{"id":5054,"date":"2009-04-30T02:47:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T01:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2011-11-11T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:36:48","slug":"gandharva-by-beaver-krause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/30\/gandharva-by-beaver-krause\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandharva by Beaver & Krause"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I mentioned Wilfried S\u00e4tty’s collage work last week<\/a> and this album sports one of his few cover designs. A cult object for several reasons, not least S\u00e4tty’s involvement. The title lettering was by fellow psychedelic artist David Singer<\/a> who I had the good fortune to meet in California in 2005 whilst researching S\u00e4tty’s career. That chunky Seventies lettering style now looks distinctly contemporary having come back into fashion over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

Beaver & Krause were among the pioneers of Moog-based electronic music in the 1960s and notably provided the throbs and drones which Jack Nitzsche mixed into the soundtrack for Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg’s Performance<\/em><\/a>. Gandharva<\/em> was released in 1971 and one of the few all-electronic pieces on the album, Nine Moons in Alaska<\/em>, is an outtake from those sessions. The first side is very uneven, with a blues jam and a gospel piece that don’t sit well with each other, never mind with the Moog tracks. Side two, however, is a far more successful suite of improvisations with organ, electronics, guitar, harp and saxophone (played by Gerry Mulligan) recorded live in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Cover photo from the Psychedelic Music Flickr pool<\/a> which features many fine examples of cover design from the late Sixties on.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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\n\u2022 Ginsberg\u2019s Howl and the view from the street<\/a>
\n\u2022 Further back and faster<\/a>
\n\u2022 Quite a performance<\/a>
\n\u2022 Borges in Performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned Wilfried S\u00e4tty’s collage work last week and this album sports one of his few cover designs. A cult object for several reasons, not least S\u00e4tty’s involvement. The title lettering was by fellow psychedelic artist David Singer who I had the good fortune to meet in California in 2005 whilst researching S\u00e4tty’s career. That … Continue reading “Gandharva by Beaver & Krause”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1029,4,29,48,3,17],"tags":[370,369,371,372,7968,306,356,102],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-collage","category-design","category-electronica","category-illustrators","category-music","category-psychedelia","tag-beaver-krause","tag-david-singer","tag-donald-cammell","tag-gerry-mulligan","tag-jack-nitzsche","tag-nicolas-roeg","tag-nyarlathotep","tag-wilfried-satty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}