Mar 09,  · Goodbye Swingtime combines swing jazz and abstract electronics to startling and surprising effect. The vocals (like on “Fiction”) only enhance this feel of both retro and nouveau. There’s moodiness present (“The Three W’s”) as /5().

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.3/5(8).

Matthew Herbert takes his one-of-a-kind sensibility back to the Roaring `20s, when big band swing music was all the rage. Goodbye Swingtime combines swing jazz and abstract electronics to startling and surprising effect. The vocals (like on "Fiction") only enhance this feel of both retro and nouveau. There's moodiness present ("The Three W's") as well as wistful ("The Many 5/5(1).

Matthew Herbert doesn't come by his swing connections lightly. As a teenager he played keyboards in a piece Glenn Miller tribute band, though it must be granted, that gig was simply one among many during an active early career. (He began making music at the age of four, inspired by his father, a sound engineer for the BBC.).

Mar 09,  · referencing Goodbye Swingtime, CD, Album, AC05, ac05 Matthew Herbert takes his one-of-a-kind sensibility back to the Roaring ‘20s, when big band swing music was all the rage. Goodbye Swingtime combines swing jazz and abstract electronics to startling and surprising effect/5().

Nov 26,  · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Goodbye Swingtime on Discogs. Label: Accidental - AC05LP,Accidental - ac05lp • Format: 2x, Vinyl LP, Album • Country: UK • Genre: Electronic, Jazz • Style: Big Band /5(74).

Aug 19,  · The Matthew Herbert Big Band; Goodbye Swingtime. creatively arranged big band album that becomes breathtaking when the "The Three W's" uses a looped section of the aforementioned printing.

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