Motion (The Cinematic Orchestra album)

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Motion (The Cinematic Orchestra album) - Wikipedia

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Motion

Studio album by

The Cinematic Orchestra

Released

27 September 1999

Genre

Electronic, downtempo, trip hop

Length

51:09

Label

Ninja Tune
ZEN45 (LP)
ZENCD045 (CD)
ZENCD45X (Japan CD)

The Cinematic Orchestra chronology

Motion
(1999)

Remixes 1998-2000
(2000)

Motion is the debut album by the Cinematic Orchestra, released on 27 September 1999 on Ninja Tune. The album's concept came from core band member, Jason Swinscoe, who had amassed various samples - drum patterns, basslines and melody samples - that had inspired and influenced him. He then presented them to a group of musicians to learn and then improvise around. The resulting draft tracks were then re-mixed on computer by Swinscoe to create the finished album.^[1]

In 2012, it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe.^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	(6.7/10)^[3]

Stanton Swihart, writing for AllMusic, stated:

...the songs on Motion are by turns eerie, lush, edgy, expansive, gritty, intensely powerful, and gorgeous. Sometimes an album comes along that forces you to reconfigure and re-evaluate all of the assumptions you had previously made about music in order to realize how vast and endless the possibilities are; this is one of those albums.

Additionally, the album's success led to the band being asked to perform at the 1999 Director's Guild Awards ceremony for the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to film director Stanley Kubrick.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks written and produced by Jason Swinscoe, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Durian" (written and produced by Jason Swinscoe and Eva Katzenmaier)	7:00
2.	"Ode to the Big Sea"	5:42
3.	"Night of the Iguana"	13:21
4.	"Channel 1 Suite"	5:50
5.	"BlueBirds"	5:06
6.	"And Relax!"	4:55
7.	"Diabolus"	9:15
8.	"Channel 1 Suite (Hefner mix)" (Japanese version bonus track)	4:41
9.	"Ode to the Big Sea (Four Tet mix)" (Japanese version bonus track)	7:30

Personnel

Jason Swinscoe - producer
Tom Chant - soprano sax, alto sax, acoustic piano, electric piano
Jamie Coleman - flugelhorn, trumpet
Phil France - acoustic bass, electric bass
T. Daniel Howard - drums
Eva Katzenmaier - producer
Alex James – acoustic piano, electric piano (Now music teacher at Rochester Independent College)
Saidi Kanba - percussions

References

^ ^a ^b Allmusic review
^ "Impala Sales Award-Preisträger 2012". vut. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
^ Pitchfork Media review
^ Joshua Ostroff (June 2002). "The Cinematic Orchestra...Score!". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2013-08-10.

External links

v t e The Cinematic Orchestra
Jason Swinscoe Phil France Luke Flowers Tom Chant Nick Ramm Stuart McCallum
Studio albums	Motion Every Day Man with a Movie Camera Ma Fleur To Believe
Live albums	Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Remix albums	Remixes 98–2000
Soundtrack albums	The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
Compilation albums	Late Night Tales: The Cinematic Orchestra
Songs	"All Things to All Men" "To Build a Home"

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