SOLD OUT Tommy Histon ‛Kimono For Kip’ Vinyl Album

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Tommy Histon ‘Kimono For Kip’

Cat. Fern 17 - 2024

12" white vinyl album - SOLD OUT

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Recording Overview

There’s far too much going on here to cover in any Press Release, it would fill a book. Thus, here’s a brief overview…

Musically, Histon is all over the place on these recordings. On paper, the album shouldn’t work. Yet, somehow, he and Ogden pulled it off! The result is a completely cohesive, structured album, that makes perfect sense when listened to.

Indeed, it gets better and better the more you advance through it, as each subsequent track informs on and further reveals what has gone before. The entire record was conceived, written and recorded in the space of about six weeks. It’s claimed more than half of that time was spent in the pub!

Informed by Histon’s own ‘alien abduction experience’, and chancing across the runners in the 1964 Grand National horse race, he came up with an apocalyptic concept album, as you do. Histon claimed ‘kip’ to be the alien word for potassium permanganate, or KMnO4. When he encountered the purple-silk-kimono clad Ally Mac, it all, apparently, fell into place. Purple Silk was the name of a Grand National runner. As were Peacetown, Crobeg, Flying Wild, Gale Force X, and several others mentioned in the lyrics. In Tommy’s world, Crobegs are the machines sent by monorchid aliens to destroy humankind. Water is their weakness, and the sub-aquatic Peacetown is the safe haven sought.

Got that? Right…

Tracks:

‘KIMONO FOR KIP’ ORIGINAL ALBUM

01. And So It Begins

02. Crobeg Song

03. Flying Wild

04. Which Way?

05: Take The Sea Air

06. Get Up And Go

07. Gale Force X

08. Peacetown

09. Kimono For Kip

10. Never Come Down