{"id":20546,"date":"2021-04-26T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20546"},"modified":"2022-04-27T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:07:57","slug":"hokusai-record-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/04\/26\/hokusai-record-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokusai record covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes (Nuages, F\u00eates, Sir\u00e8nes) (1959); Orchestra Of The Cento Soli And Choir Of The Paris Opera, Louis Fourestier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. In the case of Katsushika Hokusai it’s all about the waves, or one wave in particular. The Great Wave off Kanegawa<\/em> (1830) is not only the most well-known of all the prints in the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji<\/em> series, but it occupies the unique position of representing to the rest of the world the nation from which it originates. Claude Debussy deserves much of the credit for elevating the popularity of the wave print after he used it in 1905 as an illustration on the cover of the sheet music for La Mer<\/em>. Consequently, the print is an inevitable choice for art directors who require cover art for Debussy recordings. The example above is the first in a long line, many of which are omitted here in favour of other prints. The landscape format of this view, and that of many other Hokusai prints, means that the art is usually cropped to suit the square of the album cover. The results aren’t always successful.<\/p>\n

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Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Delibes, Adam: Ballet Favourites: Highlights From The Nutcracker\/Carnaval\/Copp\u00e9lia\/Giselle (1964); Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Ernest Ansermet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Switched On East (1971) by M. Sato. Art: Fine Wind, Clear Morning, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
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A gatefold sleeve for one of the many “switched-on” Moog albums released to capitalise on the success of Switched-On Bach<\/em> by Wendy Carlos. (Tomita recorded Switched On Hit & Rock<\/em> a year later.) M. Sato gives a collection of Japanese folk tunes the synthesizer treatment.<\/p>\n

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Lyrical Melodies Of Japan (1980) by Andr\u00e1s Adorj\u00e1n & Ayako Shinozaki.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sakura: Japanese Melodies For Flute And Harp (1990) by Jean-Pierre Rampal And Lily Laskine.<\/em><\/p>\n

A reissue with collaged artwork by Paula Sher of an album first released in 1969.<\/p>\n

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Strange Free World (1990) by Kitchens Of Distinction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hokusai’s Great Wave is flipped (not for the first time on an album cover) and also inverted.<\/p>\n

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The Flute Of The Misty Sea (1996) by Andreas Fuy\u00fb Gutzwiller.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Artesian Spirits (2005) by Lauren Newton\/Patrick Scheyder\/Vladimir Tarasov. Art: Pilgrims at Kirifuri Waterfall on Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province.
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{Sparks} (2008) by Peter Evans\/Tom Blancarte. Art: Thunder God.
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Dystopia (2009) by Kibuka.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Great Wave again in a state of deterioration.<\/p>\n

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Le Tombeau De Debussy (2011) by Jan Michiels. Art: Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
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Live In Tokyo (2014) by The Crimson Projekct.<\/em><\/p>\n

A King Crimson offshoot.<\/p>\n

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Yeah (2014) by John Duncan\/Jim O’Rourke.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another collage cover, the foreground being occupied by a detail of the notorious dreaming fisherman’s wife<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hokusai \u2013 Piano Solo (2019) by Aki Takase. Art: Tama River in Musashi Province, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
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\n\u2022 The album covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 16 views of Meoto Iwa<\/a>
\n\u2022 Waves and clouds<\/a>
\n\u2022 Yoshitoshi\u2019s ghosts<\/a>
\n\u2022 Japanese moons<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Hell Courtesan<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nocturnes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes (Nuages, F\u00eates, Sir\u00e8nes) (1959); Orchestra Of The Cento Soli And Choir Of The Paris Opera, Louis Fourestier. Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. In the case of Katsushika Hokusai it’s all about the waves, or one wave in particular. The Great Wave … Continue reading “Hokusai 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: Hokusai 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":[2,4,3],"tags":[11413,11396,11402,11397,4668,9372,11409,11398,11412,12191,11408,343,11401,11403,11399,11395,11404,11400,11406,11410,11407,11405],"class_list":["post-20546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-music","tag-aki-takase","tag-andras-adorjan","tag-andreas-fuyu-gutzwiller","tag-ayako-shinozaki","tag-claude-debussy","tag-hokusai","tag-jan-michiels","tag-jean-pierre-rampal","tag-jim-orourke","tag-john-duncan-musician","tag-kibuka-group","tag-king-crimson","tag-kitchens-of-distinction","tag-lauren-newton","tag-lily-laskine","tag-m-sato","tag-patrick-scheyder","tag-paula-sher","tag-peter-evans","tag-the-crimson-projekct","tag-tom-blancarte","tag-vladimir-tarasov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5lo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546","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=20546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}