18/08/2022
Even 20 years later this album cover isnt easy to produce. Fantastic album too
20 years today since Funki Porcini released 'Fast Asleep' on Ninja Tune.
"James aka Funki Porcini wanted a girl asleep in a room of analogue kit as the cover for the Fast Asleep album, that simple.
I knew that to do that idea physically would be incredibly expensive and probably impossible to shoot well. So I made a room in Photoshop out of whatever I could find and while I was fitting everything together, adding shading and false perspective, I digitally carved each piece of kit into a letter, spelling out the name of the artist and title.
120+ layers in Photoshop later…
I gave a print out of ‘the room’ to my good friend and photographer Martin LeSanto-Smith who then took a stepladder to his studio and photographed friend and flatmate, Christina, at the right angle to be dropped into the picture.
There are details on the newspaper that James also wanted on the cover including an early idea for the cover and a headline in Italian. He’d also given me an illustration of a cat curled up for one of the labels inside so I added a cat in to make a connection. The other images for the labels were also supplied by James and linked to films he’d made for the record." – Openmind Design
Fast Asleep LP cover, 2002
Model: Christina
Photography by Martin LeSanto-Smith
Design by Openmind and Funki Porcini
