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"Crystal Veil" was the title track of my solo CD, released in the summer

of 2007. It's a song in praise of the general beauty of ladies in glasses.

The sleeve photo of the CD was a borrowing of two great portraits by

(probably) Ed van der Elsken, a famous Amsterdam photographer. He

took two back and white pictues of a young lady looking at a park in the

mid 1960's. I saw the shots in a book, borrowed from the library sometime

during the 1980's and they made a great impression on me. When it was

time to pay attention to the presentation of the CD (musicians have the

tendency to see that part as a sideissue) I zoomed in on the dim memory

of those pictures from the mid 1960's. Imagine Esther did not look at her

own image but at a park in the distance and you will get an idea of the

concept. Great posing, by the way. This was the moment when I felt that

Esther was getting into her stride as a model!