Os The Cinematic Orchestra foram formados por Jason Swinscoe em 1999 e tornaram-se numa das banda Britânicas mais respeitadas dos últimos 20 anos. Embuídos de um poder emocional que transcende géneros, esgotaram o Royal Albert Hall (duas vezes) bem como a Sydney Opera House, continuando a maravilhar audiências internacionais por todo o mundo.

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It was just a matter of time before the Cinematic Orchestra received a commission for a film score, but this 2003 release actually dates from 1999. The genesis of Man With a Movie Camera lies in the selection committee of a Portuguese film festival, which asked Cinematic Orchestra to score their re-airing of Dziga Vertov's 1929 film of the same name, a silent Soviet documentary focused on a day in the life of an average worker. Performed live by the orchestra, Man With a Movie Camera doesn't allow J Swinscoe to indulge in his usual post-production magic, but it is a surprisingly adept score, with occasional bursts of on-the-one jazz-funk wailing to break it up. (Pity the poor comrade who's soundtracked 70 years later with a hyper-speed Pretty Purdie-type drum solo and some old-school-rap samples in the background.)

Scattered moments of brilliance abound, and at one point, someone on sax comes up with a brilliant foghorn recreation. The cinematic material lies in '70s astral jazz, with evocative, tremulous work from soprano sax and violin.

Man with a Movie Camera is a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra, released on 26 May 2003 on Ninja Tune. The album contains re-workings and thematic reprises of some of the music from the band's previous album, 2002's Every Day, including the track "Man with a Movie Camera" and an instrumental version of "All Things to All Men" entitled "All Things".

Man with a Movie Camera comprises the soundtrack to a re-released version of the then ground-breaking 1929 silent documentary film of the same name from Soviet director Dziga Vertov.

The Cinematic Orchestra were commissioned to record the score to play as the opening event in Porto, Portugal's year as European Capital of Culture in 2001.

The first live performance took place in the Coliseu do Porto theatre in May 2000 as part of that year's Porto Film Festival, and was met with a standing ovation from the audience of more than 3,500 people.[6] The songs have since been performed at film festivals all over the world.

In November 2002, the band, along with a string section and percussionist Milo Fell, recorded the album over a two-day period at Whitfield Street Recording Studio in London.

Lista de Faixas:

01. "The Projectionist" – 0:06
02. "Melody" – 0:20
03. "Dawn" – 4:00
04. "The Awakening of a Woman (Burnout)" – 10:20
05. "Reel Life (Evolution II)" – 6:57
06. "Postlude" – 1:45
07. "Evolution (Versao Portuense)" – 5:47
08. "Work It! (Man with the Movie Camera)" – 8:05
09. "Voyage" – 0:22
10. "Odessa" – 2:05
11. "Theme de Yoyo" – 2:20
12. "The Magician" – 2:26
13. "Theme Reprise" – 2:53
14. "Yoyo Waltz" – 1:17
15. "Drunken Tune" – 4:50
16. "The Animated Tripod" – 1:12
17. "All Things" – 6:06

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