Mati & The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955 - 2005 Limited Edition Of 500: Includes 2 Lps By Miles Davis - Exclusive To This Book

By Mati Klarwein

Book and Records are as new and unplayed in the case of the discs; only opened to check the contents. Rare recordings by Miles Davis

Mati And The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955/2005 contains 52 record covers painted by Mati Klarwein. The book comes packaged with a 2xLP recording of a previously unreleased Miles Davis concert from the Copenhagen show on the 1969 European tour of Bitches Brew.

The show took place on 4 November 1969 and featured a line up of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette.

Mati And The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955/2005 is put together by Antoine de Beaupré, and is published in an edition of 500. This is number 241/500.

The LP, which uses Klarwein's Zonked portrait of Betty Davis as the cover artwork is only be sold with the book

52 RECORD COVERS -- 1955/2005

A book on MATI KLARWEIN'S original paintings made for Lp & CD covers

Accompanying the launch of this book is a double album of a previously unreleased MILES DAVIS concert that was part of his 1969 'BITCHES BREW' European tour, with a portrait of Betty Davis on the cover.
The painting known as Zonked had been commissioned by the trumpet player but was never used at the time, due to their separation.
(The famous model and singer Betty Davis introduced her husband to the funk of Sly Stone and psychedelic rock of Hendrix. Miles Davis left her in 1969, at the time of his European tour, later saying he thought her, 'too young and too wild' for him).

Mati Klarwein, visionary artist
Son of a Bauhaus architect and an opera singer, Mati Klar-wein was born in Germany in 1932, he grew up in Palestine, started painting in Paris, in Fernand Léger's studio where he met Salvador Dali, then later in the Viennese painter Ernst Fuchs' studio, he obtained French nationality with the help of Madame Malraux,
played jazz with Boris Vian before moving to New York in the mid 1960s in the middle of the hippy revolution and he never stopped moving his studio across the world from India, Bali and Morocco to Brazil, Greece, Ghana, Cuba and elsewhere, before ending up in his Balearic village of predilection, Deia, where he passed away in March 2002.
His oeuvre consists of more than 600 paintings, including 270 portraits, 280 landscapes, which he called Inscapes, and over 100 Improved Paintings, canvases bought at flea markets which he then adapted into his own work.

LP n°1:
Side A
1- Directions 7:14 (Josef Zawinul) BMI
2- Miles Runs The Voodoo Down 9:40 (Miles Davis)
Side B
3- Bitches brew 15:35 (Miles Davis)

LP n°2:
Side C
1- Agitation 10:28 (Miles Davis)
2- I Fall In Love to Easily 3:39 (Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne) ASCAP
3- Sanctuary 3:29 (Wayne Shorter)
Side D
1- It's about That Time / The Theme 19:52 (Miles Davis)

The double album will be sold exclusively with the book.