> Ninjatune has given the latest details about the XX box-set. Besides the earlier announced One Good Thing (The Cinematic Orchestra's New York Quartet Version), you will also find 'Familiar Ground' (Solid Steel version), probably featuring some great solos by Tom Chant on sax.
The release has been added to the remixes & exclusives discography.

> Also something to do with the Ninjatune birthday: you can download 2 unreleased tracks by The Cinematic Orchestra at http://www.ninjatunexx.com: Time & Space + Brother/The Revolution. These tracks were once played on a Solid Steel radio show in 2002. Some of them showed the very start of what would later become the Ma Fleur album. You have 6 days left to download them, so hurry!

> Some extra info to the samples page has been added about about samples used in these tracks: Evolution II, Man with the Movie Camera and Durian.

> Live gallery 2010: added some pictures from the Italian and Belgian concert from this summer.

> Ninja Tune announced the tracklisting for the Ninja Tune XX box-set featuring 6 cd's and 6 7" records. Two new and exclusive tracks by The Cinematic Orchestra are announced: one track title is to be confirmed, the other is the Cinematic Orchestra version of the Lou Rhode's track 'One Good Thing'. Lou announced this track some time ago on Facebook.
The release has been added to the remixes & exclusives discography.

> On the must have page you can find information about the new Haggis Horns album 'Keep on movin' featuring Luke Flowers on drums.

> Live gallery 2010: added some pictures from the Italian concert, with the new band membres.

> You can download for free the new track Lilac Wine at http://50.drmartens.com/artists/cinematic-orchestra. Enjoy the video + the making of at the home page.

> Added to the musicians page: Ivo Neame (piano) and Richard Spaven (drums), who will be playing some concerts with the band this summer. Luke Flowers is touring with Corinne Bailey Rae this summer.

> During the autumn the band will perform at some of the Ninja Tune XX concerts. Very interesting are the concerts in Paris (Centre Pompidou, with Lou Rhodes) and London (Royal Albert Hall, feat. TBA Ninja Tune artists). More news about those concerts soon.

> A very interesting quote from Lou Rhodes about working with The Cinematic Orchestra:
Working with Jay on Ma Fleur was, I guess, the beginning of our creative association although our paths had crossed over the years. I found him really wonderful to work with; quietly intuitive. We went on to work together for the song in his score for Crimson Wing. I think if the experience of working with him helped to inspire One Good Thing it was perhaps in the stillness of some of the songs on Ma Fleur and the depth that seemed to exude from between the words.
Signing with Motion Audio was a bit of magical, eleventh hour serendipity. I'd started to plan the album and was gonna bring it out in partnership with a distribution company I'd been talking to and then I had this phone conversation with Jay and he's asking what I'm up to. I knew he was setting up a label but thought it was more of a vehicle for his own production projects rather than the eclectic stable it looks set to be. So things just fell into place.

> Some older news: To Build a Home was used in the tralier for the movie Bright Start (directed by Jane Campion). This is an instrumental and somewhat different version. See the youtube-trailer:

> Live gallery 2010 started, with some pictures from the Dr. Martens recording session.

> Added to the must haves: JD73's Zeros + Ones and The Haggis Horns' Hot Damn! both featuring Luke Flowers on drums.

> Another release... the long awaited Late Night Tales compilation is available. This album was added to the mix pages some time ago. The digital release features also most of the original songs, on the cd you find only the mixes/edits made by J. Swinscoe.

> A new track is to be released soon: to celebrate their 50th Anniversary, the shoe brand Dr Martens asked 10 artists to record their version of a cult classic track which represents the spirit of the people who've worn DM's over the past 50 years. They also asked 10 directors to make videos for each of the tracks. Tracks and videos will be released during 2010.
The project features The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Heidi Vogel who have recorded Lilac Wine (written by James Shelton, based on the version by Jeff Buckley), the video has been made by BL:ND (www.blind.com). Released date for this track is June 21st. The track will be available for free at http://50.drmartens.com/artists/cinematic-orchestra.
There you can also find pictures from the recording session (at Maverick Studios, NYC.during Dec 2009). Other musicians featured are: Austin Peralta (piano) and Antoine Silverman, Maxim Moston, David Creswell and Anja Wood (strings). The musicians page has been updated with these names. This 'release' is added to the exclusives page.

