Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
| Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | October 25, 1969 |
| length | 4:59 |
| Genre (s) | Avant-garde rock , progressive rock |
| Author (s) | Roger Waters |
| Publisher (s) | Emi Records Ltd |
| album | Ummagumma |
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict is the title of a song that Roger Waters wrote for Pink Floyd in 1969 and, alongside Grantchester Meadows, contributed to the studio part of the double album Ummagumma .
The piece is considered to be a contribution to musique concrète , in which sounds from nature, technology and the environment are recorded with the microphone and electronically alienated through assembly, tape cutting, changing the tape speed and tape loops. Roger Waters had produced the piece together with Ron Geesin , with whom Pink Floyd would also collaborate a year later on the recordings for Atom Heart Mother .
Conception of the piece
The five-minute title was a sound experiment. It is based on a collage of several noises that Roger Waters brought together using his own voice, knocking on the microphone, clapping hands and voice-simulating techniques (such as loops ), imitating rodents and specimens of the bird world . In order to create a condensed atmosphere, he changes the playback speeds. According to the humorous song title, the rodents are in a cave . There are also stanzas of words that are written in exaggerated Scottish English .
The term a Pict in the title refers to the indigenous people of Scotland , the Picts .
At one point (at minute 4:32) Waters puts down a (rhetorical) question that can only be understood when the piece is played back slowly, since the sentence is otherwise perceived as Mickymouse language: "That was pretty avant-garde , wasn't it? " . At the end of the piece, Waters thanks you with a clearly audible thank you.
Cover version
The band Man or Astro-man? took Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict as a model of Title Many Pieces of Large Mammals fuzzy Gathered Together at a rave and schmoozing with a brick .
Staffing
- Roger Waters - Voices and Tape Effects
- Ron Geesin - voices (Scottish-English stanzas)
Individual evidence
- ^ Andy Mabbett, The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd , London: Omnibus Press, p. 28 (1995). ISBN 0-7119-4301-X .
- ^ Toby Manning, The Albums. The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (1st ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 161 (2006). ISBN 1-84353-575-0 .
- ↑ Lyrics
- ^ Stewart Mason, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict - Pink Floyd , Rovi Corporation. Allmusic. Retrieved June 12, 2013
- ↑ Song Review by Stewart Mason on ALLMUSIC
- ↑ reader comments: backwards satanic messages