Martyn Bates – Your Jewled Footsteps
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Artist: Martyn Bates
Album: Your Jewled Footsteps
Label: Sub Rosa
Year: 2006
Designer: Concept and photo by Dominique Goblet, design by Twin Peaks Mount, ‘musicians environment series, Nuneaton, May 2006′
Type of music: Folk, sort of
Notes: Putting aside the deliberately mis-spelled album title (which doesn’t sit well with me at all!), what fascinates about Your Jewled Footsteps is the domestic focus of the imagery. We’re privileged with a view into Bates’ ordinary, ’50s suburban semi. The heavy saturation of the colours, the rain, the oblique portraits and the focus upon light combine to create a subdued, but powerful setting for the singer’s impassioned music.
My copy of this CD isn’t in quite the same state it was when I took these photographs. Balanced precariously on the CD player by the cooker in the kitchen, it feel onto a lighted hob and is now quite severely charred…
Reminds of George Shaw’s paintings of Coventry (just down the road from Nuneaton).
amazing. reminds me of the photo collage designs which accompany keith fullerton whitman’s later albums. specifically Playthroughs and Multiples.
Though not identical, still quite similar to this dude:
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=188235