{"id":13665,"date":"2013-04-17T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2013-04-17T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:23:36","slug":"josef-albers-album-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/17\/josef-albers-album-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Josef Albers album covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Provocative Percussion (1959) by The Command All-Stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think that the handful of album cover designs produced by Bauhaus artist Josef Albers would have decorated something by Xenakis, or one of the composers experimenting with tape recording and electronics at the end of the 1950s. But no, it\u2019s the easy listening cocktail music of Enoch Light and co. who received the benefit of his abstractions. The covers are smart solutions for how to embellish a collection of percussive instrumentals without resort to the thumping obviousness of a photograph of the artists or their instruments. Albers\u2019 designs found their way into more American living rooms than they otherwise might have done, and established a trend which you still find being imitated today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M1nK47b78kg\" target=\"_blank\">You&#8217;re The Top<\/a><\/em> by The Command All-Stars<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Persuasive Percussion (1959) by Terry Snyder And The All Stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Provocative Percussion Volume 2 (1959) by Enoch Light And The Light Brigade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Persuasive Percussion Volume 3 (1960) by The Command All-Stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Provocative Percussion Vol. III (1961) by Enoch Light And The Light Brigade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"albers1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/albers1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pictures At An Exhibition by Mussorgsky\/Ravel (1961); L&#8217;Orchestre De La Societ\u00e9 Des Concerts Du Conservatoire, Andre Vandernoot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-album-covers-archive\/\">The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provocative Percussion (1959) by The Command All-Stars. You\u2019d think that the handful of album cover designs produced by Bauhaus artist Josef Albers would have decorated something by Xenakis, or one of the composers experimenting with tape recording and electronics at the end of the 1950s. But no, it\u2019s the easy listening cocktail music of Enoch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/04\/17\/josef-albers-album-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Josef Albers album covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4704,2033,4703],"class_list":["post-13665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-music","tag-enoch-light","tag-iannis-xenakis","tag-josef-albers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}