In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes former DJ Food member PC (Patrick Carpenter) on turntables, Luke Flowers on drums, Tom Chant on saxophone, Nick Ramm on piano, Stuart McCallum on guitar, Phil France on double bass.

Swinscoe first formed a group called Crabladder in 1990, whilst studying Fine Art at Cardiff College,[4] releasing one official single on his own Power Tools label.

The Cinematic Orchestra recorded the soundtrack to the Disneynature film The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos,[15] released in France in December 2008 (originally as Les ailes pourpres: Le mystère des flamants).

[22] In 2015, they created their own version of Melanie De Biasio's track "I'm Gonna Leave You" for the album Gilles Peterson presents - No Deal Remixed.

[24][25][26] "To Build a Home", from the album Ma Fleur and featuring the vocals of the Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, has been used extensively in film and television.

The song had also been used for episodes of jPod, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Criminal Minds, Packed to the Rafters, Ugly Betty, On Thin Ice, Suits, Top Gear, Orange Is the New Black, on the 2013 broadcast of Comic Relief, on Supersize vs Super Skinny, the Australian reality series The Block Sky High and on The Big C. It was also featured in August 2013 for an extended trailer of the upcoming third series of Homeland on Showtime.

In 2012, the song was used in a video named "The Most Astounding Fact", in which science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson answers a question posed by a Time magazine reader.

The video was edited by freelance videographer Max Schlickenmeyer who posted it to YouTube, where it garnered more than 9 million views.

[citation needed] The final scene and closing credits of the 2006 film Kidulthood feature the song "All Things to All Men" from the album Every Day.

The song also featured on the British soap Hollyoaks in December 2009, and appears on Wonders of the Solar System briefly (Thin Blue Line), narrated by Professor Brian Cox.

[citation needed] In December 2012, the song "Arrival of the Birds" from the soundtrack for The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos appears in a commercial for the perfume Acqua di Gioia by Giorgio Armani.

[citation needed] An excerpt near the 16 minute mark of the "In Motion #1" track "Entr'acte" was used in part two of Top Gear's Africa Special that originally aired on 10 March 2013.

[citation needed] The song "To Believe" was featured in the TV show Fear the Walking Dead (season 6) episode 8, "The Door".