Born

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Born
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Artist: Bond
Composer: Eos (violinist)
Composer: Magnus Fiennes
Composer: Tonci Huljic
Composer: Gil Nevo Yoad / Brown
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Conductor: Brian Gascoigne
Conductor: Julian Kershaw
Performer: Gay-Yee Westerhoff
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Music Label: Decca
Product features:
  • BOND BORN
Soundtracks:
  1. Quixote
  2. Winter
  3. Victory
  4. Oceanic
  5. Kismet
  6. Korobushko
  7. Alexander The Great
  8. Duel
  9. Bella Donna
  10. The 1812
  11. Dalalai
  12. Hymn
  13. Victory (Mike Batt Mix)

Music reviews of Born

Music Review: I'm Born again with Bond! Thanks, ladies!
Rating: 5 Stars

A review of Bond's Born in A+ major

Allegro con brio (150 BPM)

Bond provide the missing link between techno and classical music. The difference between this and albums like the Never Mind The Beethoven compilation is that Bond's album is techno-classical. The other is classical-techno. Get it? Got it? Good.

The techno blast and the way the form a backbeat to the strings is simply outstanding and amazing, especially in "Quixote", and the lovely and danceable "Winter."

Both the original version of the vivacious "Victory" and the truncated Mike Batt remix serve as breath of much needed fresh air. It was seeing the video for this song, the novelty of their sound, and the impish smile of one of the girls that led me to buy Born.

Gay-Yee has a noteworthy cello solo in the middle of the epic "Oceanic." I'm not sure what the original tune to this was, but the way she and her comrades do this fantasy-like tune is sweet. "Kismet" is done in the same vein.

Andante (175 BPM)

Go! "Alexander The Great" is a majestic 2:59 burst of strings and techno, whose energy and brief running time parallels the all-too brief life of the Macedonian warlord who conquered the known world at that time.

The violin, presumably Haylie, and Tania on the viola are the stars of "Duel." The melodic Eos-composed "Bella Donna" leads into their own take on Tchaikovsky's "The 1812," complete with the crash boom bam of the kettle drum/cannon finale. I'm not sure that Piotr Ilyich foresaw electric guitar and techno synthesizers as part of his overture. Wonder what he would think.

Scherzo (200 BPM)

"Dalalai" opens with an electric sitar, and has vague influences of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "Hymn" is an soothing elegiac tune that should be played while one is relaxing in a patio chair sipping tea or lemonade, looking at the tranquil back garden.

Second violinist Eos' quote in her profile coincides with me: "I love music that pushes boundaries..." Bond's music does just that, as she further affirms. Having played before the Queen and several Heads of States in her native Australia, she impresses me the most. Wait! I'm impressed with the others too!

In her profile in Born's album sleeve, violist Tania Davis explains who this album is for: "Bond will appeal to people who would normally be intimidated by a classical concert." In other words, people who are put off by the black tie and tails, high art image of classical music. However, I wouldn't recommend Bond to white trash either. But getting back to Tania's statement, here are four talented ladies wearing summer dresses, tank tops, and jeans. Now if that isn't a more welcoming and disarming image, what is? Well, actually, Bond did try that, but their Puritan album company, Decca, nixed a nude cover of them, so...

Finale (250 BPM)

Unfortunately, the bourgeois, snobbish, nose-in-the-air and up-their-you-know-what neophytes do not count this as classical. What's more, they were snubbed by the British Classical Awards earlier this spring. So, is Bond classical? Heck yes! What about the techno in there? Who cares? Just put on your T-shirt, shorts, whatever, lose the penguin suits, and get ready for with Bond, strings, shaken and stirred, and sassy! You are invited!

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Description of Born

14 tracks on the CD includes the bonus track 'Viva' plus the bonus AVCD featuring 7 videos - 'Victory', 'Wintersun', 'Viva' (Asian tour edition), Bond profile, 'Viva' (Del Mix-audio only), 'Viva' (Del Underground-audio only) & 'Korobushka' (live from Royal Albert Hall-audio only). The video part of AVCD is playable on all systems (code 0). Housed in a slipcase. 2002.
Born, the debut album by four conservatory-trained young women, has little to do with classical music. It's a gimmick, fusing a string quartet of frivolous femmes, spicy girls who all want to be "Posh," with dance beats, a big production mixing their violins, viola, and cello with polished electronics. Taking themselves less than seriously--they played the James Bond theme at their Royal Albert Hall debut--pop "Victory" looks assured. This single bounces along with a dash of Rossini's Barber of Seville and a real sense of pop melodrama, in spirit little different from what guitarist John Williams did with his rather less photogenic band Sky in the late 1970s. What may surprise is that tracks such as the frenetic world-dance "Quixote" are penned by the film composer Magnus Fiennes, brother of the more famous Ralph and Joseph. "Winter" adds Jean Michel Jarre-style synth and voice-over to the ghost of Vivaldi and the infectious beat goes on, and on, and on. Sex sells, and Bond's success seems assured. This is a state-of-the-art product, but with a bonus remix of "Victory" by Mike Batt of Wombles fame, just don't expect it to be art. --Gary S. Dalkin

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