Mati Meets Miles

Mati  Klarwein shares the story of how he came to do the cover art for Miles Davis' Bitches Brew LP.

 

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Klarwein’s 1961 painting, "Annunciation" made the cover of Santana’s album, Abraxas. The album’s title comes from a line from the book Demian by Herman Hesse and is quoted on the back of the album:

“We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas.”

 

 

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