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Jun. 18th, 2003 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbWorking on the press kit last night made me late for the Cinematic Orchestra show, which makes me an idiot. It's nice for once to be a hard-working and dedicated idiot, though.
The reviews I've read of the Cinematic Orchestra's excellent second album mostly go like this: "There's this electronica guy, but he has some people play live instruments on the record! Weird, huh?" Exactly like that.
I don't know much about electronica, but in concert, the C.O. are indisputably a band. They're in the lineage of the electric Miles Davis groups--the closest comparison among bands I've seen is Groove Collective. The lineup last night, give or take some musical chairs, was drums, electric bass, keyboards (jazzy and pianistic, mostly on what I think was a Fender Rhodes), saxophone, voice, turntables, and the actual guy in charge, who pushed buttons I couldn't see and rattled a tambourine.
Uh, I thought I had some smart stuff to say about how tight the rhythm section was and stuff, but maybe not. It was just really great. If you like this sort of thing, they're heading up the west coast and then across Canada, plus a stop in New York where they'll be playing their live score for the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera. Wish I could see it.
The reviews I've read of the Cinematic Orchestra's excellent second album mostly go like this: "There's this electronica guy, but he has some people play live instruments on the record! Weird, huh?" Exactly like that.
I don't know much about electronica, but in concert, the C.O. are indisputably a band. They're in the lineage of the electric Miles Davis groups--the closest comparison among bands I've seen is Groove Collective. The lineup last night, give or take some musical chairs, was drums, electric bass, keyboards (jazzy and pianistic, mostly on what I think was a Fender Rhodes), saxophone, voice, turntables, and the actual guy in charge, who pushed buttons I couldn't see and rattled a tambourine.
Uh, I thought I had some smart stuff to say about how tight the rhythm section was and stuff, but maybe not. It was just really great. If you like this sort of thing, they're heading up the west coast and then across Canada, plus a stop in New York where they'll be playing their live score for the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera. Wish I could see it.
