Bond - Born

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• BOND BORN

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

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!

Description of Born

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