Name: Ma Fleur
Brand: The Cinematic Orchestra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ZENCD122

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-05-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ZEN122HC

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Double 140g Vinyl. Three Bonus Tracks From the Time - Never on Vinyl. Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 4 Art Cards.

2021-07-30

5054429148725

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

The Cinematic Orchestra

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Ninja Tune

The Cinematic Orchestra's classic 2007 album <i>Ma Fleur.</i> At the time the album was recognised for its bold departure from the group’s sonic traditions. In the years since, it’s been continuously celebrated, with tracks like ‘To Build A Home’ reaching huge audiences with over half a billion streams to date. 

Dealing with themes of loss and love - and in itself representing a kind of absence - <i>Ma Fleur </i>is fertile ground for Swinscoe and long term collaborator Dominic Smith's brand of music-making, for while people rightly have talked about what they do in terms of jazz, the truth is that the basis of their music has always also been in raw emotion. From the achingly beautiful opener "To Build A Home" to the finale, "Time And Space," this is an album which reaches for and finds a truth and honesty far beyond what we would normally expect from such a record, but without losing any of the accessibility which made the band popular in the first place. If the mood is melancholy, The Cinematic Orchestra manage to make it an ultimately uplifting experience, perhaps in the end more about the love you find than the love you lose… 

Ma Fleur

Music GB