Thela Hun Ginjeet
| "Thela Hun Ginjeet" | ||||
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| Single by King Crimson | ||||
| from the album Discipline | ||||
| B-side | "Elephant Talk" | |||
| Released | 1981 (Spain) | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
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| Length | 6:26 | |||
| Label | Warner Records | |||
| Songwriters | Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin | |||
| Producers | King Crimson, Rhett Davies | |||
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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", itself a euphemism for city-based crime. (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 middle section of the song features a recording of Adrian Belew's voice, which was covertly recorded at Fripp's direction. An agitated Belew related a story about how he was wandering around the Notting Hill Gate neighborhood of London where Discipline was recorded at Island Studios, while carrying a portable tape recorder and hoping to find inspiration for lyrics. Instead, he was confronted by a street gang who found his actions suspicious, and subsequently questioned by the police who thought he was possibly a drug dealer.