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Musca Remixes (RSD23 EDITION)

    THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

    Matthew Herbert presents remixes by Floating Points, Seven Davis Jr and Herbert himself as part of a special 12" vinyl RSD 2023 release. The remixes are of tracks from 2021's full length album Musca, an instinctive return to the ëdomestic houseí series that started back in 1998 with Around The House and the 2001's Bodily Functions.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1: Fantasy (Floating Points Remix)
    B1: Might As Well Be Magical (Seven Davis Jr. Multiverse Edit)
    B2: Fantasy (Herbert’s Greenery Dub)

    Matthew Herbert

    The Wonder OST

      1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on “manna from heaven”. As Anna's health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to unearth the truth, challenging the faith of a community that would prefer to stay believing. Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer. His artistic works extend from celebrated albums (Bodily Functions, One Pig) to scores for Oscar winning films (A Fantastic Woman, The Cave), including music for theatre, TV, video games, books, Broadway shows and art installations. He has performed as a DJ, as a solo artist, in venues from the Sydney Opera House to the Hollywood Bowl. He has remixed iconic artists including Quincy Jones, Serge Gainsbourg and Ennio Morricone; and collaborated regularly with acts from Björk to Dizzee Rascal.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Calling
      2. Bent
      3. Frustration
      4. Shame
      5. Bent Again
      6. Thaumotrope
      7. Booties
      8. Collapse
      9. Revelation
      10. Until She Dies
      11. Kiss Her Again
      12. Going To Live
      13. Fiesta (Burning Remix)
      14. Reunion
      15. Credits

      Nightports With Tom Herbert

      Nightports With Tom Herbert

        For fans of: Arthur Russell, Ben Frost, Murcof, Hildur Guðnadóttir.

        Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.

        Nightports w/ Tom Herbert is the third in a series of albums from musician-producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater to be released on The Leaf Label, following 2018’s Nightports w/ Matthew Bourne and 2020’s Nightports w/ Betamax.

        Tom Herbert made his name as the bass player in Mercury Music Prize-nominated bands Polar Bear and The Invisible, and has become an in-demand collaborator and session musician, including work with Adele, Lana Del Ray and most recently The Smile. Having honed his craft holding the low-end down in some of the most forward-thinking British groups of recent times, and also appearing on some the biggest tracks of the last twenty years, Nightports w/ Tom Herbert brings Herbert’s command of the double bass into the spotlight.

        As with all of Nightports’ work, the album rewards close listening. They stay true to their manifesto in maintaining the essence of the original recordings. The processing never masks the organic source material,at times demonstrating the physicality of the instrument with detailed recordings of complete takes - the sound of the room, the creaking of strings and Herbert’s measured breathing. At other times they build more abstract, atmospheric layers from the parts.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. A1. Hibernal
        2. A2. Eye To Eye
        3. A3. Defeat
        4. A4. October
        5. A5. Inhabit
        6. B1. Arcs
        7. B2. Lumin
        8 B3. Hydrodynamica
        9. B4. Vacancy
        10. B5. Given

        "Musca" is the next in the series of domestic house albums to follow the groundbreaking LP classics  "Around The House" (1998), and "Bodily Functions" (2001).

        2021 is proving to be a bumper year for Herbert fans who can also look forward to a package of very special 12” remixes later this summer and the premiere of 10-years-in-the-making-documentary, Symphony of Noise, about his work with sound.

        After the wide expanse of his last big band album "The State Between Us" made with more than 1000 musicians and singers across Europe, this album instead is inward looking. Born of both intimacy and collaboration, features eight singers, Verushka, Siân Roseanna, Allie Armstrong,  Bianca Rose, Melissa Uye-Parker, Daisy Godfrey, Y’akoto and Joy Morgan - all of whom Matthew has never worked with before or met face to face. It also features musicians Nick Ramm, Tom Herbert, Tom Skinner, Finn Peters, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Leo Taylor, who, like the singers, all self-recorded and in isolation from each other. 


