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Album cover for Fripp & Eno: No Pussyfooting. Brian Eno is holding a deck of what may be tarot cards. Nine colorful cards are dealt on the table beside him, in three rows of three. There is a small framed painting lying nearby. Eno's pale hair is long and straight, and he is made up with eye shadow, lipstick, and blush. Robert Fripp, wearing glasses and with a neatly trimmed beard which matches his curly head hair, sits facing Eno. They are in a mirror-lined room, so their reflections repeat a dozen or more times into the distance, growing progressively dimmer. A glass shelf is visible over Eno's head, holding a small collection of old leather-bound books. There are many other elements in the small, shiny room that seem indescribable.
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Cover image of Julian Lage's album, Speak to Me, showing a black and white photo of Lage looking out at us with a calm expression
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cover image for the Pauline Oliveros album, Ghostdance, showing a black and white photo of a bare room with a person moving near the far wall; the photo was taken with a long shutter time, so the room is saturated with light from the two windows, and the figure is blurred and indistinct, ghostly in her movements
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Cover image for My Life in a Bush of Ghosts, the 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, showing stylized humanoid figures scattered over a light backgound; the title and artists' names appear in all-caps along the top of the cover in red letters
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Cover image for the Stereolab album Margerine Eclipse, showing an orange field with a series of white concentric circles and ovals with several teardrop shapes, and the name of the band and album title, and several song titles and lyric fragments in smaller lettering
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Cover image for the improvised not-not-jazz album Made Out Of Sound, showing Chris Corsano on drums and Bill Orcutt on electric guitar
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Cover image for Bach's Cello Suites by Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma, performed in the Stradivarius violoncello 'Servais' from the Smithsonian collection; issued by the Vivarte (Sony Classical) label; the cover shows a painting of a Rennaissance-era player tuning a cello
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Cover image for the album Cool With That by Jazz improv quartet East Axis, showing a red sphere balanced on top of a purple cone in a bare grey space
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cover image for McCoy Tyner's album The Real McCoy, showing the pianist sitting at the keyboard, sleeves rolled up, looking off to one side (Joe Henderson on saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, Elvin Jones on drums)
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Cover image for the album If Not Now by Meredith Bates, showing a flat blank wall and the bottom right corner of a boarded up window and window sill; precariously rooted at the corner of the sill, a small plant is growing
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cover for the album Secret Stratosphere by William Tyler and the Impossible Truth showing an illustration of an enormous orange sphere partially draped by a white cloth floating in the sky, with several small clouds nearby
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Cover image for T Spoon Phillips' album, Lost and Haunted Ways, showing the stone wall of a ruined castle on a green hill, with the English flag (red cross on a white field) flying.
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Album cover for the improv album Monstrance by Andy Partridge, Barry Andrews, and Martyn Barker, showing a series of orange and black ovals, as if looking down a deep well made of orange and black plastic, with the word Monstrance across the middle of the image in a typeface that seems almost deliberately designed to be virtually illegible.
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cover image for the album Travel by the Necks, showing a dark blue field with several gold arrows pointing mostly to the right but with a few faint images pointing left
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Cover image for the album Melt by Blank Gloss, showing a brutalist concrete staircase from below, and beyond is a pale blue sky with a soft pink cloud
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Cover image of XTC's 1982 album English Settlement, showing the Uffington Chalk Horse on a plain green field, with the title and band's name barely visible in embossed letters

Released on this day 41 years ago.

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cover image for the album A Light for Attracting Attention by the Radiohead-adjacent band The Smile, showing what appears to be a cartoon rendering of a map of a large lake or inland sea with tributaries and rivers flowing in and out, and several stylized rainbow-colored mountain ranges or hills; a compass rose or red sun occupies the top right corner
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Cover image for Nils Frahm's album Music For Animals, showing a lake in the background and an arm in silhouette holding a plastic bag with water and a small fish; the water in the bag lines up with the horizon in the distance; the sun is reflected in the surface of the lake but the arm blocks our view of it
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Album cover for the Novak Quartet's recording of Bartók's six string quartets showing the overlapping shapes of two violins, a viola, and a cello, making a prismatic pattern in browns and oranges
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It’s a Wayne Shorter evening.

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Cover for the jazz album Juba Lee by the Avram Fefer Quartet: Avram Fefer, Marc Ribot, Eric Revis, and Chad Taylor; showing a black stylized slightly cartoonish illustration of a human figure on an orange background with arms outstretched, holding what appears to be a fan in one hand and a rattle or magnifying glass in the other, wearing a long tunic with many small crescent moons or birds like chainmail
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Cover image for Brian Eno's album Ambient 1: Music For Airports
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cover image for the jazz album Opposites Attract by Ned Rothenberg and Paul Dresher
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the cover image for KILN's album Meadow_Watt showing many horizontal lines of orange, brown, and dark yellow colors
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cover image for the avant-jazz album Void Patrol by Colin Stetson, Elliott Sharp, Billy Martin, and Payton MacDonald