Amazon.co.uk Review Jason Swinscoe and co have finally released Man with the Movie Camera, the spellbinding work that inspired their sophomore album. First performed back in 1999 at the Porto European City of Culture 2000 celebrations, Man with a Movie Camera was written as a live accompaniment to Dziga Vertov's beguiling silent film of the same name, a fascinating Soviet documentary shot in 1929. Finally then, a Cinematic Orchestra album worthy of their name and a truly mesmerising mix of traditional jazz and funk-tinged modernity it is too. Owners of Every Day will recognise "Evolution" and "Work It (Man with the Movie Camera)" which appear here in their original form. Suitably atmospheric and evocative, the use of everything from delicate piano phrases to scratching combine to make this highly textured soundscape an aural delight that seamlessly shifts from epic to intimate. With the simultaneous DVD release featuring Vertov's enchanting and deceptively modern imagery of idealised Soviet life in the 1920s, Man with a Movie Camera is a labour of love that's it's all too easy to be wholeheartedly seduced by. Undoubtedly one of 2003's finest albums and arguably Swinscoe's strongest yet. --Christopher Barrett