Win Cinematic Orchestra DVDs

Band names are often obscure, confusing or completely meaningless, but you know where you are with The Cinematic Orchestra. Jason Swinscoe’s laudable live/electronic collective have worked across various wings of the movie business, from performing at a Stanley Kubrick award ceremony in the late 1990s to providing the score to recent Disney nature film The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos.

It’s a good decade since the Orchestra were commissioned to provide new music for the groundbreaking 1929 Russian silent movie Man With A Movie Camera, initially for a live performance at Porto’s European City of Culture celebrations, and they’ve been playing it at regular intervals ever since. The latest recital also kicks off their new live event, In Motion, which is one of the more original bashes we’ve come across.

Each edition will be dedicated to the performance of new music for old films, performing two new re-scores at the launch; for Entr’acte (1924), a Dada-influenced twenty-minute short featuring Erik Satie and Man Ray; and Manhatta (1921), an eleven- minute documentary made by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.

That first event takes place just as this issue drops - Nov 6th, at London’s Roundhouse - but more are planned, and to celebrate they’ve reissued their DVD of, due to popular demand. It comes complete with the new Cinematic Orchestra score, and we have three copies to give away.

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