{"id":13778,"date":"2013-05-15T01:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2013-05-15T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T00:55:56","slug":"tadanori-yokoo-album-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/15\/tadanori-yokoo-album-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadanori Yokoo album covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=3634675\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Kokoro No Uramado (1969) by Asaoka Ruriko.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few examples of Tadanori Yokoo&#8217;s earlier cover designs which are the ones I prefer. Although he&#8217;s continued to produce collage art for music releases, the CD format does his work few favours. I lose interest musically in Santana after about 1970 so I&#8217;d not looked properly at their triple-live set <em>Lotus<\/em> before, an album which is one of those worth having for the cover alone. Worth having for the cover <em>and<\/em> the music is Miles Davis&#8217;s thundering jazz-rock monolith <em>Agharta<\/em> which for some reason was given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=61310\" target=\"_blank\">a different cover<\/a> by Elena Pavlov on its US and European release. For\u00a0Yokoo&#8217;s more recent cover art see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Tadanori+Yokoo#Credits_Visual=&amp;t=Credits_Visual&amp;q=&amp;p=1\" target=\"_blank\">his Discogs page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1473317\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo02.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lotus (1974) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1473317\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo03.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lotus (1974) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1473317\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo04.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lotus (1974) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1473317\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo05.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lotus (1974) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1473317\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo06.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lotus (1974) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=595807\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo07.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Agharta (1975) by Miles Davis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=595807\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo08.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Agharta (1975) by Miles Davis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1058763\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amigos (1976) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1058763\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amigos (1976) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1058763\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amigos (1976) by Santana.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/viewimages?release=1058763\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yokoo12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yokoo12.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Amigos (1976) by Santana.<\/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>Kokoro No Uramado (1969) by Asaoka Ruriko. A few examples of Tadanori Yokoo&#8217;s earlier cover designs which are the ones I prefer. Although he&#8217;s continued to produce collage art for music releases, the CD format does his work few favours. I lose interest musically in Santana after about 1970 so I&#8217;d not looked properly at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/15\/tadanori-yokoo-album-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tadanori Yokoo 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":[2,1029,4,3,17],"tags":[4781,4782,1515,4783,662],"class_list":["post-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","category-design","category-music","category-psychedelia","tag-asaoka-ruriko","tag-elena-pavlov","tag-miles-davis","tag-santana","tag-tadanori-yokoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Ae","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","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=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}