Name: The Horse
Brand: Matthew Herbert

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4050538888713

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-05-26

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WEA /­ ADA

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Sales:8.875

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4050538907438

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Matthew Herbert

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Modern Composition

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Modern Recordings

<p>Matthew Herbert is a British musician, DJ, and producer born in 1972. He is well known for his unique approach to electronic music, using sounds from everyday items to create his tracks. With several aliases under his belt, Herbert has also produced tracks for notable recording artists such as Dani Siciliano and Róisín Murphy. Notably, he is married to American vocalist Dani Siciliano.</p>

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Challenging his considerable legacy with one of his most extraordinary projects to date, celebrated British artist, producer, composer and experimentalist Matthew Herbert presents The Horse. Based around a full-size horse skeleton and working alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra and an expansive cast of special collaborators, this is Herbert in full flight, restlessly curious and culminating in starkly original, ritualistic music loaded with intent.

The project started with a search for the largest possible animal skeleton to explore sonically. More than a raw sound source, the horse skeleton Herbert acquired soon revealed different angles of inspiration. One of the major narrative arcs through the album is its representation of the evolution of human music itself, opening in a compelling, primitive flurry of custom-made flutes from the horse’s thigh bones and bows crafted from ribs and horse hair. By the mid-section you can hear a ritualistic twang of raw string (from a gut string stretched over the pelvis) give way to sustained compositional suites before crescendoing in a fierce electronic-acoustic fusion as grandiose as it is propulsive. The musical range covered on the album speaks to Herbert’s extensive experience across electronic, contemporary classical and jazz - a daring and constantly&nbsp;compelling collection of compositions.

The Horse

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