Published
Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 15:01
- The 16-track LP comes out on the same day as Brexit goes into effect.
Matthew Herbert's Brexit Big Band project is releasing an album called The State Between Us.
Due out March 29th on Accidental, the 16-track release is timed to coincide with the day the United Kingdom is planning to leave the European Union. The album represents "a journey on foot across Great Britain" by lacing together pieces of music with location recordings, including the sounds of a swimmer crossing the English channel, a Ford Fiesta being disassembled and a deep fried trumpet.
Over 1000 musicians and writers contributed to the record, including No Wave pioneer Arto Lindsay and British playwright Caryl Churchill. The group is billed collectively as the Great Britain and Gibraltar European Union Membership Referendum Big Band.
The album follows a reissue campaign on Accidental Jnr that made available Herbert's essential Parts series for the first time since the late '90s.
Watch a trailer for the record.
Tracklist
01. A Devotion Upon Emergent Occasions
02. Fiesta
03. You're Welcome Here
04. Run It Down
05. The Tower
06. An A-Z Of Endangered Animals
07. Reisezehrung
08. Moonlight Serenade
09. Be Still
10. The Words
11. The Special Relationship
12. Where's Home
13. Fish And Chips
14. Backstop (Newbury To Strabane)
15. Feedback
16. Women Of England
Accidental Records will release The State Between Us on March 29th, 2019.
