Rovi – PianoFender Blues
Contributed by Matthijs Sluiter on Jun 19th, 2022. Artwork published in
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PianoFender Blues is a library music recording by Rovi, one of the many noms de plume of Piero Umiliani. The album features twelve easy listening tunes with a bluesy flavour. The artist’s name is not mentioned on the cover; the album title however, takes up more than half of the available space.
The three tightly spaced words are set in stacked and slightly overlapping lines using Blackline, a design by German graphic artist Wolf Magin (1927–2009) that was adopted by Berthold for phototypesetting in 1971. Around 1974, Blackline was also available from Mecanorma for dry transfer lettering.
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Magin Wolf also used his thick-thin geometric shapes to create Experimenta Litera, a series of abstract typographic works. This image shows some works from ca. 1974.
In addition to looking cool as hell, this LP totally rules. Piero Umiliani was a chameleonic maestro of this era of “background music” and Italian soundtrack albums.