Biography
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Music production and co-production work includes:
Antony Hegarty
The Crying Light Live Show – Rewrites and Production (To be performed throughout 2009)
Patrick Wolf (Bloody Chamber Music)
Track ‘Who Will’ on the album The Bachelor
Micachu (Accidental/Rough Trade)
Album ‘Jewellery’ (Produced)
The Invisible (Accidental)
Mercury Prize nominated album ‘The Invisible’ (Produced)
Finn Peters (Accidental)
Album ‘Butterflies’ (Produced)
Roisin Murphy (Echo Records/Chrysalis)
Album ‘Ruby Blue’
Bjork (One Little Indian)
Tracks ‘Hidden Place’ and ‘Pagan Poetry’ on the album ‘Vespertine’ (Produced)
Remixes include:
Bjork (One Little Indian)
Tracks ‘Declare Independence’, ‘Pagan Poetry and ‘Wanderlust’
Christian Vogel (Novamute)
Track ‘La Isla Piscola’
Cinematic Orchestra (Ninja Tune)
Track ‘All That You Give’
Ennio Morricone (Compost)
Track ‘Dinamica per 5 + 1’
John Cale (EMI)
Track ‘Chums of Dumpty’
Kenny Clarke Big Band (Universal Jazz Germany)
Track ‘Um Grão De Areia’
Mahler (Deutche Grammophon)
‘Symphony 10’
Moloko (Echo)
Track ‘Forever More’, ‘Flipside’ and ‘Sing It Back’
Perry Farrell (Virgin)
Track ‘Happy Birthday Jubilee’
Quincy Jones w. Bill Cosby (Concord)
Tracks ‘59 95’ and ‘Take 2’
R.E.M. (R.E.M./Athens)
Track ‘I've Been High’
Roy Ayers (Rapster)
Track ‘Touch Of Class’
Serge Gainsbourg (Universal)
Track ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
Two Banks of Four (Sirkus)
Track ‘Street Lullabies’
Ursula Rucker (K7)
Track ‘Seven’
Yoko Ono (n/a)
Track ‘I'm Not Getting Enough’
Zero 7 (Ultimate Dilemma)
Track ‘End Theme’ (unreleased)
Writing/co-writing credits:
The Invisible (Accidental)
Tracks ‘London Girl’ and ‘Climate’
Finn Peters (Accidental)
Track ‘Butterflies’
Thom Yorke/Bjork (One Little Indian)
Track ‘Nattura
Dizzee Rascal (XL)
Track ‘Flex’
Roisin Murphy (Echo/Chrysalis)
Album ‘Ruby Blue’
Film & TV Composition:
Includes:
Eurovision Song Contest 2009 country idents (Eurovision)
80 piece orchestral score for French film musical Agathe Clery (Telemar)
Electronic score for HBO's 'A Number' (HBO)
Score (unused) for award-winning Italian film: Gomorrah (Fandango)
Theatre Work:
Judgment Day at The Royal National Theatre (London)
Caryl Churchill at the Royal Court Theatre (London and Broadway)
Artist:
Matthew has recorded numerous albums under the names Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy, Herbert, The Matthew Herbert Big Band and Matthew Herbert.
Noteworthy albums include:
Herbert
Scale (K7/Accidental, 2006)
Around The House (K7/Soundslike, 2002)
Second Hand Sounds (Remixes) (Peacefrog, 2002)
Bodily Functions (K7/Soundslike, 2001)
Matthew Herbert Big Band
There's Me And There's You (K7/Accidental, 2008)
Goodbye Swingtime (Accidental, 2003)
Radio Boy
The Mechanics of Destruction (Accidental, 2001)
Matthew Herbert
Plat Du Jour (Accidental, 2005)
Let's All Make Mistakes (Tresor, 2000)
DJ:
800 gigs worldwide
Live Performance:
Sydney Opera House, Hollywood Bowl, every major arts venue in europe including La Villette in paris, The Barbican and Royal Festival Hall in London, the Cada da Musica in Porto, the Palau Musica in Barcelona, plus every european festival of note.