Goodbye Swingtime [Import]

Herbert, Pete Cater | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Accidental
• ASIN: B00008XUQX
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,810 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Turning Pages

2. Everything’s Changed

3. Fiction

4. The Three W’s

5. Chromoshop

6. The Battle

7. Misprints

8. The Many And The Few

9. Simple Mind

10. Stationary

Editorial Reviews

The follow-up to Herbert’s highly acclaimed Bodily Functions album is his highly-anticipated big band project combining the cream of the UK jazz scene with Herbert’s electronic production. A 16-piece big band was recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios and then deconstructed and reconstructed at Herbert’s Magic and Accident studio.

Goodbye Swingtime features vocal performances from Arto Lindsay, Jamie Lidell (Super Collider / Warp), Dani Siciliano (Herbert), Mara Carlyle (Plaid) and Shingai Shoniwa (‘Bodily Functions’) alongside premier musicians from the UK jazz scene including Dave O’Higgins (saxophone), Dave Green (bass), Stuart Brooks (trumpet), and Phil Parnell (piano). Mouse on Mars and Plaid also contributed additional production to the album.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creature of Light !, September 19, 2003

By 

jazz_of_prodigyzone (Sofia, Bulgaria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goodbye Swingtime (Audio CD)

Goodbye Swingtime is a wonderful prodigious child of the future
and the past. It is unique in style and feeling.
It's both old-time and new-time.
It has come a long way and is about to take you to places
and times far ahead in the future.

Imagine a groundbreaking concept album in electronica but
accomplished through big band (jazz orchestra) music.
Recorded live!!! And then chopped to tiny pieces, edited,
reengineered and recollected to build up a never-ever-seen creature.

Mechanical and yet flesh and blood. Creature of light born in darkness.
This is it - Matthew Herbert's Goodbye Swingtime.

Absolutely recommended both to lovers of jazz music and electronic
maniacs.

I love it. So atmospheric and thoughtful. Mature, spacey, travelling, swingy.
Wise, sad, well said, nostalgic, helpful.

Wonderful Lyrics and extraordinary vocal parts add great value
to beautiful experimental music.

Goodbye is philosophical, poetical, architectural, political, mathematical.
It's a great effort and a great achievement.

Music making you smarter, wiser, better.

Favourite tracks: Turning Pages, Everything's changed, The Three W's,
...The Many and The Few, Simple Mind, Stationary ... I'm afraid I'll miss
something. Naaah. Absolutely Superb!

I very much recommend to all really interested in Matthew Herbert
and this incredible album to visit his site and read his own words
about the project. I am sure Matthew has a lot to tell you.

www.magicandaccident.com

Love and Respect!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!, October 28, 2003

By 

Darrell L. Lee "dlatrell" (Jackson, MS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goodbye Swingtime (Audio CD)

The Matthew Herbert Big Band can be categorized either two ways: under jazz or under electronica. Although, at times on this brilliant piece of work from the aforementioned mixer-extraordinaire, the latter is very minimal, but appropriate enough to satisfy even your average electronica fan. When I saw "Goodbye Swingtime" in the record store (much to my surprise), I was kind of leary of how Big Band swing and Herbert's infamous style of mixing together irregular beats and noises would sound--However, I should have trusted this guy to be able to handle the situation! Herbert has already demonstrated from "Bodily Functions" and "Secondhand Sounds" that he is more than capable of taking the complex and layered sounds of Big Band and mastering it into something amazing as evidenced here on "Goodbye Swingtime!" Songs such as the swanky, "Fiction," the sexy, "The Three W's," the funky, "The Many and the Few," and the steamy, "Simple Minds" (only to single out a few songs here)can attest to the remarkable blend of two genres totally unrelated to each other. This is some very good stuff, and if you are truly a Herbert-supporter, you'll go out and get this CD--it's incredible!!

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Albums to Appear This Year, September 25, 2003

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Mark Reilly (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goodbye Swingtime (Audio CD)

I saw the Matthew Herbert Big Band for the first time this past August when they opened for Bjork at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. They were absolutely incredible... as good as Bjork herself. On this album, the MHBB blends traditional jazz and american Big Band compositions with swirling and twisting layers of beats and electronics that, coupled together, create an entirely unique and enticing sound. In addition to this, truly gifted and original vocalists appear to deliver a compelling and truly thrilling CD. Do not miss this!