Motion (The Cinematic Orchestra album)

Motion
Studio album by The Cinematic Orchestra
Released 27 September 1999
Genre Electronica, 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 LP 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]

Critical reaction

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (6.7/10)[2]

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.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Durian" – 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

The Japanese version of the album included two additional tracks:

  1. Channel 1 Suite (Hefner mix) – 4:41
  2. Ode To The Big Sea (Four Tet mix) – 7:30

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  3. ↑ Joshua Ostroff (June 2002). "The Cinematic Orchestra...Score!". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2013-08-10.

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