If you can find a copy of Avante Garde 3 the anonymous artists on the second cover is featured. There's a double double spread of a large mandala and several other works featured. I'll get some pics in the daylight.
There’s a double double spread of a large mandala and several other works featured.
Would that be the Lotus album cover? I still remember borrowing that from a high school pal and being blown away by the whole package -- the music, the artwork, the continuous recording fading in and out at the beginning and end of each LP's sides.
11.Nov.2007 6.46pm
What a throwback. Reminds me of those fantasy covers by Yes, Boston, and E.L.O.
11.Nov.2007 6.55pm
If I look at that new one anymore I’ll start to cry.
But I’m sure it will stick out on the Best Buy endcap, so I guess the design is at least successful from a pragmatic standpoint.
On a related note, mainstream album covers were better when they could have tits. Damn the Walton family for their backward ways…
11.Nov.2007 7.04pm
If you can find a copy of Avante Garde 3 the anonymous artists on the second cover is featured. There's a double double spread of a large mandala and several other works featured. I'll get some pics in the daylight.
11.Nov.2007 7.18pm
Mati Klarwein's painting Annunciation (1961) was used for the cover of Abraxas.
Robert Venosa did the lettering.
11.Nov.2007 7.22pm
Boy, does that feel tacked on. Would it have killed their budget to hire a lettering artist to do it right? Sad.
11.Nov.2007 7.23pm
Is Venosa still around? He should have done it.
12.Nov.2007 6.40am
There’s a double double spread of a large mandala and several other works featured.
Would that be the Lotus album cover? I still remember borrowing that from a high school pal and being blown away by the whole package -- the music, the artwork, the continuous recording fading in and out at the beginning and end of each LP's sides.
12.Nov.2007 8.54am
Thanks Nick for the name, always thought it was odd that they didn't mention.
As promised—