Soulfood – Food & Music, Fat & Yummy album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Jan 31st, 2017. Artwork published in
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Soulfood is a cookbook with 68 recipes for “Real African American Cooking” collected by Sven “Katmando” Christ. It comes with a compilation featuring music by Bo Diddley, Chuck Womack & The Sweet Souls, RZA, Andre Williams and others. Published by Trikont in 2012.
The fonts used on the cover are Pinewood, a freebie digitization of Rustic No. 2, and Underware’s Sauna. The latter is also used for the book interior.
“The Sound of African American Cooking” — special vinyl edition compiled by Jonathan Fischer
3 Comments on “Soulfood – Food & Music, Fat & Yummy album art”
The photography really adds to the nostalgic feel. Deep focus, high contrast, obvious highlights and shadows. it’s a nice break from the shallow focus, soft everything look of so much contemporary food photography.
Looks like this cover is a clear riff on the cover of Brother Jack McDuff’s 1969 album, Down Home Style, right down to the yellow and use of Rustic No. 2:
Nice find, didn’t know that!