Monday’s Tune: The Cinematic Orchestra

The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With The Movie camera
The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With The Movie camera

Its seems that Monday’s Tune has become a bi-weekly event, instead of every week. I will try to return to normality soon…

Today’s featured tune is by one of my favourite team of musicians, The Cinematic Orchestra, a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe.

Today’s track is called “Man With The Movie Camera”, from the 2002 album Every Day, released by Ninja Tune [independent record label]. The song was later reworked and was part of a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra to a re-released version of the 1929 silent documentary film, Man with a Movie Camera, by Russian director Dziga Vertov.

About the band members, In addition to Swinscoe [from Wikipedia]:

the band includes former DJ Food member Patrick Carpenter on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), and Alex James (piano). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.

The following video is an edited version of Vertov’s film, released as a music video for the song:

Enjoy!