Friday music blogging: The Cinematic Orchestra 3

Of late, I have become obsessed with the soundtrack to a French Disney nature film that, as far as I can tell, hasn’t come out yet. I don’t know if it will ever come out in the states. It’s called Les Ailes pourpres: le mystère des flamants, which a little bit of online translation tells me means Crimson Wings: the mystery of the flamingos. Here’s the trailer:

The soundtrack is done by The Cinematic Orchestra, a band I’ve loved for a while. Kind of difficult to describe them. They’re composed of a bunch of individual artists from the Ninja Tunes label and they play avant jazz with elements of electronica. Gawd that sounds so painful and pretentious though. They really are good—check out their 2007 album Ma Fleur.

Anyhoo, for this movie they seem to have ditched both the jazz and the electronic stuff and gone for a very traditional-sounding orchestral soundtrack. It’s not the kind of thing I’d typically find myself listening to, but nonetheless, it’s been my go-to chill-out album for weeks now.

I can’t seem to find it for sale anywhere, but it is available online via a number of, ahem, less reputable avenues.

This song is called “Transformation.”

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