Honny & The Bees Band Psychedelic Woman
Amazing funky tune from seventies Ghana…wish I could find more of their stuff. Any ideas let me know!
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Where Foxes Meet Owls
Abdul Mati Klarwein Blessing (1965)
More crazy colorful psychedelic art from the late Klarwein, bless him!
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Abdul Mati Klarwein Jimi Hendrix Portrait (1970)
This image was to accompany a Jimi Hendrix project with Gil Evans but Hendrix died before the project reached fruition.
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Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970) Vinyl Cover
Abdul Mati Klarwein designed the artwork for this experimental improvisation jazz work by Davis and company; and what incredible company he keeps too on this album, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and loads of other great musicians. It’s not to everyones tastes but certainly when you’re in the mood to trip out it’s exciting.
Click on the image to see it on a bigger scale, and I have posted more of his amazing artwork above.
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Thelonius Monk Solo Monk (1965) Vinyl Cover
A beautiful album of Monk solo renditions of a bunch of well known tunes like I Should Care and These Foolish Things. Beautiful.
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Nina Simone In Concert Vinyl Cover
Live at Carnegie Hall, NYC (March/April 1964)
This concert is most well known for the emergence of Simone as a protest singer when she debuted her stunning Mississippi Goddam, about the bombing of a church in Alabama by the Ku Klux Clan several months before which resulted in the deaths of four girls. It would become a signature tune for Simone and a civil rights anthem in it’s own right.
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Nina Simone Don’t Smoke In Bed
Live At Carnegie Hall, NYC (April 1964)
This beautiful track written by Willard Robison has been covered hundreds of times, most successfully on the charts by Peggy Lee. Simone recorded it for her debut album and here six years later for this wonderful live recording.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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Sophia Loren & Marcello Mastroianni
in
Matrimonio all’italiana (1964)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
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Lisa Smoking
© Sandy Powers
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Bette Davis (1971)
© Victor Skrebneski
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Aging Queens
Queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts the younger c.1595 (top)
Quentin Crisp in Orlando,1992 (bottom)
It is hardly surprising that this portrait is the least known of Gheeraerts paintings of the Queen. Only in recent years has it been confirmed as his and/or his studio’s original work and the realism of this depiction of an aging Queen was hardly to the court’s taste.
Perhaps his most well known portrait is The Ditchley Portrait painted in 1592 which hangs in the beautiful Tudor room of the portrait gallery, London.
Crisp made a wonderful aging Queen in Sally Potter’s film, closer to the physical reality than say, Helen Mirren…
P.S.
Interesting quote from the telegraph:
A 1596 order to the Privy Council commanded public officers “to aid the queen’s Sergeant Painter in seeking out unseemly portraits which were to her ‘great offence’ and therefore to be defaced and no more portraits to be produced except as approved by [the] Sergeant Painter”.
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601)
…or Bob as he was known to Elizabeth I, who took a shine to this attractive man thirty two years her junior. He was the stepson of her deceased childhood friend and great love Robert Dudley which may also account for much of the attention he received. One can speculate that this intelligent Queen was bestowing gifts upon a lover rather than a subject when she made Devereux a member of her privy council at the age of 28 and presented him with such titles as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
His incompetence and failure in this latter role (an incredible 16,000 troops to hand and he could only muster a truce with Huge O’ Neill, leader of the rebellious chieftains in Ireland) was one of several key factors in his declining fortunes at court. Consequently, financial gifts were restricted, leading to the Earl’s poorly judged attempt at rebellion against the Queen on 08th February 1601. On the 25th of the same month he would have the distinction of being the last person beheaded in the Tower of London, for treason in this case.
Listen to one of Devereux’s lyric poems set to music posted below.
Painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the younger c.1597.
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Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)/Christophe Coin (Lyra Viol)
Change thy mind since she doth change
Written by Elizabeth I’s much favored Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1566-1601), a terrible politician but he did write some good lyric poems such as Change thy mind.
This is an Elizabethan musical arrangement by Richard Martin and published by Robert Dowland in A Musicall Banquet in the year 1610. Scholl sings the entire collection in his brilliant release of the same name.
This scornful song was written in May 1597.
“Now, thou see’st although too late
Love loves truth, which women hate.”
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Jasper Johns: Target with Four Faces, 1955
Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front (MoMA)
I reblogged this from i12bent tonight and cheers. Check out thisblog for beautiful stuff, especially fine music and images like this work from one of America’s most celebrated contemporary artists.
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