The Cinematic Orchestra is a British

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music group created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe. The group is signed to

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. The Cinematic Orchestra have produced four studio albums, ''

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'' (1999), '' Every Day'' (2002), ''

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'' (2007) and ''

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'' (2019), and two film soundtrack albums, ''

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'' (2003) and '' The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos'' (2009). In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes former

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member PC (Patrick Carpenter) on

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, Luke Flowers on

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, Tom Chant on

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, Nick Ramm on

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, Stuart McCallum on

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, and Phil France on

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. Former members include Jamie Coleman (

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), T. Daniel Howard (drums),

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(drums), Alex James (

), and Clean Sadness (

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, programming). Swinscoe and Carpenter have also recorded together under the band name Neptune.

Style

The Cinematic Orchestra's sound, in both live and

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contexts, employs a live band which improvises along with a

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and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In their studio releases Swinscoe will often

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the live source material to produce a combination of live jazz

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with

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, such that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins.

History

Swinscoe first formed a group called ''Crabladder'' in 1990, whilst studying

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at Cardiff College, releasing one official single on his own ''Power Tools'' label. In 1994, Swinscoe was given a DJ spot on

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. The Cinematic Orchestra's debut album, ''

,'' was released in 1999. The critical success of that album led to them being asked to perform at the Director's Guild Awards ceremony for the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to film director

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. The band were asked by the organisers of the

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European City of Culture 2001 festival to write a new score to

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's classic 1929

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film ''

,'' to be performed live in accompaniment with a showing of the

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. The work differed from the band's usual compositions due to its live performance, ruling out the post production work that was present on ''Motion.'' The Cinematic Orchestra toured the work and later released it as an album. Many of the compositions originally created for that album, ''

,'' were later adapted from live form (adding in vocal tracks and electronic elements, among other changes) for their next album, '' Every Day''. It reached #54 in the

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in May 2002. In 2006, The Cinematic Orchestra created a cover version of

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's "

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" that appeared on an album titled '' Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads.'' In this piece the band slowed down the tempo of the original, divided the timbre into four sections beginning with saxophone, to the classical guitar, to the electric guitar, ending the piece with the same simple acoustic guitar rhythm as the original. The Cinematic Orchestra released the album ''

'' in May 2007. Several songs feature Patrick Watson,

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on vocals, with Rhodes and Watson sharing vocals on one song. The Cinematic Orchestra recorded the soundtrack to the

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film '' The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos,'' released in France in December 2008 (originally as ''Les ailes pourpres: Le mystère des flamants).'' The score was produced by the band and Steve McLaughlin. The score was performed live with the

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in September 2009 and won the award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Film at the

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, USA in October 2009.

invited The Cinematic Orchestra to perform at the twentieth anniversary gala performance of the label at the

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in November 2010. In 2011, The Cinematic Orchestra commissioned a series of compositions for avant-garde short films that were performed at the

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under the auspices of its curating a series entitled "In Motion" (also featuring

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with saxophonist Tom Chant, Grey Reverend, and

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). It subsequently released the album '' In Motion #1'' in 2012. In 2015 they created their own version of

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presents - No Deal Remixed''. Their fourth studio album, ''

,'' was released in March 2019.

Song appearances

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", from the album ''Ma Fleur'' and featuring the vocals of the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, has been used extensively in film and television. In 2008, the song was used for the

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''Live with Chivalry'' advertisement. It was used for Sam "OB" O'Brien's departure in a 2008 episode of the British soap ''

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''. It has been featured in the films ''

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'', '' The Tree'', " Polytechnique", and the 2011 shorts ''Rapha Continental'' and ''This Is Brighton''. The song had also been used for episodes of ''

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'', '' Friday Night Lights'', ''

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'', ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''

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'', '' On Thin Ice'', ''Suits'', ''

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, on the 2013 broadcast of Comic Relief, on '' Supersize vs Super Skinny'', the Australian reality series ''The Block Sky High'' and on '' The Big C''. It was also featured in August 2013 for an extended trailer of the upcoming third series of ''

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. It appeared in the 2009 documentary ''Ingredients: Who's Your Farmer?'' about the local food movement. The song's slow, melancholy melody provided an easy, smooth transition from the first half of the documentary to the next. In 2012 the song was used in a video named "The Most Astounding Fact", in which

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reader. The video was edited by

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Max Schlickenmeyer who posted it to

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, where it garnered more than 9 million views. In 2013, the song was used in an advertisement for

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featuring wheelchair basketballers. The song was also used in a UK advert for

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featuring

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in front of a New York skyline. The advert was produced by WCRS. It is featured in the concluding scene of the 2013

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''. More recently, it appeared in the 2016 film ''

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'', and the 2016 Ubisoft Annecy video game '' Steep''. The 26 January 2016 episode of British soap ''

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'' featured the song during the scenes following a serious bus accident. In 2017, the season five finale of ''

'' featured the song in its final scenes. In January 2018, the TV series ''

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'' used the song during the ending of a second season episode. The song reappeared during the closing scene of a fourth season episode. It also featured in the documentary ''Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A

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Farewell'' in 2020. It was also used in 2020 in a tribute video by the daughter of author Helen Harris, biographer of Edward Payson Weston. A shorter version of the song "That Home", with a slightly different composition, has also been used on occasion, such as an episode of ''

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'', in an episode of '' Suits'', in the trailer for the 2011 Sundance award-winning film ''

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drama '' Defying Gravity''. It also featured in the seventh-season finale of the

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''. It was also featured in a trailer for the NBC drama ''Awake''. Most recently it was featured as one of the dance performance songs in the 2012 motion picture '' Step Up Revolution''. The

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radio show ''

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'' often uses The Cinematic Orchestra song "Drunken Tune" from the album ''

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'' feature the song " All Things To All Men" from the album '' Every Day''. An instrumental version of the song had previously been used in the British television drama '' Hustle''. The song also featured on the British soap ''

'' in December 2009, and appears on ''

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'' briefly (''Thin Blue Line''), narrated by Professor Brian Cox. Their songs "Burn Out" and "Flite" was featured in the 2012 video game '' Sleeping Dogs''. In December 2012, the song "Arrival of the Birds" from the soundtrack for '' The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos'' appears in a commercial for the women's perfume Acqua di Gioia by

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. The song also appears at the end of the 2014 film '' The Theory of Everything'' and in the short film Together Apart from the Cornetto Cupidity Series. An excerpt near the 16 minute mark of the "In Motion #1" track "Entr'acte" was used in part two of ''

's Africa Special'' that originally aired on 10 March 2013. The song closed the documentary ''

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'' in 2015. The second half of Manhatta was used in the closing sequence of the BBC's coverage of the

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in 2015 and 2017. The song "To Believe" was featured in the TV show ''

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'' episode 8, "The Door". The song "A Caged Bird/Imitations of Life (featuring

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)" from the album ''To Believe'', was featured in racing video game '' Need for Speed: Heat''.

Discography

Studio albums

Soundtrack albums

Live albums

Remix albums

Mix albums

Other albums

Singles

References

External links

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