Man with a Movie Camera (album)

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Man with a Movie Camera

Studio album by The Cinematic Orchestra

Released

26 May 2003

Recorded

November 2002

Genre

Jazz, Electronica, Downtempo

Length

60:55

Label

Ninja Tune
ZEN78 (LP)
ZENCD078 (CD)
ZENDV078 (DVD)

Producer

The Cinematic Orchestra

Professional reviews

The Cinematic Orchestra chronology

Every Day
(2002)

Man with a Movie Camera
(2003)

Ma Fleur
(2007)

Man with a Movie Camera is a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra, released on 26 May 2003 on Ninja Tune. The album contains re-workings and thematic reprises of some of the music from their previous album, Every Day, including the tracks "Man With a Movie Camera", and an instrumental version of "All Things To All Men" entitled "All Things".

It is the soundtrack to a re-released version of the (then ground-breaking) 1929 silent documentary film, Man with a Movie Camera from Russian director Dziga Vertov. The Cinematic Orchestra were commissioned to record the score to play as the opening event in Porto, Portugal's year as European Capital of Culture in 2001.

The first live performance took place in the Coliseu do Porto theatre in May 2000 and was met with a standing ovation from the audience of more than 3,500 people. The tracks from the album have since been performed at film festivals all over the world.

In November 2002, the band, along with a string section and percussionist Milo Fell, recorded the album over a 2 day period in the soundtrack studio in Whitfield Street in London.

A DVD of the same name was released in 2003. It included the original film allied to their soundtrack, and a "making of" documentary as well as some live performances and music videos from the band.

[edit] Track listing

"The Projectionist" – 0:06
"Melody" – 0:20
"Dawn" – 4:00
"The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout)" – 10:20
"Reel Life (Evolution II)" – 6:57
"Postlude" – 1:45
"Evolution (Versao Portuense)" – 5:47
"Work It! (Man With A Movie Camera)" – 8:05
"Voyage" – 0:22
"Odessa" – 2:05
"Theme De Yoyo" – 2:20
"The Magician" – 2:26
"Theme Reprise" – 2:53
"Yoyo Waltz" – 1:17
"Drunken Tune" – 4:50
"The Animated Tripod" – 1:12
"All Things" – 6:06

[edit] Samples & Inspiration

The track 'man with the movie camera' bears strong thematic similarities to music composed by Bernard Herrmann for the film 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad'(1958), in particular the scene in which Sinbad arrivies in Bagdad.