Music from the Cube: What Am I Listening To Today?
Bond, Born Rating=$$
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How I Got This CD: Free demo from my Bordersverse daze.
Note: To stream the sample tracks, click on the thumbnail image in this post.
The good news: This is an awesome CD to have around if you're creating mixes and need a dance-fusion-world beat-classical tune to sneak into the tracks. Most of the tunes have a movie score feel to them (something that may have been deliberate)
The bad news: Listening to the entire CD with back-to-back tracks will bore you to tears. So, it makes it great background music for the cube, but not really great background music for anything else.
Oh, what's a music hound like me to do?
Well, for one thing, I'm not going to dump the CD. I've already used two tracks off this CD in two different mixes ("Alexander the Great" and "Duel"), and no doubt I'll probably use more tracks as the need arises. That said, I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.
The CD is mostly instrumental (there's some minor vocal work on some of the tracks). The stringed quartet of Bond are undeniably talented classical musicians (although classical music enthusiasts may disagree with my take), and I think the CD may be an interesting entry point to draw non-traditional or new audiences into the classical music world. Certainly, Bond has the germ of something good here, and Born is one of their older CDs. Later works might show a vast improvement over this 2000 release.
Below are some solid tracks that are worth the listen, if nothing else.
"Quixote," the first sample track, definitely has that mid-movie soundtrack feel. You know the point I mean. The part where the hero or heroine is running his or her ass off through southern Spain with the supah-sekrit payload in their backpack while all manner of bad guys (and gals) are chasing him or her to get their hands on the goods.
"Victory," the second sample track, does make me giggle. Remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" from the Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack? This is on the same, although with half the bombast and twice the disco beat.
"Kismet," the third sample, is back to that whole movie soundtrack feel. There's something Casablanca-ish (the movie, not the music) about it. I'm not sure what to make about this one. The violin work is sweet and ethereal. I could've done without the electronica, though.
"Korbushko," the final sample track, has that Russian sound that I love in my violins. Even better? No electronica. If you only download one track, this is the track to snag.
[Support the Artist]
How I Got This CD: Free demo from my Bordersverse daze.
Note: To stream the sample tracks, click on the thumbnail image in this post.
The good news: This is an awesome CD to have around if you're creating mixes and need a dance-fusion-world beat-classical tune to sneak into the tracks. Most of the tunes have a movie score feel to them (something that may have been deliberate)
The bad news: Listening to the entire CD with back-to-back tracks will bore you to tears. So, it makes it great background music for the cube, but not really great background music for anything else.
Oh, what's a music hound like me to do?
Well, for one thing, I'm not going to dump the CD. I've already used two tracks off this CD in two different mixes ("Alexander the Great" and "Duel"), and no doubt I'll probably use more tracks as the need arises. That said, I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.
The CD is mostly instrumental (there's some minor vocal work on some of the tracks). The stringed quartet of Bond are undeniably talented classical musicians (although classical music enthusiasts may disagree with my take), and I think the CD may be an interesting entry point to draw non-traditional or new audiences into the classical music world. Certainly, Bond has the germ of something good here, and Born is one of their older CDs. Later works might show a vast improvement over this 2000 release.
Below are some solid tracks that are worth the listen, if nothing else.
"Quixote," the first sample track, definitely has that mid-movie soundtrack feel. You know the point I mean. The part where the hero or heroine is running his or her ass off through southern Spain with the supah-sekrit payload in their backpack while all manner of bad guys (and gals) are chasing him or her to get their hands on the goods.
"Victory," the second sample track, does make me giggle. Remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" from the Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack? This is on the same, although with half the bombast and twice the disco beat.
"Kismet," the third sample, is back to that whole movie soundtrack feel. There's something Casablanca-ish (the movie, not the music) about it. I'm not sure what to make about this one. The violin work is sweet and ethereal. I could've done without the electronica, though.
"Korbushko," the final sample track, has that Russian sound that I love in my violins. Even better? No electronica. If you only download one track, this is the track to snag.
