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The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Goodbye Swingtime

Album UK 2003 on Accidental label
Electronic and Jazz (Big Band, Future Jazz, Experimental, Swing)

All tracks written according to the rules o PCCOM (Personal Contract for the Composition of Music). All tracks recorded at Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios, July 4 - 7, 2002, except track 7 recorded at Magic and Accident and track 5 recorded at Air Studios, July 2001. All additional recordings and vocals made at Magic and Accident. Mastered at The Exchange, December 12, 2002 and February 22 & 24, 2003. Chris Bolster is an in-house engineer at Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios. Ali Mahdavi appears courtesy of Eugenia Melian. Track 4 contains sounds (referred to as "Noises" in the credits) of Mara Carlyle typing of the URL for the School of Americas' Watch website detailing American involvment in Latin American military dictatorships and printing of pages from the same website. Track 5 contains sound recordings of 16 supermarket shopping tills. Track 7 contains sounds (referred to as "Noises" in the credits) of a working paper guillotine operated by Christine Hadlow, courtesy of Catford Print Centre in London. Track 8 contains sounds of local phonebooks being dropped on floors by people around the world. Released in a hard cover gatefold with a 10 page booklet (7 pages are cut out to give a pop-up book effect of a landscape) and CD wallet page attached. ***There is at least one copy of this item that has a sticker with a different barcode covering the barcode on the back panel. The code is 8 27884 00002 1. The barcode 827884000014 is the code for the vinyl version according to Amazon. The code 82788400021 is the Discogs listing for the vinyl version Goodbye Swingtime. It is not known right now if there are other copies of this item with this barcode sticker present on it. It is also not known who (the label? the distributor? a third party?) placed this barcode sticker on the copy that has it.

Musicians

	The Matthew Herbert Big Band , album by
	Simon Niblock fl, as, cl, GB alto saxophone, clarinet
	Howard McGill sax, fl, cl, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
	Bob McKay sax, bs, cl, baritone saxophone, clarinet
	Dave Green b, cb, *1942 GB bass, bass, additional
	Peter Wraight directed by, arranged by, written by, co-written by, flugelhorn, orchestra, mouthpiece orchestra
	Pete Cater dr, GB drums
	Russell Swift leader, band fixed by
	Rebecca Gibson other, music preparation by
	Angelo Plantamura photography by, model
	Ali Mahdavi photography by, portrait
	Phil Parnell p, key, US piano
	Matthew Herbert ep, key, p, *1972 GB recorded by, additional recordings, written by, piano, hohner vibe-piano thing, lyrics by, lyrics by, guitar
	Dave O'Higgins ts, sax, *1964 GB tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
	Nigel Hitchcock ts, alp, as, *1971 GB tenor saxophone
	Martin Williams sax, ts, as, tenor saxophone, clarinet
	Andy Wood tb, trombone
	Chris Cole tb, trombone
	Gordon Campbell tb, trombone
	John Higginbotham tb, tu, trombone, tuba
	Adam Linsley tr, GB trumpet
	Andrew Cook trumpet
	Graham Russell tr, trumpet
	Stuart Brooks tr, fh, trumpet
	Jamie Lidell voc, *1973 GB other, processing, vocals, written by, co-written by, lyrics by
	Arto Lindsay g, voc, *1953 US lyrics by, vocals, written by, co-written by
	Mara Carlyle voc, uke, *1974 GB vocals, noises, typing, printing
	Dani Siciliano voc, US vocals, 8 parallel vocals, vocals, vocal snippets
	Shingai Shoniwa voc, bvoc, *1980 GB vocals, 8 parallel vocals
	Christine Hadlow , noises

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