{"id":19294,"date":"2019-09-13T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2019-09-13T02:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:41:02","slug":"francois-schuiten-record-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/09\/13\/francois-schuiten-record-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten record covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Claudine Simon (1980) by Claudine Simon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. Belgian artist Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten is a familiar name here, being the co-creator with\u00a0Beno\u00eet Peeters of the Obscure World, one of my favourite zones of fantastic invention. The Obscure World has grown to become a multimedia endeavour so Schuiten’s involvement with some of the later entries in this post goes beyond providing the cover art to being connected to the music itself.<\/p>\n

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De Wolkentrapper (1983) by Herman van Veen.<\/em><\/p>\n

Herman van Veen is a Dutch writer and singer who produced a number of albums and singles in the 1980s featuring Schuiten cover art. The gravity-defying people are from an early comic strip unattached to the Obscure World mythos, Going to Pieces<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Signale (1984) by Herman van Veen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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De Wisselaars (1985) by Herman van Veen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sedimental Journey (1985) by Peter Principle.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Obscure World makes its cover debut on this solo release by the late Peter Principle, bass player in Tuxedomoon. Principle was American but Tuxedomoon were based at the time in Europe, and their record label, Crammed are Belgian. Obscure World aficionados will recognise the structure about to be submerged by a vast wave as the Network, an inexplicable object first seen in Fever in Urbicand<\/em><\/a> (1985).<\/p>\n

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Anne (1986) by Herman van Veen.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Zo Vrolijk (1986) by Herman van Veen.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Megapoles (1999) by Proc\u00e9d\u00e9 Rodesco Letort.<\/em><\/p>\n

And speaking of Urbicand, Megapoles<\/em> is an album of short instrumentals by Bruno Letort and Stefan Rodesco the last of which is titled Urbicand<\/em>. That’s also a panel from the Fever in Urbicand<\/em> story on the cover. Interior notes by\u00a0Beno\u00eet Peeters.<\/p>\n

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L’Affaire Desombres (2001) by Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten Et Beno\u00eet Peeters, Bruno Letort.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bruno Retort’s soundtrack for a “multimedia enigma\/show<\/a>” about Auguste Desombres, an artist of the Obscure World.<\/p>\n

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La Tectonique Des Nuages (2010) by Laurent Cugny.<\/em><\/p>\n

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L’Horloger du R\u00eave (2013) by Bruno Letort.<\/em><\/p>\n

More soundtracks or imaginary scores by Bruno Letort for the Obscure World and its inhabitants.\u00a0Le Monde Sonore De Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/em> was a limited double-vinyl release.<\/p>\n

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Le Monde Sonore De Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten (2014) by Bruno Letort.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ten Songs About Real Utopia (2015) by Daniel Erdmann \/ Samuel Rohrer \/ Vincent Courtois \/ Frank M\u00f6bus.<\/em><\/p>\n

An album of contemporary jazz.<\/p>\n

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Mechanics (2015) by\u00a0Sylvain Rifflet. <\/em><\/p>\n

Another album of contemporary jazz with a final nod to the Obscure World in its view of one of the enormous mechanical machines of Armilia.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Le Dossier B by Schuiten and Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Urbatecture<\/a>
\n\u2022 Echoes of the Cities<\/a>
\n\u2022 Further tales from the Obscure World<\/a>
\n\u2022 Br\u00fcsel by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La route d\u2019Armilia by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La Tour by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 La fi\u00e8vre d\u2019Urbicande by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 Les Murailles de Samaris by Schuiten & Peeters<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten<\/a>
\n\u2022 Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claudine Simon (1980) by Claudine Simon. Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. Belgian artist Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten is a familiar name here, being the co-creator with\u00a0Beno\u00eet Peeters of the Obscure World, one of my favourite zones of fantastic invention. The Obscure World has grown to become a … Continue reading “Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten record covers”<\/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":[2,9,4,21,3],"tags":[712,7748,10222,10227,710,10229,10223,10226,349,714,10224,1663,8874,10225,10230,1611,10228],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-design","category-fantasy","category-music","tag-benoit-peeters","tag-bruno-letort","tag-claudine-simon","tag-daniel-erdmann","tag-francois-schuiten","tag-frank-mobus","tag-herman-van-veen","tag-laurent-cugny","tag-paul-delvaux","tag-peter-principle","tag-procede-rodesco-letort","tag-raoul-servais","tag-samuel-rohrer","tag-stefan-rodesco","tag-sylvain-rifflet","tag-tuxedomoon","tag-vincent-courtois"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-51c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","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=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}