The Sugar Factory (album) The Sugar Factory (album) The Sugar Factory is a 2007 collaborative album by English experimental musician Fred Frith and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie. It comprises material drawn from improvisations by Frith and Glennie recorded during the making of the 2004 documentary film "Touch the Sound" about Glennie, who is profoundly deaf. The album was released in 2007 in the United States by Tzadik Records as part of their "Key Series". A soundtrack of the film was released in 2004, which contains some of Frith and Glennie's improvisations, plus additional music and sounds from the film. "Touch the Sound" is a
Jim Glennie cause. He and the band's singer Tim Booth often had many conflicts, due to Glennie feeling Booth was not doing what was best for the band. Saul Davies admitted in the 2006 Q article that Glennie and Booth "didn't always see eye to eye". Glennie often looks back fondly at the early years of the band, having no money and a bloody minded ignorance to the traditional forms of modern studio recording. He is also the only remaining original member of James. Glennie's style of playing is very much punk influenced as he mostly uses a plectrum to play the