Goodbye Swingtime is the first album by The Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert

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 Big Band, released in May 2003. The whole album deals with the media in general. The albums consinsts of three instrumental tracks which introduce into the album, divides the album into to parts and end the album. The remaining tracks have vocal appearances by long-term collbaorator Dani Siciliano

Dani Siciliano

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, Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay

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, Mara Carlyle

Mara Carlyle

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, Jamie Lidell

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 and Shingai Shoniwa

Shingai Shoniwa

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. Before its release some of the songs had different titles and were in a different order.

December 2003 saw a release of the EP "The Process, The Parts, The Many And The Few". It contains various (working) versions of the album track "The Many And Thew Few", cut and alternative sequences of other songs and a Big Band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

rearrangement of "Café De Flore".

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Track listing

1. "Turning Pages" – 7:45
2. "Everything's Changed" – 4:44
3. "Fiction" – 4:14
4. "The Three W's" – 5:55
5. "Chromoshop" – 5:50
6. "The Battle" – 4:58
7. "Misprints" – 6:13
8. "The Many and the Few" – 5:01
9. "Simple Mind" – 5:20
10. "Stationary" – 8:29

Dal sito di M. Herbert
The Matthew Herbert Big Band: Goodbye Swingtime (2003)
Tracks:
1. Riding Out (07:43)
2. Everything's Changed (04:45)
3. Chromo Shop (05:48)
4. The WWW's (05:52)
5. Fiction (04:12)
6. The Battle (04:55)
7. Follow The Meaning (06:10)
8. Broken Bread (04:58)
9. Simple Mind (05:19)
10. Now & Then (08:04)