Argentina has a special place in the heart of Coldplay and there are many proofs: the band broke a record with 10 shows in River during the tour of Music of the Spheresour country was the opening and closing place of the tour A Head Full of Dreams and now, a photographer from Bahía Blanca is the author of the new album coverwhich will be released on October 4.
Matías Alonso Revelli, 31, was contacted by Chris Martin in August of last year. “He was the first person I spoke to and he told me that they wanted to use my photo as the cover of the album,” he said in dialogue with TN. “He was super kind, a great guy,” he highlighted.
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The cover of Moon Music
Matías has been a photographer for 13 years. He started after finishing high school and specialized in natural and architectural photography. The now world-renowned image of him was created in 2020 and is a composition of three different photos: “The sky and the rainbow on the one hand, the stars and, finally, the moon,” he explained. When editing it, he aligned the rainbow with the moon because they had the same shape, “like they were copying each other.”
Matías took the photos on an afternoon in 2020. (Photo: courtesy of Matías Revelli)
“I took it out during the pandemic, Thanks to my dad, who told me to go out to the patio to look at the sky. I published it a few days after releasing it and it went a bit viral, which, I suppose, helped the image reach Coldplay four years later,” he said. A very important detail for the Bahian photographer is that he captured the images with his Nikon D3100. “It is a camera that I have a lot of affection for him because it was my first camera and it accompanied me for many years.”
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On June 17, Coldplay’s official account broke the news of the release of the new single, feelslikeimfallinginlovedue June 21, plus the album image Moon Musicwhose cover is the photo of Matías Revelli. Matías’s cell phone began to receive thousands of notifications and messages since then. “It’s like a dream, I still haven’t fallen, honestly. “It would never have occurred to me.”
Matías Revelli is a photographer specialized in nature and architecture. (Photo: courtesy of Matías Revelli)
Matías also took advantage of the announcement to publish a letter of gratitude on social networks:
“I want to thank the band and their entire team for their kindness and for trusting my work to add to their next album. I will be forever grateful and honored to be a part of this. I also want to mention the wonderful Pilar Zeta (Argentinian multimedia artist who works with the band) for her work on the album art design. Last but not least, I thank every person who liked, commented, or took the time to message me. I am very happy with the reception that the cover photo is having. Thanks thanks”.
On Twitter (X), The official Coldplay account responded to his message: “Thank you for trusting us with your beautiful work of art, Matías. We will be eternally grateful.”
(Photo: Twitter @matialonsor)
The new album will be available on all platforms in October of this year and the main message continues to be caring for the environment, so Moon Music be the first physical album manufactured in EcoRecord format rPET (140 gram vinyl), meaning each record contains nine recycled plastic bottles.
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The release of Coldplay’s new album, “Moon Music”, will be on October 4. (Photo: Instagram @coldplay)
Coldplay is committed to responsible consumption and sustainability. Is associated with the organization One Tree Planted, which plants a tree for every product sold on the official website. Additionally, from March 2022 to February 2023, the first months of the tour Music of the Spheres, the band announced that they had planted five million trees. Another action focused on the ecological is the use of the “kinetic floor” and bicycles installed at the concerts to create electricity with the energy of the fans.
