SHAWN LEE & CLUTCHY HOPKINS: CLUTCH OF THE TIGER FOR INFORMATION AND SOUNDCLIPS OF OUR TITLES, GO TO WWW.UBIQUITYRECORDS.COM/PRESS STREET DATE: 10/21/2008 Clutchy Hopkins & Shawn Lee – Clutch of The Tiger (Ubiquity album) (URCDLP235) Clutch of the Tiger sounds like a collection of film-noir tracks run through the Clutchy Hopkins and Shawn Lee magical music machine. It’s dusty and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly beats and other-worldly . Famous comic book creator Jim Mahood (who's worked on Spiderman/Marvel, Clerks, Grrl Scouts, Stupid Comics, etc etc) liked the tunes so much he provided the killer artwork for the package! FYI - Inside the album is a hidden code that gives customers a deal on limited edition prints of the Mahfood artwork, available exclusively from the Ubiquity website.

But how did this record come to be? Does Shawn Lee know the identity of the mysterious Mr Hopkins? Read on brothers and sisters... The ideas were delivered to the Misled Children, the somewhat Clutch of the Tiger sounds like a collection of secretive agents of Mr. Hopkins that had befriended Ubiquity A few years back our man Shawn Lee flew from London to Phoenix, AZ, to visit his Mom for Christmas. film-noir tracks run through the Clutchy Hopkins (coincidentally by way of a chance purchase at a thrift store.) Two While out there, the opportunity arose for a last minute recording session in Los Angeles. Renting a car weeks later a purple CD-r was mailed to Lee’s house back in London he decided to make the drive by way of the Mojave Desert. Passing though the Desert he was low on gas, and Shawn Lee magical music machine. It’s dusty and it included the tracks he started, with new music added to them, and so pulled over to fill up. He could not resist dropping into the thrift store next door. "I love second and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly and also some other ideas meant for Shawn to play with. There was hand and vintage stuff, I had to go in see if I could find some cool clothes, or a little funky instrument," also a message, written into a crazy, complicated equation which Lee he explains. beats and other-worldly funk. Famous comic book decoded with some help from a mathematical scholar. It was a request creator Jim Mahfood (who's worked on from Clutchy Hopkins to send more music. This exchange of ideas, by After a quick scour of the merchandise Lee headed back out towards the door only to be met by a Spiderman/Marvel, Clerks, Grrl Scouts, Stupid way of the mail and the Misled Children, went on for 3 months. Then bushy-haired man carrying a tiger mask. They exchanged greetings, shared stories about vintage everything went quiet. 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