The Matthew Herbert Big Band - Goodbye Swingtime (2003)

A "never-ever-seen"
swing creation

A very different kind of Big Band. Let me call it Progressive Big Band, yes I can. Goodbye Swingtime is a wonderful prodigious child of the future and the past. It is unique in style and feeling. It's both old-time and new-time. It has come a long way and is about to take you to places and times far ahead in the future.

Imagine a groundbreaking concept album in electronica but 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. I love it. So atmospheric and thoughtful. Mature, spacey, travelling, swingy. Wise, sad, well said, nostalgic, helpful. Wonderful Lyrics and extraordinary vocal parts add great value to beautiful experimental music.

This album is philosophical, poetical, architectural, political, mathematical.
It's a great effort and a great achievement.

Music making you smarter, wiser, better.

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

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