Calling The Cinematic Orchestra a dance-music act is a stretch, but it's hard to conceive of the group's new Every Day coming into existence without the storied history of drum 'n' bass. After ...

In 2002, London-based nu-jazz collective the Cinematic Orchestra opened its second studio album on Ninja Tune (one of the two leading UK trip-hop labels of the trip-hop moment) Every Day with a ...

The “astral jazz” of the early 70s has a lot to answer for, from the would-be cosmic meanderings of latter-day drum ‘n’ bass (4hero’s Two Pages, the bulk of Good Looking Records’ output) to the tepid ...

When the nu-jazz craze faded in the early naughts, only a handful of bands popular during that era managed to hang on to success. Many of the groups that capitalized on the jazz/electronica hybrid ...

REMINDER: Two shows tonight and one tomorrow…. The Cinematic Orchestra is playing three special shows in New York City, coinciding with the release of their new live album, Live at the Royal Albert ...

Last night the Cinematic Orchestra played to a sold out El Rey crowd of instrumental enthusiasts, like myself. If you haven't heard any of their music then you have no idea what you're missing out on.

Cinematic Orchestra traverses that narrow divide between acoustic jazz and the electro-infused acid jazz of predecessors and contemporaries like St. Germain, Groove Collective and DJ Greyboy. But the ...

Five years after their last full studio record, multi-instrumentalist Jason Swinscoe’s Cinematic Orchestra return with a stylish soundtrack to an (as yet) unmade film. Unlike the late-night jazz that ...

On 1999's Motion and 2002's Every Day, producer Jason Swinscoe assembled beguiling grooves from a mixture of looped rhythms and live-band improvisation. On The Cinematic Orchestra's Ma Fleur, he goes ...