The cover design for Russell Haswell’s ‘Deep Time’ LP employs multiple layers of the MMcN TwoStroke type system in calibrated offsets to suggest the passage of time and the stratification of rock formations.
Underpinning the composition of ‘Deep Time’ are Russell Haswell’s ideas about the ways in which time is traced in space. The album was inspired by ancient geological formations at Siccar Point in Scotland which are composed of two types of rock that are separated by a 65 million year gap in the geological record. The Scottish geologist James Hutton's observations at Siccar Point in the late eighteenth century indicated that the Earth was much older than previously thought.
‘Deep Time’ is scheduled for release by
Diagonal Records in April 2025.