Matthew Herbert Announces Ambitious New Album

In 2011, photographer Sebastian Mayer was embedded on the front lines in Libya just as the Arab Spring was beginning its downward ascent. He had been in Afghanistan as a frontline war photographer a year before, and found that his photographs, while terrifying to look at, lacked the other component that made being in combat so visceral and encompassing: sound. Once in Libya, he rigged a Samson H4 recorder and hung the microphone out of his jacket. Meyer was in Ras Lanuff one day when he came wit...

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