Jason Swinscoe and his musical partner Dominic Smith, the braintrust behind the jazz-inspired electronic project The Cinematic Orchestra, didn’t intend to take the better part of 12 years to release ...

A perfect piece of instrumental music can totally transform my mood so much more than a pop song. In the case of a track like The Cinematic Orchestra‘s “Manhatta”, it whisks me away to a lovely, far ...

Calling The Cinematic Orchestra a dance-music act is a stretch, but it's hard to conceive of the group's new Every Day coming into existence without the storied history of drum 'n' bass. After ...

The world is simply a better place with The Cinematic Orchestra making music. It’s been 12 years since the group – formed in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe, and completed by longtime partner Dominic Smith – ...

Cinematic Orchestra traverses that narrow divide between acoustic jazz and the electro-infused acid jazz of predecessors and contemporaries like St. Germain, Groove Collective and DJ Greyboy. But the ...

After a 12-year hiatus, several trans-continental moves, and various literally cinematic projects, the founders of The Cinematic Orchestra (Jason Swinscoe & Dominic Smith) felt compelled to reconvene ...

Without expounding beyond than a pure and direct statement of identity, the Cinematic Orchestra distinguishes itself by a fixation on the relationship between image and sound, and specifically how ...

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In 2002, London-based nu-jazz collective the Cinematic Orchestra opened its second studio album on Ninja Tune (one of the two leading UK trip-hop labels of the trip-hop moment) Every Day with a ...

When the nu-jazz craze faded in the early naughts, only a handful of bands popular during that era managed to hang on to success. Many of the groups that capitalized on the jazz/electronica hybrid ...

Five years after their last full studio record, multi-instrumentalist Jason Swinscoe’s Cinematic Orchestra return with a stylish soundtrack to an (as yet) unmade film. Unlike the late-night jazz that ...