• Source: 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" is a track written and performed by Roger Waters from the 1969 Pink Floyd double album, Ummagumma.




Sounds and recording



The track consists of several minutes of noises resembling rodents and birds simulated by voices, utilizing techniques such as tapping the microphone played at different speeds, followed by Waters providing a few stanzas of spoken word in an exaggerated Scottish burr. This poem was improvised in the studio.
The Picts were the indigenous people of what is now Scotland who merged with the Scots. There is a hidden message in the song at about 4:32. If played at 16 rpm, Waters can be heard saying, "That was pretty avant-garde, wasn't it?" Playing it at 45 rpm reveals a second message from Waters: "Bring back my guitar."
A small sample of these effects appears at about 4:48 on Waters' other track on Ummagumma, "Grantchester Meadows".

"It's not actually anything, it's a bit of concrete poetry. Those were sounds that I made, the voice and the hand slapping were all human generated – no musical instruments."




In popular culture


The title of the Man or Astro-man? song "Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick" is based on this song.
A quotation in the Karl Edward Wagner novel Bloodstone (1975) pays tribute to the song: "several species of small furry animals gathered together in cave and grooving with a pict."




Personnel


Personnel per Paul Stump.

Roger Waters – voices, tape effects
David Gilmour - high-pitched voice




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ummagumma
• Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
• Ummagumma
• Works (Pink Floyd album)
• Picts in literature and popular culture
• Pict (disambiguation)
• Embryo (Pink Floyd song)
• List of unreleased songs recorded by Pink Floyd
• List of songs recorded by Pink Floyd
• List of rock instrumentals
• A Raise of Eyebrows