Thela Hun Ginjeet

"Thela Hun Ginjeet"
Single by King Crimson
from the album Discipline
B-side"Elephant Talk"
Released1981 (Spain)
Recorded1981
Genre
Length6:26
LabelWarner Records
Songwriter(s)Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin
Producer(s)King Crimson, Rhett Davies
King Crimson singles chronology
"Matte Kudasai"
(1981)
"Thela Hun Ginjeet"
(1981)
"Heartbeat"
(1982)

"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]

  1. ^ "Discipline - King Crimson | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  2. ^ Adrian Belew. "elephant blog: Anecdote # 808". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-11-13.