Cinematic Orchestra's Jason Swinscoe talks ahead of Birmingham O2 Institute show
They are the anti-Prince; a band whose music visits our lives almost as often as Halley's Comet.
Music doesn't pour from Cinematic Orchestra. It oozes almost imperceptibly. It emanates as quickly as an oak tree grows.
And it's all the more beautiful for that.
A band that works as slowly as Cinematic Orchestra eliminates errors.
The band was created in 1999 by Jason Swinscoe and it's been nine years since their breakthrough record, Ma Fleur. Though the record wasn't a huge hit – it stalled at No73 – it became universally popular.
Featuring in a Schweppes Lemonade advert called Burst and in the Australian-French film The Tree, it became ubiquitous by stealth.
Cinematic Orchestra became purveyors of music that everybody knew – even though only a few knew of the band themselves. To Build A Home for example, taken from Ma Fleur, has been streamed more than 60 million times.
