Matthew Herbert - Temple (Music from the Original TV Series) '2019

Tracks list

Matthew has composed the music for a new Sky original TV series Temple starring
Mark Strong, Carice van Houten and Daniel Mays. Episode one airs on Sky One on
Sept 13th with the entire series streamable on the same day.

Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose
range of innovative works extends from more than 30 albums (including the
much-celebrated Bodily Functions) to scores for Oscar-winning films (A Fantastic
Woman) as well as music for the National Theatre, Broadway, TV series (Noughts
and Crosses BBC), games (Lego) and radio. He has performed solo, as a DJ and
with various musicians including his own 21 piece big band and 100 piece choir
all round the world from the Sydney opera house, to the Hollywood Bowl and
created installations, plays and opera.

He has remixed iconic artists such as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge
Gainsbourg and Mahler and been a long time collaborator of Bjork’s. He
has had work commissioned by the Royal Opera House, the BBC and Deutsche
Gramophon amongst many others but he is best known for working with sound,
turning ordinary or so-called found sound in to electronic music. His most
celebrated work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and
beyond. His debut book The Music published by Unbound in 2018 and he is the
creative director of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

In 2016 Matthew began work on his third Big Band album, his most ambitious and
collaborative project to date. Made with over 1000 musicians and singers from
across the EU, The State Between Us began as a project responding to the
triggering of Article 50 and the dramatic shift in the national story that began
in June 2016. Over the course of the next two years – against the
backdrop of a relentlessly challenging news cycle and via large-scale recording
sessions in Rome, Berlin, Leipzig, Madrid and London Matthew has created a work
on an epic scale, and entirely independently.

The State Between Us is an album that contemplates what it means to be British
in 2019. Its sixteen tracks reflect a journey on foot across Great Britain (and
beyond) imagined in melodies carefully woven with site-specific recordings.
World War II planes in flight rub against a Ford Fiesta being broken down into
its component parts; the loneliness of a cross-channel swimmer follows a single
cyclist riding around Chequers (before being held by Special Branch). Here, the
evocative sounds of empty harbours, and factories being demolished, of ancient
trees and the calls of soon to be extinct animals ebb and flow through music
that poses one hugely significant question – Where’s Home? Set
against the rise of the far right rhetoric and violence in the UK and abroad The
State Between Us is a demonstration, not just in content, but also in how it was
put together, of the value of music and the imagination in standing up for
tolerance, compassion, difference.

Tracklist:
01. Matthew Herbert - Titles (1:16)
02. Matthew Herbert - Opening (0:44)
03. Matthew Herbert - Anna Wakes Up (2:09)
04. Matthew Herbert - Eves Letter (2:44)
05. Matthew Herbert - Boat out to Sea (5:21)
06. Matthew Herbert - Ending A (1:05)
07. Matthew Herbert - Kidney Deal (7:13)
08. Matthew Herbert - Recap (1:13)
09. Matthew Herbert - DIY Love (1:04)
10. Matthew Herbert - What Happens Next (2:30)
11. Matthew Herbert - Daniel and Beth in Bed (1:34)
12. Matthew Herbert - Daniel Says Goodbye (0:58)
13. Matthew Herbert - A New Donor (1:33)
14. Matthew Herbert - Hospital Montage (2:50)
15. Matthew Herbert - Fragile Hope (2:36)
16. Matthew Herbert - Ending B (5:04)
17. Matthew Herbert - Montage (2:39)
18. Matthew Herbert - Ending Credits (1:05)

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