ECM: Sleeves of Desire

The ECM recording label’s contribution to the fields of jazz and contemporary classical music is unparalleled. But let’s say you don’t care about that because you don’t really listen to jazz or contemporary classical music. How do you feel about striking covers? And suppose they were designed under Manfred Eicher's art direction by Barbara Wojirsch and Dieter Rehm? A delight for music and design fans alike, this book presents chronologically ordered color reproductions of over 500 covers from the innovative ECM label. Additionally, renowned jazz essayist Peter Ruedi relates the history of the ECM label and designer Lars Müller comments on the evolution of the covers and on ECM’s unmistakable aesthetic signature. Good. Good. Good.