Welcome to the Arhanta Comics + Records website. Explore and enjoy the art created by our team at Arhanta Studio; fantastic tales and musical excursions into the unknown. We're painters, musicians, illustrators, writers, poets and coders who love experimenting and collaborating.
Soundtrack to OLIMAX: Deep Space Cartographer →
This Album is LIVE (as of December 21, 2023!)
Guano Loco (Single Side B) from OLIMAX Album
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OLIMAX: Deep Space Cartographer
Surreal Sci-Fi Space Opera
During an exploration assignment with a tempting reward, the intergalactic gateway behind Olimax collapses. This is precisely what every grapher seeks to avoid. He is left stranded in a strange, semi-civilized galaxy, relying on his cartographic skills to make ends meet..
Co-created by Camilo Nascimento and B Clune, the art of exploration is a major theme of this epic tale. We have a general outline for the story, filling in details by listening to improv music made along the way; allowing the music to inspire alien places and characters.
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GALACTIC STACKS: an audio adventure by Norm Scott, w/ visual art by Camilo Nascimento.
Join the Captain and the Lieutenant on a journey across the dwarf planet of Ceres, as they attempt to deliver a packet of secret knowledge and broadcast it to the masses... the fate of the galaxy is in their hands!
Comprised of beats, grooves, samples, live scratches, melodies and auditory textures, many of them improvised by members of the Arhanta team.
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BEAT ROOTS: a collection of high quality, classic hip-hop beats for your download and usage, Creative Commons License.
Exploring early influences on our group's creative drive, we decided to re-investigate early rap, scratch music and hip-hop culture. We're still learning more about this rich music and art from our youth, and very much energized by classic hip-hop in all its forms; poetic, freedom of expression and collaboration with colleagues is key to our team's artistic spirit, born from the early roots of hip-hop.
In this process of reflection we wanted to to celebrate hip-hop and all it's done for us. We recorded high-quality drum beats, based on essential works reminisced. We bundled and released these homespun drum kit audio files for all to download, enjoy, and use in their own music projects under Creative Commons License.
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Goodnight Loving Trail: a re-telling of an olde Wild West story ~ justice is served.
A historical fiction based on the song lyrics from the song Me & My Uncle, which was based on an older song called Goodnight Loving Trail, inspired by the trail used in cattle drives in the late 1860's, going from Texas to New Mexico, continuing into Wyoming through Colorado.
Writer Adam Barker has drafted a version of the story where "Me" is a young Native American boy, and "Uncle" is his captor... Illustrated by Camilo Nascimento - we hope to carve out more time to develop this gritty tale of olde Americana.
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No Mistakes Waltz: A stroll to the ocean under a full moon releases writer's block.
A short comic inspired by piano recording by musician Grahm Dion. We're in the lab working with Norm Scott on making this into an animated short.
Playing the Ki-Tun Art Game, Camilo transposed Grahm's music piece into a series of illustrated panels.
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PILLAR: A fantasy adventure celebrating friendship and perseverance.
The story of Pillar centers around our main character Myrindah; a dreamer and lover of nature. On a search for a unique cocoon one morning, she finds herself captured by the HaManeem and taken to the center of the city, where the silk harvesting takes place. How will she escape, and who will we meet along the way?
PILLAR, City of Silk, created by writer Adam Barker and illustrator Camilo Nascimento — childhood friends collecting comic books and collaborating on art projects for several years.
