{"id":20224,"date":"2020-12-04T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2020-12-09T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:54:21","slug":"harry-clarke-record-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/12\/04\/harry-clarke-record-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Clarke record covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hector Berlioz: Highlights From La Damnation De Faust (1960); Paris Opera Orchestra And Chorus, Andr\u00e9 Cluytens.\u00a0 Artwork: “I wish you had something else to do than torment me when I’m quiet” from Faust (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. Harry Clarke would have been added to this list some time ago but it’s taken a while for Discogs to fill in the gaps ignored by its dominant core of techno-techno-techno<\/em> obsessives. Clarke’s work is also much more visible today, as a result of which many of the releases here are very recent. The viral nature of internet popularity is a great thing for artists whose work can be shared and appreciated instantly. The drawback is demonstrated by the following albums, many of which recycle the same few drawings from Clarke’s Poe and Faust<\/em> volumes. I’m sure the musicians who relish Clarke’s work for its grotesque or decadent qualities would find something equally appealing in his Swinburne illustrations if they sought them out. As before, this is probably an incomplete list so if anyone knows of other suitable candidates then please leave a comment.<\/p>\n

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Tales of Terror (1971) read by Nelson Olmsted. Artwork: The Man of the Crowd from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (second edition, 1923).<\/em><\/p>\n

A double album of readings from horror stories. I used to own this one, mainly for the cover since I don’t recall playing it very much. The gatefold interior features Clarke’s painting for The Fall of the House of Usher<\/em> together with a note from beyond the grave by HP Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

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Hector Berlioz \/ Claude Debussy: La Damnation De Faust \/ La Damoiselle Elue (1988); Suzanne Danco, David Poleri, Martial Singher, Donald Gramm, Victoria De Los Angeles, Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Artwork: “Forward! Forward!\u2014Faster! Faster!” from Faust (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n

The classical labels are at least justified in their use of the Faust<\/em> illustrations. This cropped painting is one of two pieces depicting Faust and Mephistopheles on horseback that suggest Clarke’s parallel career as a stained-glass artist.<\/p>\n

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New Dark Age (1998) by Solstice. Artwork: collage of drawings from Faust (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mythical & Magical (2008) by Pagan Altar. Artwork: collage of drawings from Faust (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Year Naught Doom (2012) by On Pain Of Death. Artwork: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (first edition, 1919).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Second Breath (2013) by Manticore’s Breath. Artwork: Morella from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (first edition, 1919).<\/em><\/p>\n

A die-cut outer sleeve shows details of the illustration which is revealed in full on the inner sleeve (below). More Clarke illustrations from Faust<\/em> decorate the interior.<\/p>\n

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Volume II (2015) by New Light Choir. Artwork: Vignette from The Year’s at the Spring (1920).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Todo Modo (2015) by Todo Modo. Artwork: Vignette from Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1922).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blade Of Heresy (2016) by Werian. Artwork: Vignette from Faust (1925).<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Greatest Story Ever Told (2017) by Kvalm.<\/em><\/p>\n

It may be “the greatest story ever told” but the cover design is almost identical to the On Pain Of Death album from only five years before.<\/p>\n

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Melody Fields (2018) by Melody Fields. Artwork: Descent into the Maelstr\u00f6m from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (first edition, 1919).
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Clarke’s work is on the back cover only; the drawing has also been horizontally flipped.<\/p>\n

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The Righteous Bloom (2018) by Beelzefuzz. Artwork: Morella from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (first edition, 1919).<\/em><\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Added another album of horror readings from the Vanguard label. This one seems to be uncredited so didn’t turn up in previous searches.<\/p>\n

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Sleep No More! Famous Ghost And Horror Stories (1956) read by Nelson Olmstead. Artwork: A collage of figures from Tales of Mystery and Imagination (first edition, 1919).<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Thomas Bodkin on Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke: His Graphic Art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke and others in The Studio<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke in colour<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Tinderbox<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke and the Elixir of Life<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cardwell Higgins versus Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Modern book illustrators, 1914<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s stained glass<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s The Year\u2019s at the Spring<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Harry Clarke, 1889\u20131931<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hector Berlioz: Highlights From La Damnation De Faust (1960); Paris Opera Orchestra And Chorus, Andr\u00e9 Cluytens.\u00a0 Artwork: “I wish you had something else to do than torment me when I’m quiet” from Faust (1925). Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. Harry Clarke would have been added … Continue reading “Harry Clarke 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":"New blog post: Harry Clarke record covers","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":[2,30,42,4,22,48,3],"tags":[2691,3366,93,99,1687,10664],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-music","tag-algernon-swinburne","tag-charles-perrault","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-harry-clarke","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224","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=20224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}