Mati Klarwein, the surrealist painter who designed psychedelic album covers for rock bands and jazz musicians, including Santana, Miles Davis, and Earth, Wind and Fire, has died.

Mati Klarwein, the surrealist painter who designed psychedelic album covers for rock bands and jazz musicians including Santana, Miles Davis and Earth, Wind and Fire, has died. He was 70. Klarwein ...

Klarwein’s cover art captures the same energy and controversy as the album; distilling it into potent symbolism, surreality and colourful confusion.

MADRID, Spain — Mati Klarwein, the surrealist painter who designed psychedelic album covers for rock bands and jazz musicians including Santana, Miles Davis and Earth, Wind and Fire, has died.

Success came in the early Seventies, when Klarwein started hanging out with musicians and was commissioned to paint album covers, some of which have now become classics.

Music lovers have probably never heard of Mati Klarwein, though they most likely have seen his visionary art. He did the album art for Carlos Santana’s Abraxis, Miles Davis’ Bitches… ...