        TRACK LISTING

        LP
        A1. Two Doors Featuring Joy Morgan
        A2. Hypnotised Featuring Mel Uye-Parker
        A3. Might As Well Be Magical Featuring Allie Armstrong
        B1. Chain Reaction Featuring Bianca Rose
        B2. Fantasy Featuring Verushka
        B3. The Impossible Featuring Allie Armstrong
        B4. Unrestorable Featuring Siân Roseanna
        C1. Tell Me A Secret Featuring Siân Roseanna
        C2. The Slip
        C3. The Horror Featuring Allie Armstrong
        C4. The Way Featuring Y’akoto
        D1. Be Young Featuring Daisy Godfrey
        D2. Gold Dust Featuring Bianca Rose
        D3. Let Me Sleep Featuring Bianca Rose

        CD
        1. Two Doors Featuring Joy Morgan
        2. Hypnotised Featuring Mel Uye-Parker
        3. Chain Reaction Featuring Bianca Rose
        4. Might As Well Be Magical Featuring Allie Armstrong
        5. Fantasy Featuring Verushka
        6. The Impossible Featuring Allie Armstrong
        7. Let Me Sleep Featuring Bianca Rose
        8. The Slip
        9. The Horror Featuring Allie Armstrong
        10. The Way Featuring Y’akoto
        11. Tell Me A Secret Featuring Siân Roseanna
        12. Unrestorable Featuring Siân Roseanna

        ‘Classic albums’ may be an overused term but is entirely warranted here with the announced reissues of this pair of house music long-players from Matthew Herbert's extensive back catalogue, getting a release on triple vinyl his own Accidental label. 2001’s much celebrated ‘Bodily Functions’ has appeared in many Album Of The Decade lists, whilst 1998’s ‘Around The House’ set the benchmark for a new more considered approach to dance music production that sounds as crisp today as when it first hit the late 90’s dance floors.

        There have of course been many brilliant house albums since Bodily Functions and Around The House, many of them influenced by them, but there is a distinctive, timeless quality in the sounds and words these songs were made from. Those sounds include the distinctive voice of Matthew’s former wife Dani Siciliano as well as long time collaborator, the late pianist Phil Parnell, human blood flow, kitchen utensils, bones, domestic appliances, teeth and laser eye surgery. Indeed, Matthew’s now legendary Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (PCCOM) for which he is now famed, was considered radical at the time.

        “Both albums are loaded with music of exceptionally high quality” Pitchfork, 2002

        TRACK LISTING

        SIDE A
        1 (-)
        2 So Now...
        3 Around The House

        SIDE B
        1 Close To Me
        2 The Last Beat

        SIDE C
        1 Going Round
        2 This Time

        SIDE D
        1 In The Kitchen

        SIDE E
        1 We Still Have (The Music)
        2 Bedroom Jazz

        SIDE F
        1 Never Give Up
        2 We Go Wrong

        Herbert

        The Shakes

        “The Shakes” is Matthew Herbert’s first album under the name Herbert since 2006’s dark orchestral disco fantasy ‘Scale’. The album deals with intensely personal issues such as raising young children against a backdrop of an increasingly unstable world. Herbert himself suggests that the record can be seen as a treatise on how “music helps to motivate, provide respite and divert us from the challenges of the everyday” and that it is “electronic music for the soul.”

        In many ways, 'The Shakes' is a sequel to Herbert’s much-lauded 'Bodily Functions' album and is the latest in a series of albums that stretches back nearly 20 years to his minimalist house classic '100lbs'. It follows a vinyl-heavy trio of underground releases last year (Part 6,7,8) and is Herbert’s attempt to “seduce the listener back to the dancefloor”.

        Musicians featured on The Shakes include Dave Okumu (The Invisible, Jessie Ware) on guitar, Sam Beste (Hejira, Amy Winehouse) on keyboards, organ, saxophonist Ben Castle (Quincy Jones, Radiohead), trombonist Alistair White (Van Morrison, Blur) and Chris Storr (Beyonce, James Brown) on trumpet. Vocalists on the album include Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne (Hejira, Nitin Sawhney) - who sings on 'Middle', 'Smart', 'Ones', 'Know', 'Silence' and 'Warm' - and Ade Omotayo (Kindness, Amy Winehouse) - who sings on 'Battle', 'Strong', 'Stop', 'Bed', 'Safety' and 'Peak' - and notable highlights include Herbert’s Grandfather’s piano and a piano from Wormwood Scrubs on 'Smart', the sounds of UK protest marches ('Strong') and the sound of used bullets and shells bought from eBay on 'Safety'. Most notable of all however is Father Wills, the vast church organ of St Jude’s church in Hampstead that provides the huge depth and scale on much of the album. Who’d have thought that the church organ and techno went so well together?


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Battle
        2. Middle
        3. Strong
        4. Smart
        5. Stop
        6. Ones
        7. Bed
        8. Know
        9. Safety
        10. Silence
        11. Warm
        12. Peak


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