22 Artist Sketches

Last month I’d posted a painter/artist song compilation that was well received plus generated a lot of comments with more possible candidates, thanks Crab Devil, Richard, and One Buck Guy.

All in all a good reason to come up with a follow up collection including some of those suggestions plus some serious Indiana Jones digging throughout the Net…

The end result is a 22 track CD (for those who still burn them!) covering this time a wider variety of musical styles & borders…

 

Karel Appel and the Cobra Art movement get a brass band tribute by José Manuel Ferreira Brito.

Another Karel Appel track goes noise, psych-rock, pop, and experimentation courtesy of Poem Rocket…

A virtually unknown American band - Verbatim - released a one-of Hieronymus Bosch song in 1969.

Salvador Dali pops up twice, first in Death By Chocolate’s Murder Mystery followed by The Death Of Dali’s Psychoanalyst as sung by Ellen Foley.

M.C. Escher also appear two times, by Italian pianist Gianluca Taglietti (who dedicates a whole album to Escher!) and by a German prog-rock band named Kraan.

Rene Magritte is perhaps responsible for some Electric Angels’ strange times.

Johannes Vermeer gets the Jonathan Richman treatment while mentioning Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Steen as will.

2x Andy Warhol; by Dana Gillespie covering Bowie and a very different original song by Trevor Sensor.

David Hockney's Diary is the subject of Television Personalities.

Piet Mondrian (and Erik Satie!) are used for Ken Vandermark’s Furniture Music, while Don Douglas & assorted friends’ version reaches dizzy heights…

Leonardo da Vinci goes orchestral thanks to Ennio Morricone.

Wassily Kandinsky is sung and whistled(!) in Spanish by a band called Fellini.

A portrait of Vincent van Gogh is described by Rolf Hermsen and Mathilde Santing Ensemble as part of a 1986 art exhibition project called La Grande Parade (subtitle: 11 Songs Based On 10 Paintings Played By 39 Musicians From The Netherlands).

Toulouse Lautrec is subject of a 1983 single by Dutch vocal duo Saskia & Serge.

Pablo Picasso’s Surrealistic Hands and paintings are lots of fun according to Claudia Phillips while Neil Diamond is focusing on his last painting.

Edward Munch’s Model By The Wicker Chair is getting an instrumental treatment by Juan Martin & Mark Isham, part of their 1986 Painter In Sound album.

Maurice Utrillo is used as a framework for The Watchman’s song.

 

Enjoy!