“Well, there’s that Santana album…” I said to Mr SDS this morning, as I pictured the cover to 'Abraxas' in my mind. We were trying to think of album covers with birds on them. No, not that kind of bird. I know, there are plenty of album covers with those on. And - if you’ve now got the image of the curvaceous naked woman on 'Abraxas' in your head - I’m not talking about, ahem, tits either (but, oh, you knew I had to put a ‘tit’ joke in there somewhere…) There are plenty of album covers with those on too. I was thinking of the white dove at her lap, subtley preserving a little of her modesty.
We’ve got this album cover lying around at home; it somehow ended up in our possession without the record itself:-
The artwork is so 1970s. (Oops, UPDATE: it was released in 1969.) I like the bold colours and slightly crude drawing style, plus the subject itself, even if it is a rather obviously literal interpretation of the name and could have been a fifth-former’s art class project. With no vinyl to protect now it has no use - but it could be ornament and may yet end up on the wall, rather than gathering dust, unseen, elsewhere.
Other albums with feathered friends on them? I'm still racking my birdbrain.
The artwork is so 1970s. (Oops, UPDATE: it was released in 1969.) I like the bold colours and slightly crude drawing style, plus the subject itself, even if it is a rather obviously literal interpretation of the name and could have been a fifth-former’s art class project. With no vinyl to protect now it has no use - but it could be ornament and may yet end up on the wall, rather than gathering dust, unseen, elsewhere.
Other albums with feathered friends on them? I'm still racking my birdbrain.
