{"id":17267,"date":"2015-09-22T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17267"},"modified":"2015-09-22T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:01:36","slug":"the-original-gandharva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/22\/the-original-gandharva\/","title":{"rendered":"The original Gandharva"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cover art by Wilfried S\u00e4tty. Lettering by David Singer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Collage artist Wilfried S\u00e4tty has been in my thoughts this month, it being ten years ago that Jay Babcock, Richard Pleuger and I drove up to San Francisco and Petaluma to talk to Walter Medeiros and David Singer about S\u00e4tty’s life and work. Looking today at the S\u00e4tty cover art for Gandharva<\/em> (1971) by Beaver & Krause reminded me that the original pressing of this album came with the sleeve in a predominantly pink colouration rather than the more familiar blue. I have three copies of the album\u2014vinyl and two CDs, one of which pairs it with Beaver & Krause’s In A Wild Sanctuary<\/em> (1970)\u2014but I’ve never seen one of the pink variations, and didn’t even know they existed until they started appearing on the web. The CD reissues favour the blue version, as do I, although this may only be a result of familiarity. I’ve enthused about S\u00e4tty’s cover a couple of times already but the music is worth hearing for its connections backwards to Cammell & Roeg’s Performance<\/em> (for which B&K provided the ominous synthesizer tones), and forwards to Robert Fuest’s The Final Programme<\/em>. Fuest asked Gerry Mulligan to score his film after hearing the Gandharva<\/em> suite (described in the sleeve notes as “a score from a non-existent film”) which occupies side two of the album.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The Occult Explosion<\/a>
\n\u2022 Wilfried S\u00e4tty album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nature Boy: Jesper Ryom and Wilfried S\u00e4tty<\/a>
\n\u2022 Wilfried S\u00e4tty: Artist of the occult<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #4: Wilfried S\u00e4tty<\/a>
\n\u2022 Gandharva by Beaver & Krause<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover art by Wilfried S\u00e4tty. Lettering by David Singer. Collage artist Wilfried S\u00e4tty has been in my thoughts this month, it being ten years ago that Jay Babcock, Richard Pleuger and I drove up to San Francisco and Petaluma to talk to Walter Medeiros and David Singer about S\u00e4tty’s life and work. Looking today at … Continue reading “The original Gandharva”<\/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":[2,1029,4,29,7,3],"tags":[370,369,372,1801,3836,7633,1388,7634,102],"class_list":["post-17267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","tag-beaver-krause","tag-david-singer","tag-gerry-mulligan","tag-jay-babcock","tag-jesper-ryom","tag-richard-pleuger","tag-robert-fuest","tag-walter-medeiros","tag-wilfried-satty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267","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=17267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}