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"Thela Hun Ginjeet" | ||||
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Single by King Crimson | ||||
from the album Discipline | ||||
B-side | "Elephant Talk" | |||
Released | 1981 (Spain) | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 6:26 | |||
Label | Warner Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin | |||
Producer(s) | King Crimson, Rhett Davies | |||
King Crimson singles chronology | ||||
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"Thela Hun Ginjeet" is a single by the band King Crimson, released in 1981 and on the album Discipline (1981). The song name is an anagram of "heat in the jungle", which is a reference to crime in the city. (The term "heat" is American slang for firearms or for police.)
While "Thela Hun Ginjeet" is in 4
4 time, Robert Fripp's electric guitar plays in 7
8 time during much of the song, creating a polymetric effect. The instrumental middle section of the song features a recording of Adrian Belew's voice, in which he describes being confronted by a British Jamaican street gang and subsequently the police while walking around Notting Hill Gate in London with a tape recorder. [2]
During King Crimson's tours in support of Discipline and its successor Beat , Belew would tell the story while the song was being performed. During the Beat tour, the story-telling was somewhat improvised. From the Three of a Perfect Pair tour onwards, this was dropped, leaving only the sung lyrics, although the original recording was played during tours in the band's mid-1990s "double trio" era. This practice continued during the 2024 "Beat" tour, which, while not technically King Crimson, included 2 of the 4 members that recorded the original.
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