Snip from an interview in the Guardian:
'Music sounds so wrong at the moment," says Matthew Herbert, sitting outside a pub near his London studio. People who hear his new album, Plat du Jour, may well agree with him. One of the tracks features the sound of Herbert driving a Chieftain tank over a re-creation of the meal Nigella Lawson prepared for Bush and Blair, when the US president came over to thank Tony for his support over Iraq. Plat du Jour also features 80,000 chicks, 3,255 people biting into apples, and a track made from "one crystal of beet sugar and a coke can" (…)
Herbert's research for the album also included a trip down the London sewers with his microphone. "It was like Ghostbusters. Late one night I got a call on my mobile. 'We're on,' said a man." He gave Herbert a location, turned up there in a van, gave Herbert a special suit and snuck him down a manhole in the early hours of the morning. "All to record the sound of your shit, you see?" I am stuck, just for a second, with the image of a singing poo.
Link to complete text. Also, check the album website — Link. Specifically, be sure to go through the "Making Of" links. Your jaw will drop. Image: Herbert capturing audio from a little chickie, and here are more photos. (Thanks, Michael Donaldson aka Qburns Abstract Message!)
