| Artist | Akira Rabelais |
| Title | Caduceus |
| Label | Samadhisound |
| Year | 2010 |
| Designer | Art direction: David Sylvian; Design: Chris Bigg; Photography: Eric Rondepierre |
| Music | A tracery of loss embodied in crackle and hiss |
| Desktop | Download image |
| Notes | Caduceus as a musical work is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s beauty is mirrored by its cover. I particularly love the way Chris Bigg has set the track titles and Rabelais’ name over the folds of the spine. Eric Rondepierre’s imagery is breathtaking. I hadn’t encountered his work before and am grateful to have done so now – a similar experience to discovering Arnold Odermatt’s work via Tortoise’s A Lazarus Taxon.
- Akira Rabelais, Spellewauerynsherde |
As usual with SamadhiSound releases, this is the best of the best of design in music. Oh, how I wish I worked for them!!!
It’s high time Bigg and Vaughan Oliver were knighted for their services to the music industry these past 30 years or so.
A beautiful sleeve for a maverick album.