The Cinematic Orchestra (Jason Swincoe) follows up the moody To Build A Home with a single from his forthcoming album Ma Fleur, which was apparently conceived as a soundtrack to a film as yet unmade and conceivably non-existant, although the notes speak of Swincoe and a friend working on a screenplay together before scoring it. There are stranger ways to create a concept album.
Breathe employs the vocal talents of veteran singer Fontella Bass, best known for Rescue Me and her husband Lester Bowie's Art Ensemble of Chicago. Her gospel-tinged vocal lilts over a slow guitar melody, enticingly reedy in places with age, as she describes a slow, sweet song that "carries me out to sea and swallows me into the deep".
As with several other Cinematic Orchestra tracks, Breathe starts quiet and plain, and gradually builds to a crescendo, returning to the simpler refrain to round the piece off.
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