{"id":20035,"date":"2023-03-15T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20035"},"modified":"2023-03-15T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:02:56","slug":"matthew-herbert-previews-upcoming-album-the-horse-with-lead-single-the-horse-has-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20035","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Herbert previews upcoming album, The Horse<\/em>, with lead single ‘The Horse Has A Voice’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Eva Vermandel<\/p><\/div>\n

Behold! British artist, producer, composer and experimentalist Matthew Herbert<\/a> has announced the release of a new album. Entitled The Horse<\/em>, the record is a collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra and saw Herbert enlist an incredible cast of guest contributors, including Sons of Kemet\u2019s Shabaka Hutchings and Theon Cross, Evan Parker, regular Wayne Shorter collaborator Danilo P\u00e9rez, Polar Bear\u2019s Seb Rochford and Kokoroko\u2019s Edward Wakili-Hick. A search for the largest possible animal skeleton that could be explored sonically served as the origin for the album, which is based around a full-size horse skeleton. “One of the major narrative arcs through the album”, describes the press release, “is its representation of the evolution of human music itself, opening in a compelling, primitive flurry of custom-made flutes from the horse\u2019s thigh bones and bows crafted from ribs and horse hair”.<\/p>\n

The importance of the horse in human history became crucial for the album, and Herbert undertook recordings from various sources including 6900 horse sounds culled from the internet, reverb impulses in front of ancient cave paintings of horses in Northern Spain and sounds recorded at the corner of Epsom race course where women\u2019s suffrage activist Emily Davison was trampled by King George V\u2019s racehorse in 1913. Herbert has also used horse skin drums and a shaker shaped from a mixture of cement and polo horse semen. To help with creating or carving the instruments out of the skeleton, Herbert commissioned instrument makers Sam Underwood, Graham Dunning, Henry Dagg and Lee Patterson.<\/p>\n

The Horse<\/em>\u00a0arrives on May 26th through Modern Recordings<\/a> \/ BMG<\/a> and to celebrate the release, Herbert has shared the triumphant and propulsive <\/span>lead track, ‘The Horse Has A Voice’, featuring Theon Cross. We can’t control the impulse to\u00a0play<\/span>\u00a0it<\/span>\u00a0again<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0again. Check it out below.<\/span><\/p>\n