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ive gatherd some infomation on soe of the artwork done on certsin LP's.


After the roots-political-african repatriation trend faded away in Jamaican music, a whole bunch of lighter-minded artists emerged in the early 80s, with dancehall in mind. The cover drawing followed and saw the emergence of two of the most amazing graphic artists from the Island: Limonious and Jamaal Pete drew tons of covers, all hilarious and just plain cool. Sounds like World Industries chased Powell away, right? So long lions, wolves and symbolism… Limonious had a soft spot for raw dancehall scenes, horse races, pear-shaped decadent women, complete with hilarious patois cartoon quotes, while Jamaal was more into the portrait side of things, with a predilection for delirious recording studio scenes. Another classic series of cartoon covers also graced Scientist’s UK releases at about the same time: over the years, heavyweight dub's wonder kid got eaten alive by a metal Pac-Man, won the football world cup (he's scoring a goal on the cover), “got the world rid of the evil curse of vampires” (chasing bats away by driving a swamp boat around, fully equipped with sound system speakers) and “met the space invaders” ("Hi.")... Among other tings. This guy has busy days.


im i right in saying Limonious drew the cartoon like pics (Mostly on trhe back) while Jamaal drew the astonishing paintings mostly on the front.

like this : -

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/3864 ... 0c.jpg?v=0

thanks

Yes, i

you are correct

but the captain sinbad cover you gave link to actually design by a brother called Tony McDermott, him wuk for greensleeves. Big designer of artwork after the Limonious and Jamaal Pete era.

i&i haffi say that cover is one of i favorite DJ LP covers definatly. And the ablum has some wicked Toasting pon some rub-a-dub classics.

So if the i dont have, check it out.

JAH LOVE

I have a reissue of that sinbad, i just grab me scissor and cut out the bad man in the top left corner, him eye too beedy for me. made me want to sell it, now i chop him out cause the album is well nice. Rest of the cover is nice. Im obviously the cartoon fan, limonious a rule. jamal pete draw for example Lone ranger M 16. which is a truly wicked painting. Now that i think about i need to search for more jamaal pete.