Horizon

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More slick neo-soul to light up your nights. Horizon highlights the benevolent timing of Niara Scartlett's vocal chords, "Your beauty shines with in/ you know your soul shines with in," so get out there and have fun. This school of get up and be glad to be your self is the big message that that the Orchestra is smoothly depositing into our ears. "Horizon," moves with little to make it different from other ventures in dance-floor soul, but it's still in the top of the pack with the likes of Nightmares on Wax, etc. "Oregon," is a great sax soliloquy conjuring the moments of a cinematic protagonist walking some empty streets after the plot has climaxed. It has a Moondog feel in it's empty sad sax tones, but like most Cinematic Orchestra pieces, it's real influence comes from the empty moments in a film's score. "Evolution," here remixed by Mr. P is a vehicle for Fontella Bass' return to grace. A prolific soul singer, Bass has changed from dissing her contemporaries like a battle MC in the seventies to a more romantic and friendly incarnation. She's lost a little of her fight, but with age she's just become a little more enchanted with the world. Some electro voices and a little keyboard underly a movement from a symphonic e.p. to complement Fontella's rendition. All in all, Cinematic here begin their bid for commercial play with sweet sounds that all can enjoy.