> On Austin Peralta's site he mentiones a forthcoming release, titled Endless Planets, featuring The Cinematic Orchestra. To be released soon on Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder.

> Some new live dates have been added: festivals in Turky (May), Italy (June) and Belgium (July). Check last.fm for information.

> Added to the must haves is Bonobo's Black Sands featuring Tom Chant on saxophone.

Couple of small updates:

> The English spoken dvd for The Crimson Wing movie has been released. It features some extra sounds and music than the cd. There's also a small 5 min documentary, added as a bonus, with a Q&A with J Swinscoe and Phil France. This release is added to the discography.
The French spoken dvd should be released somewhere in June.

> Lou Rhodes announced a Cinematic Orchestra remix for one of the tracks from her new album. To become available on a new single soon. In the meantime the full album has been released with two weeks of delay, due to a bigger demand than expected.

> The Cinematic Orchestra will perform at the Soundwave Festival in Croatia.

> Also you can add this page to your RSS-reader. Just select this link:

Couple of small updates:

> Added extra information about the new Lou Rhodes album on the must have-page: cover, tracklisting, etc.
Talking about teaming up with the label from The Cinematic Orchestra, this is what she has to say: "It all happened very quickly because it felt like the right thing to do; I believe that life shows you the way quite a lot of the time."
More information about this record? Have a look at the small documentary made by motion Audio records:

> At the home page you can see the trailer for the upcoming Late Night Tales compilation!

A short update with some sad news:

> On January 1st of this year singer songwriter Lhasa de Sela died after a long illness.
The last couple of years she worked regularly with Patrick Watson and she was credited as co-writer of The Cinematic Orchestra-track 'Breathe' featuring vocals by Fontella Bass. They probably wrote the lyrics together.
We will miss her music and voice very much.

> Some live pictures from the last concerts from 2009 (Roundhouse London and Brazil concert) have been added to the 2009 live gallery.

A new decade and without a doubt an important start to this decade for The Cinematic Orchestra

> The band are working on their 4th album. No release date yet, but work has started

> In March we will see the first cd-release from the Motion Audio label by Lou Rhodes. After that we should see more albums this year by Phil France and Grey Reverend.

> And the latest news is that the Late Night Tales compilation will finally be released. Released date is now April 5th! You can find a complete tracklisting and the cover at the mix-cd's discography!
Some lines from the press release:
The long awaited chapter from The Cinematic Orchestra greets us with style. With track selection and order seeing many revisions since the inception of the project, we arrive in 2010 with one of the most defined Late Night Tales yet to come in the 23 title strong series. Not for nothing are they called The Cinematic Orchestra. Jason Swinscoe has been living and breathing soundtracks for many a year (the last one was his epic effort for Disney, ‘The Crimson Wing’).
The Cinematic Orchestra are now on their fourth original album and third country, having relocated to New York after spending spells in the UK and France and these days can be found in Fort Greene, a vibey Brooklyn neighbourhood with a grand musical heritage. You can hear some of these influences seep out, gently washing your way. Eddie Gale, whose obscure jazz classic ‘The Rain’ is featured here, was also a native of Fort Greene.
Swinscoe’s affection for the double bass, here provided by Danny Thompson, is clearly evident on Nick Drake’s ‘Three Hours’. The marvellous Shuggie Otis also makes an appearance with the musically stunning and grammatically interesting ‘Aht Uh Mi Hed’, while Sebastien Tellier’s ‘La Ritournelle’, already regarded as a modern classic, doffs its cap in the direction of Mr. Swinscoe. The compilation would not be complete without some soundtrack content - Burt Bacharach’s ‘South American Getaway’ from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, appears in a heavily re-edited form, while the strangely familiar ‘Electric Counterpoint’ by Steve Reich drops the temperature a tad.
This being Late Night Tales we could not depart without a venerated (and exclusive) cover version produced by the boys. The Cinematics’ offer up ‘Talking About Freedom’, originally sung by Fontella Bass with whom they have worked extensively. A little nod in deference to Fontella, there; a nice touch. Concluding the album, Will Self continues his spoken word short story ‘The Happy Detective’, now onto the third part.

Wishing you all a Cinematic Orchestra-like 2010!