Friday

FRESH MUSIC: The Cinematic Orchestra

The Cinematic Orchestra is a beautiful collection of electronic jazz soulful music. I love their vocals and their drums. It's peaceful and quite like a rainy day. Very emotional.

The Cinematic Orchestra is a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe. The Cinematic Orchestra's sound, in both live and studio contexts, employs a live band which improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In their studio releases Swinscoe will often remix the live source material to produce a finished product that is a seamless combination of live jazz improvisation with electronica, such that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins. [READ MORE]

The Cinematic Orchestra 'Breathe' - Live At The Barbican