage print and delivery office in Europe, located in Munich.

We are the Phantoms, who specialize in outsource development of interactive design. Worked with big names, which include popular brands & design studios. Last couple of years we cooperate with companies, which business is internet based, occasionally we create media products that help companies make their job easier and effective. We like music of Non Cadenza, so we made a set of beautiful photos for them.