As the principal collaborator alongside Jason Swinscoe in the Cinematic Orchestra, Phil France is responsible for some of the most heartrendingly beautiful music created in recent times. Co-writing, arranging and producing on the Cinematic Orchestra albums including Everyday, Man With The Movie Camera, Ma Fleur and also the triple award winning soundtrack for The Crimson Wing nature documentary, Frances skills have always extended beyond his bass-lines
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Now living in Manchester, he initially made the move back to his native Yorkshire a couple of years ago after some time in London, where he set to work teaching himself the finer detailsof programming and began work onThe Swimmer. Deeply emotive and epic in scale, it drawsit's influences from the great second wave of film composers including John Carpenter andVangelis, as well as minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
France's skill, in this album, as well as his work with The Cinematic Orchestra, is in soundtracking human emotion - it is full of heartbreak and recovery, strength, honesty and frailty, it is meditative and hopeful.
4 Star reviews in Mojo, Q, Q oline, Louder Than War, Music OMH, Uncut, Loud & Quiet, Crack.
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"The Swimmer is sweetly captivating and suggestive of Mogwai without the noise or the very best of the Windham Hill label' ( Mojo )