Description:	Cassette in cool paper sleeve on Secret Furry Hole, limited to 100 copies. ONE COPY FOUND!
	Format:	Tape
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Secret Furry Hole
	Price:	£5.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 24 July 2009.

Piano Magic overlord Glen Johnson releases a limited 5 track EP on the Secret Furry Hole label called 'Institutionalized'. But it's released on cassette!! Limited to 100 copies in a very Glen Johnson esque sleeve these are recordings from the 'Details Not Recorded' sessions which have previously been unreleased until now. And only you folks with cassette decks will be able to enjoy this lovely thing!! I got myself a cheap Marantz deck second hand the other week and it's great. Amazed at the quality of tapes but rewinding and fast forwarding them are a cocking bind. Around the time of recording these Glen spent some time around Whitechapel hospital where Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man) was institutionalized and I think that forms the basis of some of the songs on board. Fans of the last EP will enjoy the gothic fairytale sounds here and I recon if you're a fan of his work (and so many of you are) you'll be well excited by this tucker. 100 copies only.... and there's a cover of Sonic Youth's 'Secret Girl' which is really quite good (very similar to the original!)

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Sound clips for Institutionalized EP by Glen Johnson: on Tape at Norman Records UK. Tape, Secret Furry Hole, SFH004, £5.29.

What their label says...

the tracks on 'institutionalized' come from the same home recordings sessions that formed my recent debut solo album, 'details not recorded'. even so, listening to them now within the context of an ep, they sound to me like a subtle progression, a signpost to the way forward.

around the time of recording, i spent a couple of days loitering around whitechapel hospital here in london, where joseph carey merrick ('the elephant man') was institutionalized in the 1890's. my obsession with merrick is well-documented but unashamed. his is a story of human wretchedness and human compassion. i'm fascinated by both in equal measure, though my attraction to wandering hospital corridors when i'm not the slightest bit ill might be viewed as worrying to some.

i've thrown in a cover of sonic youth's 'secret girl', not only because i've always loved the 'EVOL' album but because the words remind me of merrick and anyone else who ever looked (or felt) different. there's inexcusably something of david lynch's 'the elephant man' movie in my sonic palette here; the hospital's coal-fed victorian boiler room.

elsewhere, revenge, anger, loss, loneliness, violence, death, woe. business as usual -- myspace.com/glenashleyjohnson

kill you
ageing
come back
secret girl
i can’t help it

all tracks written by glen johnson except 'secret girl' by sonic youth.
all tracks recorded at home. early 2009.
piano on 'secret girl' by angèle david-guillou.