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Rat​-​Size With Conical Headdress

from 4 Orphans {2001​/​2011} by irr. app. (ext.) + Nurse With Wound

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Rat-Size (or sometimes 'Hat-Size' or simply 'Size') was one of my favourites of the ever-changing Cooloorta menagerie: a beautiful dog of the 'Lurcher' category (in this case looking very similar to a greyhound) who loved to chase cars and made peculiar noises when her belly was scratched. Sadly, she joined the hound pack of eternity a few years back. This piece was created before that happened, but it's now become a kind of commemoration to her. Her contented belly-scratching grunts can be heard during the first section. Excerpts from a 'behind-the-scenes' recording I made surreptitiously at Petr Vastl's home studio during sessions for the Nurse With Wound track 'Hindu Monastery Breakfast' pop up here and there.

A more deliberate tribute to Size is the song 'Lurcher', a demo version of which is included elsewhere on this site. A photo of her (with conical headdress, even) can be seen in the graphic for that song.

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from 4 Orphans {2001​/​2011}, released April 9, 2011
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Nurse With Wound sources recorded with Colin Potter at ICR Studios in 1998.

irr. sources recorded in Cooloorta, Eire and at the Felton Empire Studio in Felton, CA in 2001.

Original track assembly & mastering at the Felton Empire Studio, Felton, CA in 2001; digital clean-up & remastering at Rock Creek Tributary, Hillsboro, OR in April 2011.

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