Classified [Bonus Track] [Japan] [IMPORT]

Bond (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B0001N1LZE
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #536,135 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Explosive

2. Scorchio

3. Midnight Garden

4. Lullaby

5. Samba

6. Hungarian

7. I'll Fly Away

8. Dream Star

9. Highly Strung

10. Adagio For Strings

11. Senorita

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Bond is a string quartet made up of four good-looking women, two from Australia, one from Wales, one from Great Britain. Their training is in purely classical music, which this CD certainly is not. Their previous CD was banned from the UK classical charts, presumably because of the overly insistent use of beats and other intrusions, and this CD too contains African, electro, Latin and hip-hop beats. Bond will be the first to acknowledge that they're heavily influenced by the club scene and pop culture from London to Bangkok. Here they are joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the sound is enormous: there's level upon level of overdubbing. Some of the tracks have, as their basis, classical works: Pachelbel's Canon, snippets of Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Carmen's Habanera, Brahms' Hungarian Dance no. 5, Barber's Adagio for Stings. But the sound we get is lush, beat-heavy, club-ish, full of excitement and basic rhythms, and the "classical" connection--aside from the melodies from the above-mentioned pieces--must be taken on faith. The women's solo playing, if there is any, is not audible. The over-riding feel is disco; this is for dancing and for creating a mood of excitement. --Robert Levine

Product Description

Japanese edition of the classical crossover act's 2004 release is scheduled to include one exclusive bonus track, 'Sugar Plum'. Universal.