Reasonable Album Covers: 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Ernst Reijseger

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Winter & Winter, 2011

(Scanned from CD)

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (today, Moanin')

Blue Note, 1958

(Mostly free of the weird 2-tone striping found here and most everywhere else)

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Ravi Shankar

The Genius of Ravi Shankar

Columbia Records, 1972

(Original cover, reconstructed from LP.)

In Concert, 1972

Apple Records

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Allan Holdsworth

Road Games

Warner Bros., 1983

Metal Fatigue

Enigma Records, 1985

Secrets

Intima Records, 1989

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Sun Ra has probably the largest and most widely issued catalog in the history of recorded music, and the task of tracking when any bit of music was recorded or (often decades later) released has actually been the sole topic of multiple book-length features by an assortment of daring musicologists. His own record label, Saturn, often issued records with blank or hand drawn covers in extremely limited pressings that would simply disappear into the sands of time. As such the following titles are presented alphabetically and rarely captioned by more than a title. Good luck.

Angels and Demons at Play

(Original design, reconstructed from parts of several extremely low res images, approximating the original design as nearly as possible.)

Aurora Borealis

(Reconstruction of original, hand-drawn Saturn release cover from 1981, adapted from Popsike)

Fate in a Pleasant Mood

(1974 Impulse! reissue)

A Fireside Chat with Lucifer

(Adapted from Discogs)

The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra, Vol. 1

(Recent reissues)

The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra, Vol. 2

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

Interstellar Low Ways

(Original)

Lanquidity

Mayan Temples

The Nubians of Plutonia

(Jaw-dropping effort from the 1974 Impulse! reissue)

Nuclear War

Other Planes of There

Sound of Joy

Unity

Visits Planet Earth

(Reconstructed)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Ennio Morricone's Leone Soundtracks

Album covers for the soundtracks Ennio Morricone composed for the last 6 of Sergio Leone's 7 movies. Each soundtrack has been issued countless times - often by a staggeringly large number of labels, particularly for the first two.

A Fistful of Dollars

Film released in 1964

For a Few Dollars More

Film released in 1965

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Film released in 1966

Once Upon a Time in the West

Film released in 1968

Duck, You Sucker! (or: A Fistful of Dynamite)

Film released in 1971

Once Upon a Time in America

Film released in 1984

Morricone Awards

2006 compilation released by Mediane to coincide with Morricone's Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, containing the themes to both Once Upon a Time films and 18 other career-spanning tracks.