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ID a record cover please

HawkeyeHawkeye 896 Posts
edited January 2012 in Strut Central
I found this cover, but have no clue from which artist it is.

Dou you know it ?




Thanks

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  • leonleon 883 Posts
    Hawkeye said:
    I found this cover, but have no clue from which artist it is.

    Dou you know it ?




    Thanks

    Damn, that;s the illmatic inspiration. Ive seen it, that's a rare find if i can remember. Can't remember the artist name...
    No record inside?
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0032N37DE/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I think this record is real good.
    Howard Hanger is some kind of new age cult leader in Ashville NC when I checked.
    I called him but never heard back. His other records have more of a Brubeck vibe IIRC.
  • YemskyYemsky 710 Posts
    leon said:

    Damn, that;s the illmatic inspiration. Ive seen it, that's a rare find if i can remember. Can't remember the artist name...
    No record inside?

    No, I think he found it on the web.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    So what would Rae and Ghost say about shark biters, biting Nas's album cover? ;)
  • HawkeyeHawkeye 896 Posts
    Thanks for your help. And yes, I found the picture on the web, havent found the cover in real world.

    Sorry if I wrote it in a way that you misunderstood it.

    Is there any confirmation that this was a inspration for Illmatic ??
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    I think it's a coincidence. In any case, other artists, pre-hip-hop, have used a similar concept too: http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/bataan_joe~_salsoul~~_102b.jpg
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    Last month, Groove Merchant had a copy of the LP in stock. It's not a particularly interesting jazz LP but I'm assuming no one's buying it for the music.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    NEW THREAD: Post Record Covers With A Face Superimposed Over A City Scape

    I will think of one to post soon.
  • SnappingSnapping 995 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    NEW THREAD: Post Record Covers With A Face Superimposed Over A City Scape

    I will think of one to post soon.

  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    See, that Idris cover would be, in my opinion, a more likely inspiration for "Illmatic" if you had to insist on finding one.
  • leonleon 883 Posts
    mannybolone said:
    See, that Idris cover would be, in my opinion, a more likely inspiration for "Illmatic" if you had to insist on finding one.
    Not to be picky, but why do you think that? The fact that the two covers look a like is probably coincidence anyway,
    Still, these

    just don't look a lot like


    /2ct
  • TheKindCromangTheKindCromang 1,463 Posts
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I am sure there are more in this vein, but I can't dredge them up.
    I was going to post the back cover of Hampton Hawes Northern Windows, which is reminiscent of the Idris, but not at all in the same vein as the other 2.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    I forget the name of it, but there's a fairly obscure group soul LP on Hot Wax with a cover that fits this theme well.
  • strataspherestratasphere Blastin' the Nasty 1,035 Posts
    SoulOnIce said:
    I forget the name of it, but there's a fairly obscure group soul LP on Hot Wax with a cover that fits this theme well.

    Of all the Hot Wax releases, it took a long time for me to like this one.
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  • CinisterCeeCinisterCee 863 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    NEW THREAD: Post Record Covers With A Face Superimposed Over A City Scape

    I will think of one to post soon.


  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    leon said:
    mannybolone said:
    See, that Idris cover would be, in my opinion, a more likely inspiration for "Illmatic" if you had to insist on finding one.
    Not to be picky, but why do you think that?

    Because that Idris LP is something that would have been more likely to circulate in the hip-hop circles that help create "Illmatic" than Hanger's LP, which is far more obscure a title than any Kudu title.

    I'm not insisting the Hanger LP was NOT the source - obviously, a visual level, the similarities are uncanny. But as people are pointing out, the basic visual motif of superimposing a face over scenes of the city wasn't unusual in the 1970s.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    BTW: I just wrote the art designer for Illmatic; maybe she can shed some light here.
  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    How about the album actually called superimposition:

  • minimini 880 Posts
  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    I was going to post the back cover of Hampton Hawes Northern Windows, which is reminiscent of the Idris, .

    the back cover? I can't see any resemblance. I digress but I've always remembered the Idris and Hawes covers because, for Idris, well he's staring at the twin towers and I happened to be listening to it on the dreadful day, so it kinda freaked me out to make the connection whilst watching the news. Hawes, because I've never seen such a group of inmates assembled into a single group.

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts



    Like I said, it didn't work.
    I looked for an image, thinking it might, and found these. And like I said, it didn't work.
  • TheKindCromangTheKindCromang 1,463 Posts


    There. Fixed!
  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    I still don't get what "didn't work."
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Reynaldo said:
    I still don't get what "didn't work."

    I meant the HH is not a face superimposed over a city scape.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
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