Cover Story: Album Cover Art

Waxpoetics continue sur sa lancée exemplaire avec son deuxième livre: “Cover Story: Album Cover Art”. Toute l’équipe de Waxpoetics y sélectionne et commente 240 visuels d’albums plus ou moins obscurs piochés dans différents styles de musique, que ce soit de la soul, du funk, du jazz ou de la musiques latine. Un achat indispensable pour les mordus de pièces rares et de visuels étonnants.

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*“Cover Story: Album Cover Art” vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Records possess a visual as well as an aural capacity for storytelling. The record cover—eye candy for the music lover—speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itself. And, more intimately, a record can create a profound sense of analogy with its owner, and it’s this relationship that we share.

Preface by Brian DiGenti and introduction by Dave Tompkins. The Wax Poetics team handpicked twenty albums apiece, 240 albums in all, twelve chapters: editor-in-chief Andre Torres; editor Brian DiGenti; contributing editors Matt Rogers, Andrew “DJ Monk One” Mason, Dante Carfagna, and J. P. Jones; contributing photo editor Brian “B+” Cross; contributing writers Jeff “Chairman” Mao, Oliver Wang, Robbie Busch, and Dave Tompkins; and label head Amir Abdullah.*