Matthew Herbert Big Band, The - Goodbye Swingtime

Label:

Accidental

Catalog#:

AC05

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

19 May 2003

Genre:

Electronic, Jazz

Style:

Big Band, Future Jazz, Experimental, Swing

Tracklist

1	Turning Pages	7:41	X
	Other [Processing] - Jamie Lidell Piano [Hohner Vibe-piano Thing] - Matthew Herbert
2	Everything's Changed	4:42	X
	Lyrics By - Matthew Herbert Vocals - Jamie Lidell Written-by [Co-written By] - Jamie Lidell , Pete Wraight*
3	Fiction	4:12	X
	Lyrics By - Arto Lindsay , Matthew Herbert Vocals - Arto Lindsay Written-by [Co-written By] - Arto Lindsay , Pete Wraight*
4	The Three W's	5:50	X
	Flugelhorn - Pete Wraight* Vocals, Noises [Typing, Printing] - Mara Carlyle
5	Chromoshop	5:47	X
	Engineer [Assistant] - John Bailey* Piano [Hohner Vibe-piano Thing] - Matthew Herbert Vocals [8 Parallel Vocals] - Dani Siciliano , Shingai Shoniwa
6	The Battle	4:54	X
	Co-producer, Other [Additional Processing] - Andi Thoma* , Jan St. Werner Orchestra [Mouthpiece Orchestra] - Pete Wraight*
7	Misprints	6:09	X
	Engineer [Assistant] - John Bailey* Flugelhorn - Pete Wraight* Lyrics By, Guitar - Matthew Herbert Noises - Christine Hadlow Saxophone [Soprano], Saxophone [Tenor] - Dave O'Higgins Vocals - Shingai Shoniwa
8	The Many And The Few	4:58	X
	Lyrics By - Jamie Lidell , Matthew Herbert Vocals - Jamie Lidell Written-by [Co-written By] - Jamie Lidell , Peter Wraight
9	Simple Mind	5:18	X
	Lyrics By - Matthew Herbert Vocals - Dani Siciliano
10	Stationary	8:29	X
	Bass [Additional] - Dave Green Flugelhorn - Pete Wraight* Other [Additional Processing] - Plaid Vocals [Vocal Snippets] - Dani Siciliano

Credits

Artwork By [Design] - Sarah Hopper
Bass - Dave Green
Directed By, Arranged By - Pete Wraight*
Drums - Pete Cater
Engineer - Chris Bolster , Paul Critchton
Leader [Band Fixed By] - Russell Swift
Mastered By - Mandy Parnell
Other [Music Preparation By] - Rebecca Gibson
Photography [Model] - Angelo Plantamura
Photography [Portrait] - Ali Mahdavi
Piano - Phil Parnell
Recorded By [Additional Recordings] - Matthew Herbert
Saxophone [Alto], Clarinet - Simon Niblock
Saxophone [Alto], Clarinet, Flute - Howard McGill
Saxophone [Baritone], Clarinet - Bob McKay
Saxophone [Tenor] - Dave O'Higgins , Nigel Hitchcock
Saxophone [Tenor], Clarinet - Martin Williams (2)
Trombone - Andy Wood (2) , Chris Cole (2) , Gordon Campbell , John Higginbotham
Trumpet - Adam Linsley , Andrew Cook , Graham Russell (3) , Stuart Brooks
Tuba - John Higginbotham
Written-By - Matthew Herbert

Notes

All tracks written according to the rules o PCCOM (Personal Contract for the Composition of Music). All tracks recorded at Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios, July 4 - 7, 2002, except track 7 recorded at Magic and Accident and track 5 recorded at Air Studios, July 2001. All additional recordings and vocals made at Magic and Accident. Mastered at The Exchange, December 12, 2002 and February 22 & 24, 2003.

Chris Bolster is an in-house engineer at Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios.
Ali Mahdavi appears courtesy of Eugenia Melian.

Track 4 contains sounds (referred to as "Noises" in the credits) of Mara Carlyle typing of the URL for the School of Americas' Watch website detailing American involvment in Latin American military dictatorships and printing of pages from the same website. Track 5 contains sound recordings of 16 supermarket shopping tills. Track 7 contains sounds (referred to as "Noises" in the credits) of a working paper guillotine operated by Christine Hadlow, courtesy of Catford Print Centre in London. Track 8 contains sounds of local phonebooks being dropped on floors by people around the world.

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Rated 5/5

Review by scoundrel Jun 30, 2004 (edited over 5 years ago)

Matthew Herbert takes his one-of-a-kind sensibility back to the Roaring ‘20s, when big band swing music was all the rage. Goodbye Swingtime combines swing jazz and abstract electronics to startling and surprising effect. The vocals (like on “Fiction”) only enhance this feel of both retro and nouveau. There’s moodiness present (“The Three W’s”) as well as wistful (“The Many and the Few”). The surreal stop-start aspect of the music is enhanced by the fact that actual musicians are playing the music, rather than using samples. It’s an album that defies expectation and raises Herbert’s work to a completely different level. In a word: outstanding.

Rated 5/5

Review by tort Jul 07, 2003

It's really amazing to hear jamie lidell singing on tracks like evrything's changed but please do listen to it at home. i've recently play this tune at the party and no one knew what was going on. the record is worth every penny spent on thanks to surpising musical content and delightful package

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