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Morladron
Geraint Jarman
Ep artwork for Geraint Jarman, provided through the SAIN Records collection on Wikimedia Commons.
Inside the image.
A square, slightly faded colour photograph shows a person bent over a cream-white electric guitar, which runs diagonally across the lower half of the cover. The person occupies the centre, head bowed so that dark, tousled hair hides the face. They wear a pale, padded jacket with dark straps or trim and a red-edged strap crossing the shoulder. Their left hand is near the guitar’s body and their right hand is placed along the fretboard.
The guitar’s rounded body fills the lower-left foreground; its long, pale neck angles up towards the right edge, with metal strings, frets, tuning pegs and small dark marks visible. Behind it, at lower right, sits dark electronic equipment with knobs, sockets and a small rectangular display or label. The person and guitar are tightly cropped, with the guitar headstock partly cut off at the right edge. The background is a plain, mottled light grey-beige wall, leaving open space around the figure, especially across the top.
A bright blue line of bold, uppercase lettering spans the upper left and centre: “GERAINT JARMAN A’R CYNGANEDDWYR”. At upper right, below it, “MÔRLADRON” appears in larger muted red-orange capitals with a dark outline or shadow. Both inscriptions sit over the photograph. The image has a soft, grainy, somewhat washed-out appearance, with subdued beige and grey surroundings contrasted by the blue and red lettering, the dark hair and equipment, and the pale guitar. Light falls fairly evenly across the wall and jacket, while the lower equipment area is in deep shadow.
What the image evokes.
The bowed head makes the scene feel absorbed and inward-looking: attention seems to pass from the hidden face down through the hands and along the guitar neck. The instrument’s pale body catches the eye like a pool of light against the darker equipment and lower part of the frame, while its diagonal line gives the otherwise still, squared-off photograph a sense of motion.
There is an unvarnished, close-up quality to the image. The padded jacket, visible cables or straps and crowded equipment suggest the practical surroundings of a performance or rehearsal, though the photograph does not specify the setting. Its softened colours and uneven, aged-looking surface can evoke a personal snapshot or an old printed photograph. The crisp, emphatic lettering, by contrast, feels deliberately graphic: the cool blue band and warm red title hover above the scene like a label applied to a moment caught mid-action. The combination leaves the cover poised between documentary immediacy and a more designed, almost handmade presentation.
Associations are subjective readings, rather than documented influences or statements of the artist’s intention.
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Lettering & observation notes
- GERAINT JARMAN A’R CYNGANEDDWYR — Across the upper left and centre
- MÔRLADRON — Upper right
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- Source year
- 2002
- Source author field
- Sain (Records) Ltd
- Attribution
- Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
- Collection
- SAIN / Wikimedia Commons
- Catalogue number
- SAIN SCD 2363
- Permission evidence
- Public VRT notice: 2017050910011681
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026
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