Tag Archives: Cover Art
ALBUM COVER ART | 9 LIVES
A COVER ART JOURNEY * Some Girls – Heaven’s Pregnant Teens [2006] Barclay James Harvest – Baby James Harvest [1972] Various Artists – In the Beginning [1985] Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun [1995] James Taylor – James Taylor [1968] James Taylor – Live in Germany [1986] James Taylor – Before this World [2015] The Cure […]
10 ARTISTIC ALBUM COVER PORTRAITS
While assembling the album cover Portrait Playoff (One and Two), I considered having a satellite event where the artist portrait was not a photograph, but a painting, drawing, watercolour, stick and ochre, whatever. But that idea did not really mesh with the ‘realistic’ covers, and so was shelved. Yet those LPs making it through the qualifying rounds were diverse and […]
ART ON YOUR SLEEVE #2 − OSIBISA
For the second instalment in the Art On Your Sleeve series I’m delighted to welcome JDB. Her blog Augenblick is well worth checking out. JDB contributed the ‘art’ section of this piece, increasing the overall depth and quality of the post immeasurably. Hope you agree. * OSIBISA – Osibirock [1974] * THE MUSIC When Osibisa was […]
ALBUM COVERS | YESTERDAY’S PAPERS?
May 10th marks the second anniversary of Vinyl Connection. Two years of weekly long-form posts with a second mid-week item more often than not. Over 180 posts in all; some 140,000 words. The statistics page reveals that there have been over 28,000 page views and greater than 1,000 ‘Likes’. So roughly every thirty-or-so ‘looks’ produces […]
ANOTHER COVER ART QUIZ (QUIZ #2)
The first of these quizzes was well received, so it is time for another. * Here are 12 album covers (CD sized) sitting on top of an LP. How many of the 13 Albums and Artists can you name? * To allow folk in different time zones to participate, here is the one rule: ONLY TWO COVERS PER […]
ART ON YOUR SLEEVE #1 − PROCOL HARUM
An occasional series featuring LPs boasting ‘fine art’ on their covers, with words about the music and something about the art #1 PROCOL HARUM – Exotic Birds and Fruit [1974] THE MUSIC By 1974, the massive success of Procol Harum’s debut single was a long time gone. Not that the band had disappeared; more gently but […]
DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
So here is the Vinyl Connection New Year’s Resolution: To post a weekly diary of all – I mean all – new music arrivals at Base Camp Connection. The good, the bad (as in “that’s really, bad, man”) and the ugly. It’s been tried before and lasted two posts, there has been a holiday edition, even an […]
MATI AND THE MUSIC [PART TWO]
This article is the second part of a feature on the album covers of artist Mati Klarwein. The first part is entitled More Than Abraxas. The life of a peripatetic artist is one of change and blending influences. Mati was a great traveller and enthusiastically soaked up images of culture and mythology from the many countries […]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE [COVERART #58]
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find [Reprise, 1974] Fleetwood Mac – Future Games [Reprise, 1971] The Larry Coryell Michael Urbaniak Duo [keytone, 1982] V/A – Woodstock Two [Atlantic, 1971] * Coming next… FLEETWOOD MAC 1970 – 1974
MORE THAN ABRAXAS
When you think of album art, some classic images spring to mind… – those four blokes on the London zebra crossing, – that angular tubular bell suspended over sky-sea-shore, – the underwater baby boy lured by an angler’s dollar bill. Though it is harder to capture in a few words, the cover of the second […]
BLUE NIGHT [COVERART #50]
* Andreas Vollendender – Down to the Moon [1986] Eric Clapton – Pilgrim [1998] Rush – Fly by Night [1975] Ashra – New Age of Earth [1976] * “Blue Night” by Michael Learns To Rock [2000] * 50 word short stories triggered by the above sequence are welcome and can be posted in ‘Comments’ 🙂
KINDA BLUE [COVERART #49]
* amon düül II – phallus dei [1969] acoustic alchemy – positive thinking [1998] eno moebius roedelius – after the heat [1978] john abercrombie – timeless [1974] * feature image blue nile – hats [1989]
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