Two Kings

Housed in a litho-printed sleeve with a booklet containing essay and photographs. Somewhere, lost in another plane of existence, a banished king searches in vain for his kingdom. This is King Herla, a man stricken by the spells of an unruly dwarf king and destined to ride the stormy skies for all eternity. But on All Hallow’s Eve, when the boundaries that separate his world from our own are somewhat porous, our protagonist spies his opportunity to return to the realm of flesh and blood. Without warning, on a dingy stage somewhere in present day Edinburgh, a crack appears in the air itself and a regal figure steps out from the void. But he is not alone…
The record features two long expository songs recorded to half-inch tape by the Kings in a former watermill on the banks of Loch Tay. Vocoder and tape delay, grit and noise, wow and flutter: all are present in abundance, coalescing into a thick analogue soup – the musical equivalent of the haze on an old VHS tape. The booklet features an essay outlining the legend of King Herla, alongside recording notes and stage directions. Scattered throughout are hitherto unseen 35mm photographs, documenting the exploits of our two otherworldly kings abroad in the world of men