TUMLIR, Jan
The Magic Circle. On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records

Charting a pathway of historical analysis and speculative association outward from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” The Magic Circle is a meditation on the form of the concept album as a point of convergence between the worlds of rock and art, as well as an experiment in conflating the critical methodologies appropriate to either side. By the incomparable LA-based art crtiic and writer Jan Tumlir!

Published by Onomatopee, 2015
Essays / Music & Sound