Jef Maarawi - Terra Papagalli

2021

Portrait, Brazil, Memory, Culture, Belonging, Humour, Sun, National, Home

Jef Maarawi - Terra Papagalli

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Music

Services

Art Direction, Packaging

Terra Papagalli unfolds as a fragmented portrait of place, memory and cultural dislocation. Rooted in Brazil yet shaped by distance, the album navigates ideas of belonging, mimicry and inherited identity. The artwork embraces this duality through a vivid, referential visual world that balances playfulness with unease.

National colors, rhythmic typography and sun-soaked imagery form a welcoming surface, while subtle distortions and surreal photographic choices introduce friction beneath it. Extended across the sleeve, inner layouts and vinyl labels, the system functions as a continuous landscape—one that mirrors the album’s lyrical tension between nostalgia, irony and the persistent question of what “home” really means.

Credits

Art direction, Design: Giorgos Papadakis / Cover photography: Danilo Arenas / Insert printing: Future Format / Release notes: Label: Inner Ear • All songs written by Jef Maarawi • Backing vocals written & arranged by Irini Arabatzi • Music arranged by Jef Maarawi, Nikos Dervisis, Kostas Zabos, Mampre Kasardjian, Vassilis Vlahakos, Spiros Livanis, Aggelos Polychronou, and Haris Nilas • Produced by Kostas Zabos, Nikos Dervisis, and Jef Maarawi • Engineered by Kostas Zabos and Stavros Georgiopoulos • Mixed by Stavros Georgiopoulos • Mastered by Kostas Verigas • Recorded from April to September 2019 at Dudu Loft in Athens, Greece • This album was made under the generous hospitality of Kostas Zabos, and is dedicated to Mr. Panagiotis Kalamaras.