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THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA - Ma Fleur
| IndieLondon | JASON Swinscoe – aka The Cinematic Orchestra – wrote Ma Fleur as the soundtrack to a specially commissioned screenplay for an imagined film (which may or may not yet be made, it states in the PR).
But while the idea behind it sounds artistic and borderline pretentious, I defy few people that actually properly listen to it not to find something beautiful within....full text |
| | Guardian | | The fourth album from Jason Swinscoe's shape-shifting instrumental outfit demands close attention. Despite Swinscoe's swelling supporting cast of singers and players, Ma Fleur is notable as much for what you don't hear as for what you do: a sense of space; an absence of clutter; an enrapturing hush. The opening track, To Build a Home, a grand, billowing piano ballad which could draw admiring sighs from Antony Hegarty or Chris Martin, is as immediate as it gets....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | Film Noir is a beautiful artistic medium. Very few movies, especially modern Hollywood movies, come close to seeping out such a range of emotions than Film Noir did. For anyone in doubt, seek out Laura from 1944 and compare it, as a methodical, intellectual thriller, to modern flicks. The similarities in mood, tone and raison d’etre are there, but Laura is much darker and clandestine in its underpinnings, like a solitary louse slowly developing a method of pouncing compared to a whole army engaged in guerilla attacks. ...full text |
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