Goodbye Swingtime

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

Product Description
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.

Tracks:

Turning Pages
Everythings Changed
Fiction
The Three Ws
Chromoshop
The Battle
Misprints
The Many And The Few
Simple Mind
Stationary

Album Description

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:

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.......2004-03-31

It's hard to listen objectively to this album considering Herbert's past brilliance. A lot of the gushy reviewers would probably consider a Herbert duet with Shania Twain 'pure genius'. First, this album has only token 'electronic' gestures - if you listen to it as background music you would think slightly avante garde big band. Second, it's only mildly interesting. My dad (65,a big Wagner, Miles Davis fan) said the following, 'This is pretty good but it's not very challenging'. The point is, like Richard James in Druqs (piano vignettes), Herbert is capable of producing some 'pretty good' big band music but it's not his genre. There are other more highly skilled, adept proponents of this art.
That being said, if you've brought your new girlfriend home and she's doesn't quite 'get' your normal clicks, beats and grooves, this'll do fine.

One of these things is JUST like the other!.......2004-03-05

If you like the lush, strange, ecstatic, retro-vocal melancholy, sublime, sampled and genre-bending compostions of United Future Organization, Enzso, Funki Porcini, Caleb's Cosmosis, Future Sound of London or Bowery Electric, then you will love this.

'nuff said.

SUPHERB.......2004-01-15

I consider this one a masterpiece.A perfect blend of vocals,electronica ala herbert and the big band sound.Wether relaxing around the house or on a long car journey,this will keep you stimulated.Each track hitting you with a different suprise,my favorites are tracks 3,7 and 8.This is a must have for your collection.

SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-10-29

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!!

Astounding.......2003-09-30

I have to admit to not having paid much attention to Herbert in the past before I stumbled accross this incredible recording. The compositions have all the crunchiness and semi-dissonance that I love about Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Russell, Gil Evans and others. Very tight, very organic. Throw into the mix Herbert's lyrics as interpreted by some really good modern singers and it moves beyond mere Neo Big Band and into something altogether different. On top of this, Herbert adds electronica. Before long, you stop thinking "there's the jazz and there's the electronica". He's not the first to use electronics in a big band setting, but I think he's done something comnpletely new and completely wonderful. Highly recommended.

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