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Matthew Herbert’s pig album release date set

By | Published on Wednesday 6 July 2011

Matthew Herbert

The third instalment of Matthew Herbert’s ‘One’ trilogy, ‘One Pig’, which has been created from recordings of the life and death of a pig, will be released by the producer’s own Accidental Records label on 10 Oct, it has been announced.

The album was condemned by animal rights organisation PETA when it was originally announced, accusing Herbert of believing that “cruelty is entertainment”.

Herbert later told CMU: “This project is in part about dealing head on with the conditions and realities of a modern food industry. As I eat meat, I would have thought PETA would have been pleased that I am confronting the consequences of that choice”, adding that the pig was “kept in excellent conditions”.

The first record in the trilogy, ‘One One’, was created using over 2000 samples created by around 350 people on a single day in various cities around the world. The follow-up, ‘One Club’, was created entirely from sounds recorded in one night at the Robert Johnson nightclub in Frankfurt, with microphones rigged up all across the building, from the cloakroom to the DJ booth to the toilets.

Ahead of the final instalment’s release, Herbert will present a live version of ‘One Pig’ at the Royal Opera House in September, as part of Mike Figgis’s Just Tell The Truth festival. No pigs will actually be killed during the show, it’s alright.



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