..is not actually on the album.
Shortly before “Lighting and Electrical” hits the streets we’ll be releasing “Frequency of The Word Turtle” as an online single and as an uber-limited run of 25 (Twenty Five) CDs.
The limited run of CDs will come in lovingly handmade, fabric sleeves by Sara Fowles of Needles and Hooks. I went shopping to The Rag Market yesterday with Sara in order to purchase the necessary fabric.
The Rag Market has a dizzying array of fabrics on offer (as well as literally thousands of mobile phone covers and various odds and sods like plugs, both bath and spark). After a whistlestop tour of the market during which I occasionally commented “Oh, that’s nice” or “Mmm. Yes. I see”, Sara decided on some bold, black and white material that she is currently having fashioned into the 25 sleeves by malnourished orphans imprisoned in her Kings Heath sweatshop.
We can’t wait to see the results.
As for the tunes, “Frequency..” is a 1m 30second instrumental track that we decided to leave off the finished album in order for the whole thing to come in at under 40 minutes, but before we mercilessly culled the bugger we sent it off to Remix Camp and it returned in two very different forms…
The first is a 7 minute, two part Krautrock wig-out courtesy of the very marvellous Teatowel..
The second is the 15 minute ‘Meditation on the Word Turtle’, based on the transmissions of mysterious Number Stations from our good friend Andrew Dubber.
These two remixes will be bundled with the original track and bunged out onto the interweb for sale as COMIN002 from Tuesday 28th August.
The 25 limited Needles and Hooks CDs will be available at the Lighting and Electrical launch party on 26th August (more on this soon). We’ll be keeping a few back for sale here….but we expect them to go like HOT CAKES.
As for the origins and reasons behind the title of the track…. I once sat up into the wee small hours drinking some very fine and aged single malt whiskey with Clutch Daisy out of (x) is greater than (y) and I don’t remember crawling into bed. When I woke up the next day I found a piece of paper in my pocket on which I’d written the words Frequency of the Word Turtle in horribly drunken scrawl.
To this day I don’t know why, which is probably about right.
