What happens when celebrity chefs and crafty musicians come together? If you guessed food-related musical instruments, you'd be correct. Chef Heston Blumenthal and musician Matthew Herbert are teaming up to create a woodwind instrument made exclusively from...pig bones. Cooooooool. Blumenthal, who has been known for several food-based experiments over the years, has revealed that he intends to raise and slaughter a pig for the instrument. Naturally, the pig will be prepared for consumption, while the bones will be used to construct a flute. Herbert, a musician known best for his experimental/avant-garde [...]
What happens when celebrity chefs and crafty musicians come together? If you guessed food-related musical instruments, you'd be correct. Chef Heston Blumenthal and musician Matthew Herbert are teaming up to create a woodwind instrument made exclusively from...pig bones. Cooooooool. Blumenthal, who has been known for several food-based experiments over the years, has revealed that he intends to raise and slaughter a pig for the instrument. Naturally, the pig will be prepared for consumption, while the bones will be used to construct a flute. Herbert, a musician known best for his experimental/avant-garde [...]
Matthew Herbert, Joker, Bok Bok, General Levy, Appleblim and Venetian Snares all play in April 2010.
Experimental electronic musician Matthew Herbert has recorded albums with some pretty strange source material before. 2001's Bodily Functions contained sounds taken from the human body and 2006's Scale sampled a drummer playing underwater, gas pumps, and coffins, among other things. Despite that, his upcoming 2010 album, One Pig , might be the oddest idea yet. Herbert is recording sounds from a single pig's life cycle, from birth to death, and you can even follow the pig yourself at this blog . It is now weaning. Now [...]
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Storica etichetta dell'elettronica e della cosiddetta dance intelligente ( IDM ), la !K7 mette a disposizione sul suo sito un'intera compilation da scaricare gratuitamente. Tutti i nomi di punta, quelli radunati per regalare questo assaggio del catalogo. Da Carl Craig agli Hot Chip, da Tosca a Herbaliser passando per Matthew Herbert per un totale di nove tracce con cui farsi un'idea degli album e magari scoprire nuovi artisti. E' sufficiente registrarsi qui e ricevere la mail con le istruzioni per il download, oltre a tutte le informazioni sulle novità della label. Dopo [...]
by Bill Pearis While this year's Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle canceled her CMJ appearances last week due to Visa issues, one of her fellow Mercury nominees, The Invisible , have managed to get their ducks in order and will be playing three NYC shows next week: a free show at Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday (11/4), Santos on Thursday (11/5) opening for Dragonette, and Friday (11/6) at Pianos. The Invisible were named part [...]
A trend in soundcloud album previewing can be said to emerge in the last months. Previously it was just tracks & mixtapes, but now that sites like soundcloud and bandcamp start to take streaming to a new level -and myspace continues to suck- , complete albums get streamed through said sites. So here are some forthcoming albums & compilations on soundcloud. First up is In the Red by UK nudisco/boogie/deep house champ Trus'me . The album will be released on December 7, but you can sample all the tracks on soundcloud, albeit for just 1 minutes. [...]
Or, perhaps the concert should have been entitled "Matthew Herbert Plays the Goldsmith's Choir", as I would propose that last night's performance marked their triumphant contribution, in making his performance the success that it was. Is there such a thing as a perfect concert evening? Last night certainly approached that. The Blade Runner setting of the Barbican complex itself contributed to setting my mood: one enters its hidden world of darkened brutalist architecture, hidden gardens, contemplative lakes, deep shadows, high walkways, confusing warrens and glittering skyscrapers with a kind of renewed appreciation for the cityscape, its beauty and [...]
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I RAah Project sono Tamil Rogeon e Ryan Ritchie : il braccio e la mente del progetto True Live : ensemble australiano che parte da sonorità classiche per finire al jazz, all'hip-hop intelligente e di spessore. I RAah Project sono questo e altro. Questo perché lo spettro sonoro non si discosta poi molto da quello dell'orchestra di Melbourne e altro perché il 'taglio' conferito a "Score" è geometricamente preciso, forse 'studiato' ma non per questo meno intenso, emozionale. Vengono alla mente i Jazzanova di "In Between" o i [...]
