DesignUSSR Reconstruction
- RELEASED: Jan 1998
- FORMAT: 2xLP / CD
- LABEL: NINJA TUNE
- CAT No.: ZEN3112 / ZEN3134 / ZENCD31
- DESIGN CREDITS: Openmind
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Brown
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- EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune.net page
I love these photos, so saturated in colour and full of texture – full credit to my photographer Nancy Brown for discovering the old inventory room at Nunhead cemetry that housed the books of all the people buried there for over a century. She had been on a visit there, seen the books and knew I would love them so we made another trip and squeezed into the broom cupboard of a room to get as much detail as we could from the decaying leather that bound them.
The photos that resulted were so beautiful I didn’t want to add much so opted for minimal type – barely starting to acknowledge the Russian constructivist connection. There were two double 12″ releases and one had English and one Russian text on the title and sections of a Stockhausen score were inserted into the background to tie in with the Jazz Fudge ads I was doing and Vadim’s love of music concréte. There is also a Japanese 12′ promo design included here as well as an unused ad.