HERBERT - Musca - CD

LABEL: Accidental

CAT NO: AC165CD

BARCODE: 5053760079309

Tracklisting:

1. Two Doors featuring Joy Morgan
2. Hypnotised featuring Mel Uye-Parker
3. Might As Well Be Magical featuring Allie Armstrong
4. Chain Reaction featuring Bianca Rose
5. Fantasy featuring Verushka
6. The Impossible featuring Allie Armstrong
7. Unrestorable featuring Siân Roseanna
8. Tell Me A Secret featuring Siân Roseanna
9. The Slip
10. The Horror featuring Allie Armstrong
11. The Way featuring Y’akoto
12. Be Young featuring Daisy Godfrey
13. Gold Dust featuring Bianca Rose
14. Let Me Sleep featuring Bianca Rose

HERBERT – Musca

CD

Musca is the next in the series of domestic house albums to follow the groundbreaking LP classics Around The House (1998), and Bodily Functions (2001).

After the wide expanse of his last big band album The State Between Us made with more than 1000 musicians and singers across Europe, this album instead is inward looking.

Matthew says: “Like presumably many other albums made during the last year, Musca reflects on navigating the challenges and joys of our most intimate relationships whilst the world is in turmoil. Not just with Covid, but with the rise in state and political violence, facebook-friendly fascism, white supremacy and a climate in crisis.”

Born of both intimacy and collaboration, Musca features eight singers, Verushka, Siân Roseanna, Allie Armstrong, Bianca Rose, Mel Uye-Parker, Daisy Godfrey, Y’akoto and Joy Morgan – all of whom Matthew has never worked with before or met face to face. It also features musicians Nick Ramm, Tom Herbert, Tom Skinner, Finn Peters, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Leo Taylor, who, like the singers, all self-recorded and in isolation from each other.

“Experimental doyen circles back to his roots in house music” Electronica Album of the Month – Mojo **** (UK)

“Dynamic and playful”, “Musca” reminds the world of the virtues of an artist who is capable of dominating the setting like few others – Mondo Sonoro 8/10 (ES)

Despite the frequent rhythmic vivacity, Musca is a highly intimate and reflective work… discreetly danceable but full of ideas – Rumore 78/100 (IT)

“Exudes the usual elegance and always brilliant style of the British DJ, musician and producer” – DJ Mag Italia (IT)