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The Cinematic Orchestra | Motion

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Tekst: Christiaan

Publicatiedatum: 22 november 1999

Where do you think of when you hear the name The Cinematic Orchestra? A music studio with a big screen on which a movie is projected, a director in front of a full orchestra directing the music played by the new Star Wars movie? Maybe you do, but the members of The Cinematic Orchestra don't. A band formed around Jason Swinscoe having 6 members in total is all you need to make moody 60's/70's jazz sounds based on sampled loops, real instruments and sampled vocals. The album Motion, not really surprisingly released by Codcut's label Ninja Tune, is all about moody jazz sounds. It's full of jazzy drumbreaks, big jazz chords, strings, basses, vocals (mostly to make a mood, not really lyrics-based), brass and so on.
The first song on the album, Durian, is a typical first song of an album which describes the path the album is going to make. A looped drumbreak and bassline are the basis of the song together with continuous jazz chords played on piano. On top you find a saxophone player, strings, vocals.. in total it's a song to fall in love with until the song suddenly changes into some sort of a jam-session and the sax starts playing weird effects and a Rhodes piano makes his appearance.
The Cinematic Orchestra seems kind of predictable because they use a lot of jazz standards, but are actually sometimes unpredictable through their other non-jazz influences like modern sample-based music. For instance the song Channel 1 Suite, also released as a 12", starts with a kind of Portishead sound, although you can't compare them to each other. This song has more a modern flow with a steady beat and changes into a massive song with some equalized female vocal samples, great drumbreaks, even a glockenspiel and weird samples.
All the songs are independent on itself, but the album makes a whole. It's like a compilation of songs made for non-existing movies played by one extraordinary orchestra.
If you go and listen to this album at your local recordstore, try to make up your own movie on each song and you'll see that there is more than just music on this album.

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