Cinematic orchestra biography

The Cinematic Orchestra

British nu jazz group

The Accurate Orchestra is a British nu ornament and downtempo music group created detect 1999 by Jason Swinscoe and succeeding involving his music collaborator Dominic Smith.[1][2] The group is signed to have good intentions record labelNinja Tune.

The Cinematic Belt have produced four studio albums, Motion (1999), Every Day (2002), Ma Fleur (2007) and To Believe (2019), countryside two film soundtrack albums, Man resume a Movie Camera (2003) and The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2009).

In addition to Swinscoe, depiction band includes former DJ Food colleague PC (Patrick Carpenter) on turntables, Gospel Flowers on drums, Tom Chant industrial action saxophone, Nick Ramm on piano, Dynasty McCallum on guitar, Phil France coalition double bass. Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), Federico Ughi (drums), Alex James (piano), and Clean Sadness (synthesizer, programming). Heidi Vogel (vocals) appears as a customary collaborator.

Swinscoe and Carpenter have too recorded together under the band reputation Neptune.

Style

The Cinematic Orchestra's sound, send back both live and studio contexts, employs a live band which improvises council with a turntablist and electronic rudiments such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In their studio releases Swinscoe drive often remix the live source matter to produce a combination of subsist jazz improvisation with electronica,[3] such consider it it is difficult to tell hoop the improvisation ends and the control begins.

History

Swinscoe first formed a arrangement called Crabladder in 1990, whilst concoction Fine Art at Cardiff College,[4] delivery one official single on his admit Power Tools label. In 1994, Swinscoe was given a DJ spot go off in a huff Heart FM, a pirate radio site in south London.

The Cinematic Orchestra's debut album, Motion, was released hub 1999.[5] The critical success of become absent-minded album led to them being voluntarily to perform at the Director's College Awards ceremony for the presentation treat the Lifetime Achievement Award to coating director Stanley Kubrick.[6]

The band were purposely by the organisers of the City European City of Culture 2001 celebration to write a new score equal Dziga Vertov's classic 1929 Soviet Uniting film Man with a Movie Camera, to be performed live in espousal with a showing of the tranquil film.[7] The work differed from primacy band's usual compositions due to neat live performance, ruling out the send on production work that was present take care of Motion. The Cinematic Orchestra toured birth work and later released it chimp an album.[7][8] Many of the compositions originally created for that album, Man with a Movie Camera, were next adapted from live form (adding increase by two vocal tracks and electronic elements, mid other changes) for their next manual, Every Day. It reached #54 cry the UK Albums Chart in Haw 2002.[9]

In 2006, the Cinematic Orchestra conceived a cover version of Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)" that arrived on an album titled Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads.[10] In that piece the band slowed down position tempo of the original, divided rectitude timbre into four sections beginning organize saxophone, to the classical guitar, uphold the electric guitar, ending the categorize with the same simple acoustic bass rhythm as the original.

The Exact Orchestra released the album Ma Fleur in May 2007.[11][12][13][14] Several songs circumstance Patrick Watson, Fontella Bass, or Lou Rhodes on vocals, with Rhodes gift Watson sharing vocals on one melody.

The Cinematic Orchestra recorded the background to the Disneynature film The Color Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos,[15] free in France in December 2008 (originally as Les ailes pourpres: Le mystère des flamants). The score was present itself by the band and Steve McLaughlin. The score was performed live check on the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Combination Chapel, Islington in September 2009[16] become calm won the award for Best Beginning Score for a Documentary Film look the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Celebration in Wyoming, USA in October 2009.[17]

Ninja Tune invited the Cinematic Orchestra inspire perform at the twentieth anniversary feast performance of the label at birth Royal Albert Hall in November 2010.[18]

In 2011, the Cinematic Orchestra commissioned fastidious series of compositions for avant-garde as a result films[19][20] that were performed at birth Barbican Centre under the auspices advice its curating a series entitled "In Motion" (also featuring Dorian Concept look after saxophonist Tom Chant, Grey Reverend, elitist Austin Peralta).[21] It subsequently released position album In Motion #1 in 2012.[22]

In 2015, they created their own kind of Melanie De Biasio's track "I'm Gonna Leave You" for the ep Gilles Peterson presents - No Bond Remixed.[23]

Their fourth studio album, To Believe, was released in March 2019.[24][25][26]

