The late ’90s Charles Webster and Matthew Herbert collaboration is due for reissue on the Petite offshoot of Curle Recordings.
The second split release on the Tokyo-based 10 Label features an insert with an unidentified woman looking out at a cloudy horizon. It looks like a typically Utopian 50s image, and is in stark contrast to the music that the accompanying record contains. With just one exception, Replay is home to a mix of tracks that skirt sideways around modern conventions and popular tropes. The sole contribution that feels like it belongs to another time is Steven Porter’s “Fundamental Belief”. It is realised with a typically contemporary noisy undercurrent, but the slow motion hip hop beats, bugged out vocal sample and sluggish sensibility that the arrangement exudes reminds this writer of trip hop from the late 90s
Perc, Matthew Herbert and Dalhous all feature on the second transmission from the Kyoto-based label.
Accidental Records have announced details of a mammoth 130 track digital “box set” covering Matthew Herbert’s house-leaning productions from 1996 to 2006.
Matthew Herbert has exhumed his Wishmountain moniker for a forthcoming album called Tesco, set for release via his own Accidental imprint.
Micachu will provide an EP of remixes to accompany Matthew Herbert‘s forthcoming One Pig album, it has been announced.
Finnish duo Renaissance Man are getting ready to unleash their debut album, entitled The Renaissance Man Project, which is an accurate title based on the above footage.
Matthew Herbert has announced the impending release of his One Pig album, recorded entirely from the noises made by a pig he followed through birth, life, butchery and consumption.
Artist: Matthew Herbert
Title: One One
Label: Accidental
Genre: Leftfield
Format: CD, Digital
Buy From: Juno Records, Juno Download
Avant-garde musician Matthew Herbert welcomes spring with the release of the first installment in his “One” trilogy, entitled One One. The album’s title is fitting, because the man of many samples has chosen to use just one here – himself. Herbert wrote, performed, produced and recorded everything on the album, and also decided to add vocals in the mix, sung all by his lonesome. Sounding somewhere between Alexis Taylor and Erlend Øye, Herbert lulls with soft vocals and self assured lyrics detailing a day in the life of one man.
For those hoping for the return of Herbert’s signature deep house, you’ll have to wait for the last installment in his trilogy, One Club, because with One One, Herbert displays his soft side, and in many ways this album could be considered a sort of eclectic folk album. Each track has an intimate feel to it, as Herbert confides in his listener, asking: “Who knows where this journey will be taking us? Who cares?” on “Leipzig”, and croons about his second home in the stripped-down and emotional “Berlin”.
Each track’s title is the name of a city, and this quiet collection of songs is like a travel guide of Herbert’s thoughts and memories. Highlights are “Dublin” and “Milan”, which best reveal his vocal chops. For those of you looking for a subtle and introspective album by an excellent and ever-changing musician, One One is for you. Check it.
Review: Matt Leslie
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