ARTIST : Cinematic Orchestra
TITLE : Live At The Royal Albert Hall
LABEL : Ninja Tube
GENRE : Lo-Fi
BITRATE : 181 kbps avg
SOURCE : CD (LP)
PLAYTIME : 01:07:38
SIZE : 92.8MB
STORE DATE : 2008-03
Track List
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1. All That You Give 5:15
2. Child Song 7:37
3. Flute 5:55
4. Familiar Ground 8:34
5. To Build A Home 7:46
6. Prelude 3:04
7. Breathe 6:02
8. Ode To The Big Sea 14:44
9. Time And Space 8:41
The Royal Albert Hall is the kind of venue where history
is made. The Beatles and the Rollings Stones played a
double bill here, legendary performances have been given
from Pink Floyd to Frank Sinatra, Led Zep to Bob Dylan.
And that's before you come to lectures from the likes of
Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. Or Muhammed Ali in
the ring. Now think of a band who live to perform live.
Beyond Jason Swinscoe's scintillating recordings the
Cinematic Orchestra's ability to reinvent their material
in the live arena has always made them stand out from
their peers.
Last spring saw the release of latest album "Ma Fleur"
and 2007 saw the band's most intense touring schedule to
date. More and more requests for live recordings and more
and more sell out shows. So when it came to the end of
the year and a return to the city from where the band was
first realised, the question was "Where? Where can you do
the kind of show which will do celebrate a history and at
the same time create something new?ö The band had always
wanted a chance to develop into the Orchestra of their
name, but they needed the kind of venue with the
flexibility, the acoustics and the sheer scale to make it
work. In the end there was only one placeà
On November 2nd 2007, Jason Swinscoe brought an enhanced
line-up of the Cinematic Orchestra, incorporating the 24
piece Heritage Orchestra to this amazing venue and played
a show to a sold-out crowd of more than 4000 people. With
over 40 musicians onstage at times, Swinscoe and his
colleagues used the show as a unique opportunity to open
out his chamber pieces into intense, beautiful and
exquisitely realised epics which left the huge audience
baying for more.
Featuring vocal contributions from Heidi Vogel, Lou
Rhodes (formerly of Lamb) and Grey Reverend, plus the
return of original member PC on turntables, an intense,
beautiful night is captured here in all it's glory.
History as it's lived, human emotion, love and rapture.
You can feel it in the hairs on the back of your neckà