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Track Listing
- Funeral
- End
- Rivoli Shuffle
- The Apartment
- Singing In the Rain
- Cafe De Flore
- Gang Of Boys
- Blood And Hair
- Bull And Cloth
- Rendezvous
- Indiscretion
- Forest Montage
- Broken Piano
- Tristesse
- Running From the Credits
- Nicotine
- Closing Theme
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #48981 in Music
- Released on: 2007-04-09
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
Customer Reviews
Always innovative.
Matthew Herbert is best known as an electronic/house-music composer and producer (see last year's excellent Scale), although often his seemingly electronic sounds are generated from acoustic instruments or nonmusical objects.
He's interested in thematic concepts, found sounds and unique recording environments, but he has also done credible work with a traditional big band (see 2003's Goodbye Swingtime).
Herbert has always been something of a dramatist, and for this reason it is sometimes hard to swallow his version of things.
He always makes an effort to imbue his records, his staged press photographs and his public announcements with big meanings and ideas, often too blatantly, and the effect is that he's always in danger of seeming patronising in his nobility (the Al Gore of dance music?).
Yet we forgive him, and his habit of forcing us to listen to his politics, because he represents his ideas with some of the most genuinely human and innovative music around.
His latest offering "Score" takes a step back: it tones down the politics somewhat and continues with the dramatic trend, literally, since it offers a collection of theatre and film scores that have accompanied, or have been rejected in some cases, from various shorts and features over the last ten years.
Yes, there is a picture of tranquil, bombed houses in Lebanon to greet the listener, as well as samples of bombers, petrol pumps and coffins, but what the music offers is a pan-European cinematic experience and more self-referentially, a revisit of the Matthew Herbert Big Band sound from 2003.
This album collects pieces Herbert has done for films and a ballet.
Best are the jazzy big-band tracks: the cut-and-paste "Singing in the Rain", the swinging "Rivoli Shuffle", the clicky, toe-tapping "Gang of Boys".
Like most soundtracks, "Score" includes some all-too-brief fragments, but everything here contains details that repay attention.
