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And that's before you come to lectures from the likes of Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. Or Muhammed Ali in the ring. Now think of a band who live to perform live. Beyond Jason Swinscoe's scintillating recordings the Cinematic Orchestra's ability to reinvent their mate Beyond Jason Swinscoe's scintillating recordings the Cinematic Orchestra's ability to reinvent their material in the live arena has always made them stand out from their peers.

Last spring saw the release of latest album 'Ma Fleur' and saw the band's most intense touring schedule to date. More and more requests for live recordings and more and more sell out shows.

So when it came to the end of the year and a return to the city from where the band was first realised, the question was "Where?

Where can you do the kind of show which will do celebrate a history and at the same time create something new? In the end there was only one place…. On November 2nd , Jason Swinscoe brought an enhanced line-up of the Cinematic Orchestra, incorporating the 24 piece Heritage Orchestra to this amazing venue and played a show to a sold-out crowd of more than people. But otherwise, Swinscoe has the unfortunate preference for full-blast divas. You know, the type where merely singing "How near?

Swinscoe has unsurprisingly gone on record saying how each of their songs is supposed to accompany an unwritten movie, but the vocal numbers tend to be both slight and overbearing; a film with this much telegraphed emotion would be impossible to stomach for even the most chick-flick hardened.

Not that it's ever unpleasant on record, but goddamn-- doesn't this make you feel old? Used to be this sort of thing trip-hop or not was meant to accompany druggy sex or sexy drugs, or at the very least, some sort of noir danger or last-call malaise.

At this point, it's the new soundtrack to cocktail hour, and everyone's the designated driver. Skip to content Search query All Results. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes.

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Familiar Ground.