One Pig is a concept album by British musician Matthew Herbert , released in 2011 . The disc is the final part of the trilogy, the first part of which - One One is dedicated to one day in Herbert's life, and the second - One Club - to one night spent in the Frankfurt Club.
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| Date of issue | October 10, 2011 | |||
| Recorded by | 2009—2011 | |||
| Genres | Electronic , experimental , specific , field recording | |||
| Duration | 43:35 | |||
| A country |  Great Britain | |||
| Language of songs | English (track number 9) | |||
| Label | Accidental | |||
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Content
About the album
One Pig is dedicated to the birth, life of one pig , including its slaughter and eating, and is entirely based on the sounds that accompanied these events. Work on the album began in August 2009, at the same time as the birth of the pig, which was slaughtered and frozen 25 weeks later. Herbert chose the date of eating a pig by chance: on August 16, 1945, George Orwell's novel Animal Farm was published. In May 2011, when work on the record was coming to an end, the composer returned to the pigsty , where he walked and hummed, “as if in memory of my pig”; these sounds formed the basis of the last track [2] .
The record caused a scandal in the musician’s homeland, where it was considered that the screech of a slaughtered pig was used to create it [3] . PETA tried to prevent the release of the album, according to which Herbert decided to turn animal cruelty into a spectacle [4] . Responding to these accusations, the composer said that he was not allowed to the slaughter, and its sounds were not used on the recording, the purpose of which, according to Herbert, was to persuade listeners to vegetarianism [3] .
List of Songs
All compositions are written by Matthew Herbert, except for “December” (with Mika Levy) and “August 2010” (with Sam Best).
- August 2009 - 6:54
- “September” - 5:51
- “October” - 5:52
- "November" - 2:34
- “December” - 3:31
- “January” - 4:04
- “February” - 6:18
- August 2010 - 6:05
- May 2011 - 2:34
- Industrial Pigs Killed Sawn Crowded Crated Castrated Teeth Pulled ( iTunes Bonus Track) - 1:35
Notes
- ↑ Natalia Yugrinova. Justice, Matthew Herbert, M83 et al. . OpenSpace.ru (10.27.2011). Date of treatment October 30, 2011. Archived September 2, 2012.
- ↑ Alexander Gorbachev. Matthew Herbert: “Grunting was order” . afisha.ru (10.25.2011). Date of treatment October 30, 2011. Archived September 2, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Alexander Voronov. Sound landing // Kommersant Weekend. - 2011. - No. 40 (3636) .
- ↑ Matthew Herbert finished recording the last record of the trilogy One . Znaki.fm (07/05/2011). Date of treatment October 30, 2011. Archived September 2, 2012.
Links
- One Pig on AnyDecentMusic?