Live at the Royal Albert Hall [Import]

Cinematic Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 18, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B0013YJIE6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,187,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The Cinematic Orchestra have toured all over the world, headlined festivals and they even played the music at a party for Stanley Kubrick. On November 2nd 2007, Jason Swinscoe brought an enhanced line-up of the Cinematic Orchestra, incorporating the 24 piece Heritage Orchestra to the Royal Albert Hall and they played a show to a sold-out crowd of more than 4000 people. With over 40 musicians onstage at times, and 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. Ninja Tune. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, complex, deep NU JAZZ, September 5, 2008

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M. Harris (South FLorida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Audio CD)

This has to be in my opinion the record of the year, the talent and melding of voices from Heidi Vogel and Eska Mtungwazi and Patrick Watson give credence to a hauntingly beautiful and rare melange of talent that is captured in this recording.

I never write reviews but I was so moved by this music that I had to research the band.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars actual orchestra changes the sound a bit, July 3, 2011

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D. Waldman (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live At The Royal Albert Hall (MP3 Download)

This is a good album, some may even think great. I personally found that I prefer the more intimate sound I'm used to with Cinematic Orchestra- the presence of actual orchestral backing changes the sound, and even the general tone/mood. The lonely vibrato of the electric pianos sounds a little less dirty (for example) when accompanied by orchestral chimes.

It's a taste thing though, and you may very well like this album as much as their other stuff. I still think "Man With a Movie Camera" is their high water mark.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Immaculate live recording..., August 12, 2009

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Thomas Gabuzda "Songs for Dancing Bear" (Montco PA, usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Audio CD)

I find several of the tracks on this live cd profoundly emotional and moving even after numerous listens. The people who engineered the technical aspects of this recording should get multiple Grammies for how astonishingly clean and vivid the acoustics are... particularly the large string section. The only arguable downside is that there are too many down tempo songs, which creates redundancy and melancholy. However the bluesy female vocalist is unbelievably good, the male vocalist on the folksy tune "To Build a Home" (which at first I felt did not belong, but came to truly enjoy) is superb, and the instrumentals are excellent --particularly the drumming and acoustic bass which are both brilliant and brilliantly recorded. The standout tracks are, first and foremost "Time and Space" on which the string section is just hauntingly beautiful; "Man with the Movie Camera"; and "All that You Give". Upon later reflection I should have given this 5 stars and just accepted the excess of ballads and down tempo songs.