{"id":17624,"date":"2016-01-11T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T01:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17624"},"modified":"2016-01-11T01:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T01:01:35","slug":"single-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/11\/single-sleeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Single sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A septet of 7-inch single sleeves from <a href=\"https:\/\/easternblocsongs.wordpress.com\/45s-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Bloc Songs<\/a>, a small but well-selected repository of sleeve art from the record labels of the Eastern Bloc. I&#8217;d looked at the album art before but had missed the singles, some of which feature more impressive designs than their 12-inch counterparts. Of special interest are designs that show how the psychedelic styles of the decadent West were transmuted for a Communist audience. The <em>Nautilus<\/em> sleeve above dates from 1969, and uses the lettering adapted by Wes Wilson from a much earlier design by Alfred Roller. Elsewhere the generic sleeves from venerable Czech label Supraphon stand out for their modish graphics. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/crossedcombs.typepad.com\/recordenvelope\/\" target=\"_blank\">Record Envelope<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingsmagazine.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Things Magazine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"singles07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/singles07.jpg\" \/><\/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>A septet of 7-inch single sleeves from Eastern Bloc Songs, a small but well-selected repository of sleeve art from the record labels of the Eastern Bloc. I&#8217;d looked at the album art before but had missed the singles, some of which feature more impressive designs than their 12-inch counterparts. Of special interest are designs that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/11\/single-sleeves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Single sleeves&#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":[4,3,17,10],"tags":[945,947],"class_list":["post-17624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-music","category-psychedelia","category-typography","tag-alfred-roller","tag-wes-wilson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624","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=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}