Loop Festival
Brighton plays host to the third annual Loop Festival, 10th to the 12th July 2009 with an inspired mix of live DJ acts, visual artists and special guests.
First up, Loop are thrilled to confirm restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and prolific collaborator, Matthew Herbert to launch the proceedings. Herbert is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads. Recording under his own name as well as Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radio Boy and others, Herbert has also produced and remixed artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg.
An alchemist of avant-garde sound in the tradition stretching from Stockhausen to the Aphex Twin, Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda. In his increasingly conceptual and political albums he has emerged as a unique figure in modern music
Matthew Herbert’s dazzling new album ‘There’s Me and There’s You’ is the most seductive, sophisticated and subversive collection of protest songs ever recorded. Blending lush jazz instrumentation, soulful vocals, fascinating rhythms and a secret underground arsenal of outlandish samples, the album marks Herbert’s second collaboration with his Big Band.
Herbert now returns with his Big Band featuring the incredible vocal talent of Eska Mtungwazi, for an exclusive UK appearance at Brighton Dome to launch Brighton’s Loop Festival, followed by a further date on Sunday 12th July.
Loop are also delighted to confirm in this initial announcement The Field, We Have Band, Tunng, The Invisible, Plugs, The Sian Alice Group, James Yuill, Esser, Emilliana Torinni, CasioKids, The XX, the Glimmers, Samim and Portico Quartet. There are many more acts to be confirmed over the following weeks, so keep your eyes peeled and sign up at loopbrighton.com for up-to-the minute news announcements.