Mabrak – Drum Talk album art

From Reggaepedia:

Mabrak was the group founded by drummer Leroy Trevor Mabrak. Leroy Mabrak was originally also a member of the group Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari whith which he had visited the US in 1972. The group Mabrak was originally named Genesis. In 1974 the drumming section of Mabrak won two of four medals awarded for drumming in the Jamaica National Drum Music Finals. In 1975 they recorded a 45 rpm – at King Tubby’s studio – entitled “Drum Talk” – the single being one of the very first, if not the first, records to feature the talking drum as a lead instrument. The song was chosen to be the theme song for the Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth Conference held at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston in 1975.

Mabrak’s debut album was recorded in 1976 at Harry J’s Studio and mixed by King Tubby. First released on Jigsaw in 1976 under the title Ital Talk – Liquid Talk, the shown cover is for the Different Records release from 1978, renamed after the popular song.

Designer Dave Field of Smart Art chose all-caps Motter Ombra for the cover. On the back, he added a second Letraset release: the track names are composed from Camellia, issued in 1972 in their Letragraphica range. Tony Wenman’s lowercase-only design offers wide and narrow forms for all letters.

Field used the wide ones for the track names and the narrow ones for the side headers – with a few exceptions: in the latter, d and o get to be wide. Maybe the headers otherwise would have become too compact and different? And in the former, three of the twelve instances of k are narrow. This may have to do with the economics of dry transfer lettering: a sheet of 60pt Camellia included three wide and three narrow k’s. If Field worked with this size and wanted to use the wide one for all twelve occurrences, he would have needed four sheets. The deviation from the rule allowed him to do with just three.

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