Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[Peter Power Pop]

I'm curious as to which actual pieces of music are being played on this album?

PD

p.s.  I'd expect all of that CO2 that they are expelling whilst playing is good for them!  The plants I mean.

Here's the Discogs link.

[Madiel]

There you go, I should have read the back cover. Absolutely they were going for the "It's Science!" market.

[KevinP]

Again, hardly the worst, but it sure makes the title look like cheap junk.

And the very unnecessary quotation marks look more like scare quotes.

[Symphonic Addict]

I saw this in WAY2N thread:

[Madiel]

I saw this in WAY2N thread:

Any clues as to what music is on the album??

[Symphonic Addict]

Any clues as to what music is on the album??

Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
Rudi Stephan: Music for orchestra

Performed by: Kirill Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker

[JBS]

I saw this in WAY2N thread:

I was tempted to post it here when Todd first posted it in the Purchases thread.
WHAT IS IT?

It looks like a jawbone with teeth in place..

[Symphonic Addict]

I was tempted to post it here when Todd first posted it in the Purchases thread.
WHAT IS IT?

It looks like a jawbone with teeth in place..

That was exactly my question. Looks rather weird if you ask me.

[Peter Power Pop]

I saw this in WAY2N thread:

That made me laugh out loud.

[Symphonic Addict]

That made me laugh out loud.

I didn't expect that reaction from anyone!

[Peter Power Pop]

I didn't expect that reaction from anyone!

A part of me wants to know what it is, but another part of me doesn't want to know at all because it'll probably end up being something utterly ordinary.

At the moment, though, it's anything but ordinary.

That cover is one of the freakiest things I've ever seen for classical music.

[AnotherSpin]

I saw this in WAY2N thread:

The cover matches the conductor. Is it possible to imagine such a cover in the Karajan era with the BPO?

[Valentino]

I would not guess what that is, but it's probably not Karajan decomposing.

[AnotherSpin]

I would not guess what that is, but it's probably not Karajan decomposing.

If it were a Karajan fragment, that would be the only remarkable thing about this release.

[pjme]

Achtung! Art -  Vorsicht ! Kunst !

It is a work by Rosemarie Trockel : "Art brut"

"Nicht weniger aufwändig ist die ästhetische Umsetzung der Hardcover-Editionen. Jede Produktion erscheint in einem exklusiven Design mit umfangreichem Booklet. Die Bildsprache des Layouts entsteht in Kooperation mit bekannten Künstlerinnen und Künstlern wie Rosemarie Trockel oder Wolfgang Tillmans. Auf diese Weise vermitteln die Produktionen der Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings – gefragte Collector's Items – ein umfassendes multimediales Musikerlebnis."

"The aesthetic implementation of the hardcover editions is no less complex. Each production appears in an exclusive design with a comprehensive booklet. The visual language of the layout is created in cooperation with well-known artists such as Rosemarie Trockel or Wolfgang Tillmans. In this way, the productions of the Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings convey- popular collector's items - a comprehensive multimedia music experience."

Rosemarie

Source: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/about-us.html?___store=rec_de

Wolfgang

and, more generally : art brut

[Madiel]

My bigger concern is simply the lack of any text to identify the music. Though this could be a little misleading. There's a box set which DOES have text, and maybe this is just one disc out of the box?

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/petrenko-edition-1.html

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I was thinking that it was perhaps dentures for a dinosaur? 🧐

PD

[pjme]

https://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art58/5059758-08fbe2-4260306183548_01.pdf

and:
Since the early 1980s, Rosemarie Trockel (born in Schwerte in 1952) has been one of the most versatile and pioneering female artists in contemporary art. Her collages, knitted pictures, sculptures, installations and film works explore social role-models, gender-specific behaviour and cultural codes which she combines with discourses from philosophy, theology, and the natural sciences. In these works, Trockel investigates both contemporary and historical discourses concerning artistic and social identity. Her feminist perspective challenges the concept of the male artistic genius and formulates an emphatic criticism both of the art world and of restrictive social norms with regard to social and sexual identity. Her first exhibitions took place at the galleries of Monika Sprüth in Cologne and Philomene Magers in Bonn, both in 1983. Most recently, her works have been exhibited at Moderna Museet in Malmö (2018/19), at the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin (2016), and at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2015). In 2012/13, she presented a touring exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the New Museum in New York, and the Serpentine Gallery in London, plus another touring exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, the Culturgest in Lisbon and the Museion in Bolzano. Her 2005 retrospective "Post-Menopause" was shown at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and at the MAXXI in Rome. In 1999, she became the first female artist to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, and in 1997, she took part in documenta X in Kassel.

[Peter Power Pop]

Beauty Farm are at it again:

[KevinP]

Yikes.

The second one is more meh than terrible, but the first one has enough terrible left over to cover it.

How is the music, by the way? Anyone heard it?