The album Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vilet) and His Magic Band is a masterpiece of free jazz, blues, rock and roll, and avant-garde; encompassing elements from those genres and combining them into a twenty-eight song album. This album is highly regarded in the world of rock and popular music, and is universally believed to be his greatest musical works ever. Although it failed to chart in the United States, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 60th in their list of the 500
When listening to ‘Dog’ by Bob Dorough from the album ‘Jazz Canto – Volume 1’ before listening to the track ‘Ella Guru’ from Trout Mask Replica, there are a number of comparisons to be drawn, specifically with the lyrics and vocal delivery. More than anything, it’s the fast cadence and playful style, when Dorough delivers lines such as “The dog trots freely in the street, and what he sees is reality, and the things he sees are bigger than himself, and the things he sees are his reality”, in many
The connection between a designer and music used to be relatively simple, but now that music has become a primarily digital-first experience, and music’s visual side has moved from record sleeves to tiny icons in our playlists, where does that leave room for design in music in popular culture? If you look back in time, music and image were completely separate. previous to 1939, records were packaged in a plain white paper sleeve, which was used purely to protect the vinyl. These paper sleeves didn't