The Cinematic Orchestra – Presents In Motion # 1

Motion Audio / Ninja Tune
2012

“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.” – Stanley Kubrick

Jason Swinscoe of The Cinematic Orchestra has long been intrigued by the link between vision and sound. From TCO’s re-soundtracking of Man With A Movie Camera, through his “soundtrack to an imaginary film,” Ma Fleur, to his band’s name itself, Swinscoe has continued to pick away at the issues and emotions found at this intersection. With In Motion #1 he continues this process by inviting some of his favourite musicians and producers to provide soundtracks to or musical re-imaginings of seminal work by great avant-garde film-makers.

Responding to visuals which run from René Clair’s surrealist classic “Entr’acte” (The Cinematic Orchestra) right up to Peter Tscherkassky’s “Outer Space” (Dorian Concept & Tom Chant), the musicians wrote for and worked with a string quartet to create music of remarkable emotional reach. The results are so vivid, so complex yet immediate, that they can be enjoyed as freestanding pieces in their own right.

The first of a series of releases curated by Jason Swinscoe for Motion Audio, the artists involved run from LA-based pianist Austin Peralta, through the Grey Reverend in New York, to Dorian Concept in Austria and Tom Chant and the other members of TCO in London.

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Lovecraft’s Aunts – The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward

Discordian Records
2012

Luiz Espiga: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Agustí Martínez: Alto Sax
Albert Cirera: Tenor Sax on 1, 2 and 4
Tom Chant: Tenor Sax on 3 and 5
Don Malfon: Baritone Sax
Pere Masafret: Trombone
Miguel Serna: Double Bass
Vasco Trilla: Drums

All music composed and conducted by El Pricto

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Sin Anestesia – Sin Anestesia En Directo!

Discordian Records
2011

Tom Chant: Soprano Sax (L)
Liba Villvecchia: Soprano Sax (R)
Agusti Martinez: Alto Sax (L)
El Pricto: Alto Sax (R)
Pep Pascual: Tenor Sax (L)
Miguel “Pintxo” Villar: Tenor Sax (R)
Lluis Valles: Baritone Sax (L)
Don Malfon: Baritone Sax (R)
Ferran Besalduch: Bass Sax (C)

Recorded live on October 27 of 2011, at LEM Festival Barcelona, Spain

Composed, conducted, recorded and mixed by El Pricto

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Sin Anestesia – Intervención Mecánica

Discordian Records
2011

Tom Chant: Soprano Sax
Xavier Díaz Herrera: Soprano and Baritone Sax
Liba Villavecchia: Alto and Sopranino Sax
Agustí Martínez: Alto Sax
Albert Cirera: Tenor Sax
Pep Pascual: Tenor Sax
Don Malfon: Baritone Sax
Lluís Valles: Baritone Sax
Ferrán Besalduch: Bass Sax
El Pricto: Alto Sax/Conductor

“Encrucijada/Metadoloris” or “Metadoloris Ultra” and the beginning of “Interrupción” composed by El Pricto.

Everything else was improvised with or without Prictic conducting.

Recorded by El Pricto and Jo Miramontes on June 26 of 2011 at
Discordian Records, Barcelona.

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IED8 – Live at 23 Robadors

Audition Records
2010

IED8 (Improvised Explosive Device Octet) is an aggressive cell full of contrasts and provocation that fills an important stylistic gap in the jazz and improvised music scene in Barcelona with explorations of the savage and the free. Formed mostly by members of the Banda d’Improvisadors of Barcelona – BIB.

This octet was born with the idea of investigating both the possibilities of the instrument and of musical form. For this purpose, IED8 have committed to working in several directions: first, conduction and (sometimes spontaneous) composition and second, free improvisation with influences from free jazz, contemporary music and noise.

The result is fed by the different backgrounds of IED8′s members, such as the contemporary jazz provided by Dani Domínguez and Albert Cirera, post rock from the hand of Javier Garcia (ex12twelve), Pablo Rega’s experience in conduction (conducter of BIB and OMEGA Orchestra) and the free improvisation of Tom Chant (Decentred, Marseille Figs) an active member of the London’s scene.

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IED8 | IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE OCTET:

Olga Àbalos (alto saxophone & transverse flute)
Tom Chant (soprano & tenor saxophone, & bass clarinet)
Albert Cirera (tenor & soprano saxophone)
Alfonso Muñoz (baritone saxophone)
Pope (trumpet)
Pablo Rega (electric guitar)
Javier García (double bass)
Daniel Domínguez (drums)

Recorded by Pablo Rega at Robadors 23, Barcelona, on March 25, 2010
Picture by Martín Ruano. Design by Aniana Heras

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