Matthew Herbert goes to Petersburg

On Saturday, July 25, the British composer, DJ and musical producer Matthew Herbert will perform at the Beatnik bar on Italian Street in St. Petersburg.

One of the most influential electronic musicians of our time, Matthew Herbert (b. 1972) turned into music a pig of a pig on a farm, release the newspaper The Guardian and a crunch of 3500 defeated apples, and also recorded a “Russian” program with the reclamation of a fragmentation of Pelevin to open the Olympic Games in London.

The sounds of everyday life are extremely important for Herbert's music. So, in the compositions from his 1998 album , “Around the House” , included in the PitchFork magazine in the top 100 of the best releases of the 1990s, the sounds of the kitchen are heard on the album “Bodily Functions” (16th among the best albums of the decades according to the Resident Advisor ) hair and skin, as well as internal organs of man.

For the The Shakes album, which was published in June 2015, Herbert recorded protest marches in London, played the piano in the current prison, and used the sounds of bullets bought in the online store for the Safety track.

The musician tours a lot . Since the end of May, he managed to visit Australia, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and return to the UK to speak at the Latitude festival. After the Olmeca Rise & Shine 2015 party in the Beatnik club, Herbert will take part in the new Berlin festival Pop-Kultur .