s w e e t b e a t s
june.06.2004 - #1258
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artist : The Cinematic Orchestra
album : Man With A Movie Camera
year : 2003
label : Ninja Tune
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : ZENDV78
url : www.ninjatune.net
quality : DVD lame VBR 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
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01.Man With A Movie Camera 63:10
(A new soundtrack to the 1929 classic by Dziga Vertov):
- The Projectionist
- Melody
- Dawn
- The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout)
- Reel Life (Evolution II)
- Postlude
- Evolution (Versao Portuense)
- Work It! (Man With The Movie Camera)
- Voyage
- Odessa
- Theme De Yo-yo
- The Magician
- Theme Reprise
- Yoyo Walts
- Drunken Tune
- The Animated Tripod
- All Things
02.From Reel To Real (Documentary/Interview with J Swinscoe) 08:16
03.All That You Give (Promo Video-Super 8 Version) 04:30
04.Man With The Movie Camera (Live at Cargo, London) 16:09
05.Theme De Yo-Yo (Live at Cargo, London) 11:41
06.Man With A Movie Camera 09:14
(Video Edited Version by Eva Katzenmeier)
06 tracks | 113:00 mins | 145,6 MB
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So hereÆs a question for you û what do Soviet avant garde movies
have in common with cutting edge UK dance music. Stuck? The answer
is ôThe Man With The Movie Cameraö and The Cinematic Orchestra.
J SwinscoeÆs TCO have been described as ôclassy and cerebral, but
atmospheric and soulful tooö (NME). They are one of the few bands
of the last few years to successfully fuse contemporary studio
production techniques with fantastic live playing, their take on
jazz and film soundtracks fused together with a thoroughly modern
sampler-generation attitude. And in their notional leader, J
Swinscoe, they have a man who is as concerned with how sound looks,
so to speak, as with how it sounds...
In late 1999, Swinscoe was asked by the organisers of the Porto
European City of Culture 2000 if the band wanted to score a
soundtrack to a silent movie to open the celebrations. It seemed a
perfect opportunity to expand the ideas of TCO into the world which
had given them their name. But the difference was this was for a
one off live performance. The film was Dziga Vertov's "Man With A
Movie Camera," a 1929 early documentary cinema film from the Soviet
Union (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0019760). The performance in a
old theatre space in Porto ended with a standing ovation of 3,500
people. Since that evening TCO have performed the score live at
film festivals from Turkey to Scotland.
But the work also had a formative influence on the album that was
to become "Every Day". Certain tracks that made it on to the album
were written specifically for the score, but more than that it made
Swinscoe and the band think in terms of combining sounds and
textures and unfolding narratives over a period of time using those
sounds. In particular, the title 'Every Day' was based on the
narrative in the film, which portrays a day in the life of an
idealised Soviet society, starting fom people waking up in the
morning, moving through various work place ideas, then into leisure
time and then back into the cinema...
Now Ninja Tune are proud to present the "Man With A Movie Camera"
DVD. Featuring the entire film soundtracked live in the studio by
The Cinematic Orchestra, plus a short documentary about the making
of the record (first aired on C4), the superb video to ôAll That
You Giveö (featuring Fontella Bass) and further extras, itÆs a
great package. And not just for Cinematics fans or scholars of 30s
documentaries, either! --ninjatune.net
Bonus info:
dvd to ac3 : smartripper
ac3 to wav : besweet (default settings)
wav normalization : sound forge (average rms power, normalize peak
value to 0db)
wav to mp3 : eac (lame)
main title was cropped at the beginning, removing 3 mins of silence.
--sb
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