Previously on OPIUM HUM:
John Taylor, Norma Winston, & Kenny Wheeler - Azimuth (1977)
That album cover really is awful, huh? I suppose the actual art itself isn't so bad, but those fonts, and the overall composition? It looks like a self-help book about how bipolar depression can effect your marriage or something.
Which is a shame, because the music is positively gorgeous ambient jazz. Wheeler's trumpet/flugelhorn, Friedman's vibraphone, and van 't Hof's piano make for beautiful, contemplative bedfellows, effortlessly combining and dispersing, allowing for a sense of dynamic and movement even as the volume rarely goes beyond a gentle murmur.
Track listing:
1. Zambon
2. Everybody's Song but My Own
3. Truvib
4. Greenhouse Fables
5. Farm
6. Salina Street
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Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair. [Saadi] - https://lianahelas.blogspot.com/2023/06/bzw-falak-1996-fur-klavier-von-r-ol.html
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ReplyDeleteI think the cover is beautiful
Indeed the cover looks to enwrap some new age whimsy of the most saccharine order. I thought that font/size/color mixing was dead and gone by 1988, but I am corrected. (FWIW, John Mayer absolutely nailed 80s pop album cover art with his recent Sob Rock release. The music contained therein you'll have to investigate for yourself.) Blessings and thanks for the post.
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