''Cinema'' is the fifth studio album of eclectic Australian band,

The Cat Empire The Cat Empire are an Australian jazz/funk band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1999. For most of the band's duration, the core members were Felix Riebl (lead vocals, percussion), Harry James Angus (trumpet, vocals), Will Hull-Brown (drums), ...

. It was released in Australia on 25 June 2010 by

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and débuted at No. 3 on the

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. The work was co-produced by Steve Schram with the group.

Background

's fifth studio album, ''Cinema'', was issued on 25 June 2010 by

in Australia. It was followed by releases in Canada, United States, and then Europe. It was co-produced by Steve Schram and the group. According to the band's lead vocalist and percussionist, elix Riebl its title was due to the content, which "is very cinematic, simply put ... Another way to describe it is that it is like a soundtrack to a movie that we might make one day. When

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and I were sitting around and trying to come up with a title we thought that the name we eventually chose would suit the atmosphere". ''Cinema'' débuted at number three on the

. The track, "Beyond All", was featured on national radio station,

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's ''New Music with Richard Kingsmill'' in April. The lead single, "Feeling's Gone", had been released in May ahead of the album. A promotional copy of ''Cinema'' had been leaked to eBay about three weeks before its due date and sold for $200; EMI provided a statement regarding the leak. To promote the album the group undertook a tour on North America in July followed by a national tour in August and September.

Track listing

Personnel

;The Cat Empire core members * Harry James Angus –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Will Hull-Brown – drums * Jamshid Khadiwhala –

turntables A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...

hand percussion Hand percussion is a percussion instrument that is held in the hand. They can be made from wood, metal or plastic, bottles stops and are usually shaken, scraped, or tapped with fingers or a stick. It includes all instruments that are not drums o ...

* Ollie McGill –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, keyboards * Ryan Monro –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Felix Riebl – lead vocals, congas, percussion, piano ;The Empire Horns (auxiliary members) * Kieran Conrau –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

* Ross Irwin – trumpet * Phil Noy – baritone saxophone (tracks 3, 7, 9), soprano saxophone (track 5) ;Recording details * Produced by – Steve Schram, The Cat Empire * Mixing – Steve Schram * Engineering – Steve Schram ** Assistant engineering – Gareth "Grif" Burnell, Anna Webster, Mick Rafferty * Mastered by – Ross Cockle * Studio – Sing Sing Studios (engineering, mastering); Bangkok Ninja Academy (mixing)

Charts

References

External links

The Cat Empire official website
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