Logo
The Luaka Bop logo design was conceived by David Byrne and realized by Tibor Kalman. On Luaka Bop's all-seeing thorn-encroached heart, David Byrne states: "Many times I have been asked about the symbolism of the Luaka Bop logo. It has been described variously as a leaf, a spade and a heart. None of these are strictly correct. The logo, whose use is granted through an agreement that is subject to certain conditions, is a rather obscure Masonic symbol linked at various times to the Trinity of the Illuminati and to the Egyptian Knights of Templar. The Knights were guardians of the secrets of harmony. Hence the obvious and appropriate connection to music. But their concept of harmony was much greater and ranging than our own- not only encompassing the harmony of the spheres, of the heavens, but the harmony of inner fluids and dynamic forces- and in the case of the Egyptian Knights these were ruled by the dead. The Knights believed that the dead are the custodians of the present day, and that no harmony can be true and lasting without their assistance. The eye of the Luaka Bop logo is the eye of Vilaç Trimegistes, the Balkan alchemist who gave his eyes to his work, and who was the first to uncover the secrets of the Egyptian Knights. The shape and proportion of the Eye of Vilaç is in a mathematical relationship to the vessel, or 'heart.' The heart being considered a vessel not only for the blood, but for the dead. The rays, 'thorns' or nails that line and protect the vessel were incorporated during the middle ages, an addition that was deemed necessary in lieu of the then power of the Papacy. Today, the symbol exists as a vessel for music, text and image, through which its members communicate to the population at large, Alan Greenspan and occasionally Jacques Chirac."
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