Elevate Compilation 2009 by Various Artists . Compilation with 13 Items, out on Elevate . Released on Saturday (09/26/2009) and available as MP3. [ Listen to this Release ] [ Download this Release ] Panorama Bar 02 by [...]
A dargli retta non c'è molto da stare allegri. Puntuale come l'uomo delle tasse è arrivato come ogni giovedí il consiglio musicale del cassiere del Tesco a Warren Street. Prende in mano la fetta di formaggio sottovuoto, fa come per pesarla, ci pensa su e toccandosi un sopracciglio quasi per pesare anch'esso, mi fa: Il Mercury Prize è diventato una barzelletta. Cosa ne sa Speech Debelle dei La Roux ? Se li hai visti dal vivo sai che si mangiano l'intera Casio Generation e la buttano via come si fa con lo yogurt scaduto [...]
Artist: Little PeopleSong: Eitheror.mp3Album: Mickey Mouse Operation Artist: Matthew Herbert (aka Doctor Rockit)Song: Cafe de Flore.mp3Album: Cained
Yes. This is a freaking Pitchfork re-post again. Don't hate the player hate the game. A list such as this is invaluable to avid music buyers, hence why we are imparting iy onto you, our loyal readers. Keeping it short, but some upcoming releases of highlight include: Alela Diane: Alela and Alina EP ; Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer 12" EP ; Jemina Pearl : Break It Up ; Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy; Music Go Music: Expressions and TONS more after jump. We conceited music bloggers sometimes [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Live It Out , Canada With more than 400 acts performing over five days, the buzz surrounding certain Pop Montreal bands is as subtle as the sound of the thousands of bicycles transporting festival-goers from one venue to the next. But once in awhile, the buzz leads to something special. Such was the case last night at the intimate Cabaret club. Opening band Micachu and the Shapes , on legendary UK label Rough Trade , [...]
Minus 8 recorded on Germany's downtempo and broken beat label Compost Records. I rather assumed that whoever was behind Minus 8 was German. Turns out it's Robert Jan Meyer and he's Swiss. Another who is probably most similar to Matthew Herbert, so it's no surprise he turns in a remix here. One of the few Swiss electronic dance music producers, Minus 8's myriad approach to the genre made his recordings some of the more championed albums by critics but also some of the least accessible for the populist audience, [...]
It begins with a roll of the shoulder, then a pirouette and a dip of the head, eyes almost glued to the feet. The Zidane Turn is truly one of the most extraordinary dance steps of modern times, remaining on a football pitch and kept off the world's dancefloors purely by the fact that only one man can do it. But its inspiration is felt in unusual places. "I was sitting in the studio thinking about how we were gonna make this record happen?" says Sam Hardaker, one half of Zero 7. "we definately needed to turn things round at [...]
Mono were a pop dance band, riding the trip hop wave in 1996/97. They produced some lovely stuff for anyone who ever liked St Etienne or Massive Attack's softer moments with Tracy Thorn. I know Moggieboy will think this all a bit dinner party pish but ignore him. Man cannot live by 130bpm alone. Mono were Martin Virgo and Siobhan de Maré. They released a single album and a few singles in 199697. Despite lots of promotion the album was inexplicbly not a hit. Shame, Siobhan had a lovely voice. And [...]
I've been spending a lot of time recently combing through Pitchfork's list of the top 500 songs of the decade, but one thing that has annoyed me is that I can't find a site that actually lists all 500 songs on one page. I'm tired of having to scroll through page after page. So, I'm doing it myself. Here's the complete list, republished merely as a reference. Go to www.pitchfork.com to see the full presentation with song reviews, artwork, and audio clips. 500. The Big Pink - "Velvet" 499. N.E.R.D. - "Run to the [...]
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
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HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
