Long time friend Guillermo started Wild Honey in his apartment in Madrid, a few blocks away from where I used to live. For a year or so, this child faced man was building in his bedroom -almost secretly- a giant maquette that smelled like the Brill Building and ended up being an album named Epic Handshakes and a Bear Hug.

No doubt all this homemade precission and care had to be translated to the whole graphic concept. A craftsman process of searching over enciclopedias and old magazines, cut, paste, ink... Collecting printed matter always offer something different than the internet, the physicality of it. A more deserved victory, maybe.

For every album design there is always a basic idea that keeps floating around the whole process. This might come from extracted lyrics, a general momentum or a personal life approach... something deeply rooted or an absurd anecdote in a conversation. Orienteering championship in the Alps was the spark for this one.

The album is sold in one only format that includes a heavy cardboard for the artwork, a 180gr. red vinyl and a two panel cd pack version. Printed and manually glued by an old printing house in the neighbourhood. Assembled and delivered by Guillermo himself, in the same bedroom that it was recorded. 

A later three panel cd version was reissued by Lovemonk (Spain) and Flake Records (Japan), adding some new artwork to the original.