专辑英文名: Ma Fleur
歌手: The Cinematic Orchestra
音乐风格: 电子
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 2007年
地区: 英国
语言: 英语
简介:
资源码率：192kbps
发行公司：Ninja Tune
专辑介绍：
来自杰出氛围/电子乐队The Cinematic Orchestra，他们的作品在采样拼贴的基础之上，融合酸性爵士，弦乐，以及TripHop的缓慢节拍，从而营造出一个游走在电影原声和前卫爵士乐之间的氛围音乐。聆听他们的作品你会明显感受到比一般普通的电影配乐更强烈的张力和感染力。人们讶异于这队玩乐器出身、痴迷录音棚方式的年轻人居然能创作出像老手们一样纯熟的作品，但又极富新意，诀窍当然还是在于技巧。队长Swinscoe首先会从采样中获得一些动机，然后把这些采样交由其他乐手重新演绎，最后再进行拚贴和处理，从而获得这种与众不同的声音，其效果介于未来派爵士乐和原声音乐之间。
试听：
To Build A Home
引用
Press Release
May 7th sees the release of the first full studio album by Jason Swinscoe's Cinematic Orchestra since 2002's "Everyday". Entitled "Ma Fleur," the record was written as the soundtrack to a specially commissioned screenplay for an imagined film (which may or may not yet be made).
Shortly after finishing "Everyday," a piece of music which achieved great critical and commercial success (selling over 100,000 units) Jason Swinscoe relocated from East London to Paris. Here he began work on the instrumentals which would form the basis of his new record - more moods than finished tracks, a series of sketches or diagrams of directions to follow. Having completed a rough version by early 2005, he gave this to a friend who disappeared for 3 weeks and came back with short story scripts in which each scene represented a story of a different time in life, expressing the emotions which underpin the journey from birth to death. Jason then took this and worked some more on the tracks, and in turn gave this back to his scriptwriter, the two aspects of the project developing alongside one another.
Gradually, Swinscoe recruited suitable vocalists for the atmospheres and themes he wanted to deal with. The remarkable Fontella Bass, who is now sadly in frail health, is the woman behind both legendary soul number "Rescue Me" as well as some of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's finest moments, had worked on "Everyday" and was an obvious choice to voice the parts of the elderly protagonist that Swinscoe envisaged. Mercury-nominated Lou Rhodes is not only a fantastic singer but a young mother and so perfect for the "mid-life" singer. The as-yet unheralded Patrick Watson, a remarkable vocalist from Montreal, became the youngest of the trio.
Swinscoe, now based in New York, then filled out the arrangments with the band and assistance from his old collaborator, bassist Phil France. As a final part of the process, renowned New York photographer Maya Hayuk was commissioned to take 11 pictures to represent each of the scenes/tracks. These pictures, scenes where the characters are missing or abstracted or metaphoric, would once again feed back into world of the soundtrack for a missing film. These images relate to individual moments and the overall at the same time, "leaving the spaces as empty as possible was paramount" so the viewer/listener can fill them, finish them or re interpret them as they see fit.
Dealing with themes of loss and love - and in itself representing a kind of absence - "Ma Fleur" is fertile ground for Swinscoe's brand of music-making, for while people have talked about what he does in terms of jazz, the truth is that the basis of his music has always been in raw emotion. From the achingly beautiful opener "To Build A Home" to the finale, "Time And Space," this is an album which reaches for and finds a truth and honesty far beyond what we would normally expect from such a record, but without losing any of the accessibility which made TCO popular in the first place. If the mood is melancholy, Swinscoe and the musicians he works with manage to make it an ultimately uplifting experience, perhaps in the end more about the love you find than the love you lose…
The Cinematic Orchestra will be bringing their acclaimed liveshow to international venues from April.
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UK PRINT PRESS QUOTES so far…
“Soul Power at its deepest and most profound. Capable of real wonder.” Mojo 4/5
“A raw and overwhelming surge of soul. Deeply moving.” Mojo
“Big themes, universal emotions and a thumping great climax. Has a real stoner-grandeur to it.” Independent on Sunday 4/5
“An Immensely moving, utterly distinct night-time world which is a pleasure to inhabit… Demands close attention.” Guardian 4/5
“Achieves a rare kind of poise, hovering between jazz, soul and orchestral soundtrack. They have never sounded so convincing than on this.” Q
“Remarkable album.” 4/5 Uncut
“Stunning.” Daily Express 4/5
“Lush, leftfield, Genius.” Mixmag 4/5
“A Completelyunique and staggeringly atmospheric album.” Music Week
“Something Special.” Observer Music Monthly 4/5 – A Top 10 Album
“You’d be very fortunate to hear another record this incredible this year.” Word
“Even more heart-rendingly beautiful than 2002’s Everyday.” BBC Collective – Album of Week 5/5
“The Cinematic Orchestra move closer towards a plain occupied by no other. Honest and pure. Jason Swinscoe’s compositions stun with their originality.” Blues and Soul
“Third exceptional longplayer from filmic jazz renegades.” DJ 4/5
“A singular vision that produces stunning results.” The Sun 4/5
“Their richest confection yet. Sounds that really speak volumes.” Metro
“There’s much to enjoy. Particularly the appealing overall mood of cool, elegant melancholy, and Fontella Bass’s moving performance on “Breathe.” Independent Magazine 4/5
“Manages to touch the ethereal, ineffable parts that lesser acts just cannot reach.” iDJ Recommended Album 5/5
“If Autumn leaves could sing, this is how they’d sound.” Swell
“Sit back, close your eyes and let the musical poetry of this extraordinary talented collective wash over you and resonante with your soul. Pure, uncomplicated, spiritual music of a rare quality and grace.” One Week To Live 7/7
“It seems this this Orchestra can do no wrong.” 360 4/5
“Ma Fleur is a majestic visceral experience.” Straight No Chaser
“The Cinematic Orchestras jazz-folk- soul is a growing thing. The stuff of life.” Swell Cover feature
“Gorgeous.” Drowned in Sound 8/10
“The prefect Sunday afternoon album.” Zoo 4/5
“This could be one of your albums of 2007.” Future Music 8/10
“Hauntingly beautiful.” City AM