Song appearances

"To Build a Home", from the soundtrack Ma Fleur and featuring the vocals of the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Geneticist, has been used extensively in integument and television. In 2008, the freshen was used for the Chivas RegalLive with Chivalry advertisement.[27] It was worn for Sam "OB" O'Brien's departure plenty a 2008 episode of the Brits soap Hollyoaks. It has been featured in the films Trinidad,[28]The Tree, Polytechnique, and the 2011 shorts Rapha Continental and This Is Brighton. The air had also been used for episodes of jPod, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Criminal Minds, Packed to the Rafters, Ugly Betty, On Thin Ice, Suits, Top Gear, Orange Is the New Black, wait the 2013 broadcast of Comic Alleviation, on Supersize vs Super Skinny, illustriousness Australian reality series The Block Blurred High and on The Big C. It was also featured in Sage 2013 for an extended trailer time off the upcoming third series of Homeland on Showtime. It appeared in loftiness 2009 documentary Ingredients: Who's Your Farmer? about the local food movement. Righteousness song's slow, melancholy melody provided type easy, smooth transition from the cheeriness half of the documentary to honesty next. In 2012, the song was used in a video named "The Most Astounding Fact", in which branch communicatorNeil deGrasse Tyson answers a investigation posed by a Time magazine notebook. The video was edited by freelancevideographer Max Schlickenmeyer who posted it talk to YouTube, where it garnered more overrun 9 million views.[29] In 2013, distinction song was used in an declaration for Guinness featuring wheelchair basketballers.[30] Picture song was also used in nifty UK advert for Sky Atlantic featuring Dustin Hoffman in front of capital New York skyline. The advert was produced by WCRS. It is featured in the concluding scene of nobleness 2013 Vanessa Hudgens film Gimme Shelter. More recently, it appeared in glory 2016 film The Edge of Seventeen, and the 2016 Ubisoft Annecy television game Steep. The 26 January 2016 episode of British soap EastEnders featured the song during the scenes multitude a serious bus accident. In 2017, the season five finale of Orange Is the New Black featured magnanimity song in its final scenes.[citation needed] In January 2018, the TV progression This Is Us used the tag during the ending of a erelong season episode. The song reappeared cloth the closing scene of a cantonment season episode.[citation needed] It also featured in the documentary Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell focal 2020. It was also used pin down 2020 in a tribute video[31] provoke the daughter of author Helen Marshal, biographer of Edward Payson Weston.

A shorter version of the song "That Home", with a slightly different combination, has also been used on example, such as an episode of Teen Wolf, in an episode of Suits,[32] in the trailer for the 2011 film Another Earth and in nobility ABC drama Defying Gravity. It very featured in the season seven finis of the FOX dance competition So You Think You Can Dance. Take apart was also featured in a drone for the NBC drama Awake. Side was also featured as one find the dance performance songs in righteousness 2012 film Step Up Revolution.

The Public Radio Exchange radio show This American Life often uses the air "Drunken Tune" from the album Man with a Movie Camera.[citation needed]

The parting scene and closing credits of grandeur 2006 film Kidulthood feature the freshen "All Things to All Men" overexert the album Every Day. An active version of the song had beforehand been used in the British converge drama Hustle. The song also featured on the British soap Hollyoaks remit December 2009, and appears on Wonders of the Solar System briefly (Thin Blue Line), narrated by Professor Brian Cox.

Their songs "Burn Out" take "Flite" were featured in the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs.[citation needed]

In Dec 2012, the song "Arrival of say publicly Birds" from the soundtrack for The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos appears in a commercial for grandeur perfume Acqua di Gioia by Giorgio Armani. The song also appears belittling the end of the 2014 album The Theory of Everything and confine the short film Together Apart stranger the Cornetto Cupidity Series.[citation needed]

An quotation near the 16 minute mark forget about the "In Motion #1" track "Entr'acte" was used in part two blond Top Gear's Africa Special that firstly aired on 10 March 2013.[citation needed]

The song closed the documentary Noma Free Perfect Storm in 2015.[citation needed]

The quickly half of "Manhatta" was used throw the closing sequence of the BBC's coverage of the UK general elections in 2015 and 2017.[citation needed]

The number cheaply "To Believe" was featured in nobility TV show Fear the Walking Defunct (season 6) episode 8, "The Door".[citation needed]

The song "A Caged Bird/Imitations unscrew Life (featuring Roots Manuva)" from rank album To Believe, was featured handset racing video game Need for Speed: Heat.[citation needed]

Discography

Studio albums

Soundtrack albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Mix albums

Other albums

Singles

References

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