Sep 20, 2017
Matthew has composed the music for the new film Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio which stars Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola | The Guardian give a 4/5 review and write: ‘musical score by Matthew Herbert; its musing and almost playful woodwind figures cut against the expected sombreness and obvious melancholy to contribute to this sense of disorientation and subversion. This is...
Sep 20, 2017
To celebrate the launch of Arcade East, London College of Fashion’s new project space, musician and DJ Matthew Herbert’s new experimental music and scent performance Smell the DJ explores the masculine symbolism surrounding music and male perfumes. Inspired by the inflated masculine symbolism inherent in commercial men’s perfume bottle designs utilising shapes of hand grenades,...
Aug 17, 2017
Matthew has co-produced the debut album for London band ILK. Out now on Accidental Records. “At their first attempt ILK have created an artistic triumph sonically” The Line Of Best Fit 8/10 “Unusual art-pop stylings fuelled by jittery electronics” Clash Magazine “The combination of producer Matthew Herbert and London trio ILK may turn out to be the modern day equivalent...
Aug 11, 2017
Matthew has create a piece of music for the BBC’s New European Songbook entitled The Boat That Brought Me Here. The piece was born out of a collaboration with Iranian percussionist Arian Sadr who now lives in Manchester. The film maker Akinola ‘CrackStevens’ Davis then made a film to accompany the piece that represents the...
Jun 20, 2017
Karl Hyde and Matthew Herbert have announced the release of a new album called Fatherland (Original Music from the Stage Show). The album is made up of music based on extracts from the script for Fatherland, a play written in collaboration by Karl Hyde, playwright Simon Stephens and Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham which will premiere at Manchester...
Jun 20, 2017
Matthew has written the music for a new play The Unknown by EV Crowe. It is being performed at The Royal Court theatre’s new experimental design space The Site.
Jun 20, 2017
For 2017′s Manchester International Festival Matthew has joined 5 other composers in each creating a new piece of work using the sounds of the city… Music for a Busy City takes six leading composers out of the concert hall and into Manchester, making music for the spaces through which we pass every day. This pioneering project...
Mar 10, 2017
Following two acclaimed big band albums, Matthew Herbert announces a third in response to Brexit. This time though, it’s being put together differently. It is a two year collaborative project right across Europe celebrating artistic and musical collaboration and communities across national borders. The project will begin in England at the point at which the...
Feb 27, 2017
Matthew has created a one off experimental response to Benjamin Brittens Opera ‘Death In Venice’ for the Deutsche Oper Berlin: DEATH IN VENICE is Benjamin Britten’s compositional legacy. In this adaptation of Thomas Mann’s eponymous novella, the English composer has penned a work comprising an old, wise view of 400 years of operatic history, the...
Feb 8, 2017
Matthew has created the music for a new film by Sebastián Lelio called Una Mujer Fantastica (A Fantastic Woman). The world premiere is taking place on at the 67th Berlinale Sunday, February 12, 2017 in the Berlinale Palast. Other performances at the Berlinale are: 13:02:17 12:30 Zoo Palast 1 13:02:17 15:00 Friedrichstadtpalast 13:02:17 21:30 Odeon Cinema – Berlinale Goes Kiez 13:02:17...
Nov 18, 2016
Fatherland – a bold new theatre show created by Scott Graham from Frantic Assembly, Underworld’s Karl Hyde and playwright Simon Stephens, focusing on contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the trio’s home towns in the heart of the country, Fatherland is a survey of life in England’s towns today....
Nov 9, 2016
A tour of Italy and a date in London are coming up for the trio of Matthew Herbert, Enrico Rava and Giovanni Guidi: 11 Nov – Matthew Herbert, Enrico Rave & Giovanni Guidi – Reggio Emilia, Italy 12 Nov - Matthew Herbert, Enrico Rave & Giovanni Guidi – Morrovalle, Italy 13 Nov - Matthew Herbert, Enrico Rave...
