Worst looking CD/LP artwork

[springrite]

What key do you moan in?

Not B flat, I assume...

[Todd]

I do not know if this was posted before.  If so, I sincerely apologize for posting it again.

[Scion7]

^ dear God - I hope the master artwork for that one was burned to ashes

[Peter Power Pop]

What?

[Madiel]

Completely horrendous.

[JBS]

I guess the ensemble wants to live down to its name.

[pjme]

"In the baroque era, the term "la folia" stood for boldness, wildness, playfulness, lust as well as an artistic attitude of freedom and exuberant creativity."
Ugly design, excellent disc however and superb musicians.
https://www.lafoliabarockorchester.net/lfbo-1

[Pohjolas Daughter]

"In the baroque era, the term "la folia" stood for boldness, wildness, playfulness, lust as well as an artistic attitude of freedom and exuberant creativity."
Ugly design, excellent disc however and superb musicians.
https://www.lafoliabarockorchester.net/lfbo-1

Thank you for that info!  I didn't know all that. 

PD

[pjme]

Interesting:

La Folia has a long history. Its distinctive chords first developed out of the folk music of late 15th-Century Portugal, where it was used in popular festivals. Its name – 'folly' or 'madness' in Italian – refers to the frenzied way peasants twirled to the music. In Santiago de Murcia's Codice Saldivar No 4, Renaissance writer Covarrubias describes La Folia as 'very noisy' while another highlights its 'vivacity and fire', its dancers 'making gestures that awaken voluptuousness'.

Source BBC: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190726-could-la-folia-be-historys-most-enduring-tune

https://www.youtube.com/v/TCmJzRtvBfI

[Scion7]

Of course. This was that label's marketing - for that particular release/issue.   Not the ensemble's fault that the ad team was experimenting with mixing LSD and furniture polish.

[ritter]

Interesting:

La Folia has a long history. Its distinctive chords first developed out of the folk music of late 15th-Century Portugal, where it was used in popular festivals. Its name – 'folly' or 'madness' in Italian – refers to the frenzied way peasants twirled to the music. In Santiago de Murcia's Codice Saldivar No 4, Renaissance writer Covarrubias describes La Folia as 'very noisy' while another highlights its 'vivacity and fire', its dancers 'making gestures that awaken voluptuousness'.

Source BBC: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190726-could-la-folia-be-historys-most-enduring-tune

https://www.youtube.com/v/TCmJzRtvBfI

And the folía (in a slow variant) has survived to this day in the folk music of the Canary Islands. Here an example:

https://www.youtube.com/v/_hVoyoXVw_s
I can't help but notice an affinity with the fandango form,

[pjme]

Of course. This was that label's marketing - for that particular release/issue.   Not the ensemble's fault that the ad team was experimenting with mixing LSD and furniture polish.

It does remain a strange and ugly design.

Inspiration for La folia varies wildly...Lärmende Lustbarkeit" (Noisy drinking binge/orgy/festivity...) is of course my favorite.

[Brian]

So close...

[MusicTurner]

So close...

That's incredible ... also, Saraste's name is difficult to read with with that shiny, white shirt as background ... and all this from a normally serious-attitude Norwegian label, advertising on the same cover as "classical quality of Norway" ...
Well, it can't be autocorrect, like with the Julius Reubke CD I have, where his name has become "Rebuke" ...

[JBS]

That's incredible ... and by the normally serious-attitude Norwegian label ...
Well, it can't be autocorrect, like with the Julius Reubke CD I have, where his name has become "Rebuke" ...

There's also the yellow font which makes it rather difficult to make out the name of the conductor and orchestra, so we can see if they're spelled correctly.

ETA: I see you were thinking the same thought at the same moment.

[Peter Power Pop]

So close...

It was the yellow-on-white text that I noticed first. "Frnacaix" I noticed second.

But it's the text that most makes me go "Golly".

[André]

That's incredible ... also, Saraste's name is difficult to read with with that shiny, white shirt as background ... and all this from a normally serious-attitude Norwegian label, advertising on the same cover as "classical quality of Norway" ...
Well, it can't be autocorrect, like with the Julius Reubke CD I have, where his name has become "Rebuke" ...

Yikes! They managed to get the diacritic  right on Martinu (don't even have it on my keyboard) but couldn't get the cédille on Françaix - or rather, Frnaçaix...

'Classical quality of Norway', proclaims the label !

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yikes! They managed to get the diacritic  right on Martinu (don't even have it on my keyboard) but couldn't get the cédille on Françaix - or rather, Frnaçaix...

'Classical quality of Norway', proclaims the label !

Yes, the name mangling on Françaix jumped out on me.  Alas, on my keyboard (as good as Macs are). they don't have the round o as possibility above a u.

PD

[pjme]

Still no cédille ....

[Madiel]

Still no cédille ....

It's probably not a terribly familiar concept in Norway, whereas Norwegian has the letter Å so writing the name Martinů would not seem that strange.