Fay Victor
Fay Victor’s album, Blackity Black Black is Beautiful is a cosmic meditation transcending space and time, resisting categorization of any one genre. Fay weaves together personal storytelling and reflections on current events into a web of improvisational jazz, gospel, house, and space music.
The album cover is silkscreen printed in single-color black ink on recycled brown paper. The design was influenced by historic protest posters, as well as the rhythmic typographic interplay of Emmett McBain. McBain was a prolific designer from Chicago who envisioned album covers for Playboy Records, worked for Vince Cullers Advertising, and founded McBain and Associates. He designed the poignant poster “Black is Beautiful” for Vince Cullers & Associates in 1968.
Blackity Black Black is Beautiful was released 2023 via Northern Spy Records.