Bond - Shine
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Track List: Shine
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- AllegrettoDownload & Buy
- ShineDownload & Buy
- FuegoDownload & Buy
- Strange ParadiseDownload & Buy
- SpeedDownload & Buy
- Big Love AdagioDownload & Buy
- KashmirDownload & Buy
- Gypsy RhapsodyDownload & Buy
- LibertangoDownload & Buy
- SaharaDownload & Buy
- RideDownload & Buy
- SpaceDownload & Buy
- Bond On BondDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Shine
- Release Date:
- 10/15/2002
- Label:
- Decca
- UPC:
- 028947050025
User Reviews: Shine
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Bond Shine
, November 11, 2002Reviewer: mikemeisman - See all mikemeisman's reviews -
!!!The Attack of The Bond!!!
, November 2, 2002Reviewer: Gorby D - See all Gorby D's reviews1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this Shine review helpful AMAZING, FABULOUS, REMARKABLE, MARVELOUS......... Nothing can discribe the Bond New Album..... Shine So if you wan't to know what does it look like. Go shut down your computer, change your clothes, go to the nearest cd and cassette seller, than ask them to give you bond new album SHINE. than listen it. The different of their music make them more popular. So what are you waiting for ..... Just Buy That CD!!!!!!!!!!
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Pro Reviews: Shine
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews A sort of cross between Sex and the City and the Kronos Quartet as they might be remixed by Paul Oakenfold (actually Orion and the Beatmasters do most of the producing), Bond is a string quartet of toothsome beauties at least as concerned with their hair and makeup as their playing whose work on Shine is heavily augmented with dance beats. It's a formula that sits them atop the classical crossover charts, up there with Sarah Brightman and Josh Groban, and why not? As with their peers, the music is only ersatz classical, containing classical tunes here and there mixed in with classical-sounding new compositions. And the elaborate dance programming makes the music highly, well, programmable. Leadoff track "Allegretto" was quickly tapped for an upscale television commercial, a mark of success in this market previously achieved by the likes of Moby. Here and there among the oddly familiar melodies are actually identifiable ones. "Strange Paradise" is a much modified version of the same theme from Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances" in his opera +Prince Igor that became the show tune and pop hit "Stranger in Paradise" from the musical +Kismet; "Kashmir" is the Led Zeppelin song; "Libertango" comes from Astor Piazzolla; the bonus track, "Bond on Bond," is, inevitably, Monty Norman's James Bond movie theme; and "Space" sounds like the theme from every movie ever set in a Middle Eastern desert (although here it sounds like it comes from a Middle Eastern disco). The CD booklet, full of fashion-style photography, outdoes anything from Britney Spears, and, of course, there's nary a musical instrument in sight. The music may be the least of it, but as marketing, Bond is hard to fault. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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The U.K.'s Bond were hailed the Spice Girls of classical music, but Eos (violin), Haylie Ecker (violin), Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cello), and Tania Davis (viola) composed a vibrant worldbeat sound all their own. All are well-educated, having played their ...Full Bond Biography
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The album opens with Allegretto. A wonderful piece that when you hear it you will fondly remember it (you have heard it before but never knew from where it came).
Then comes the title song Shine. This song just begs you to go out and dance till you can't walk any more. My wife and I almost immediately got up from listening and started dancing like we haven't done in years.
Next, Fuego. This is my favorite. It begins with what sounds like Moroccan then fly's off into a classical piece that brings images of life, love, and conflict into the mind. What a story.
The song Strange Paradise comes in with a gentile soft concordance and works into a gorgeous smooth arrangement that will make you wish that you had not danced so hard during Shine. Thankfully this song is slower and you can continue to move.
Speed starts slow, but hang on. This has the driving bass line and beat of an almost a metal song. In an audio system that can reproduce immense low frequencies this song will have the furniture bouncing.
The song Big Love Adago will move you to the brink of tears as you will feel the openness of the solitude from the original composition.
Kashmir. Can you say Led Zeppelin. I never thought I would hear a descent (let alone this outstanding) performance of this metal classic. If you close your eyes you can almost hear Mr. Plant.
This is followed by Gypsy Rhapsody probably the most technical performance on the album. Haylie and Eos really allow their violinistic (is this a new word) talents to come front and center.
The next gem is Libertongo. This is a perfect place in the CD to continue the little slow down on pace. (I am still catching my breath.) The smooth transfer allows their listener to pay close attention to what is happening in the background. The subtle changes are welcome to the ears.
Sahara. Very Mideast. This takes me back to time spent in Morocco and various locations in India. (God now I need Orange spiced chicken on couscous.)
Ride is exactly that, a RIDE. Don't drive while playing this one. The pace will absolutely put you in the ticket zone. Fabulous instrumental selections with a marvelous back beat that will make you think techno.
Now sit back and get enveloped in Space. I suggest sitting in a darkened room with no other sounds. Turn up the volume and be taken away. This is amazingly hypnotic.
The bonus song, Bond on Bond is exactly what you would expect from these women who should be on the 007 poster.
I realize that I have a lot written here but I am enamored with this album. The songs are a mixture of all standard music formats in a new and dramatic setting. I am calling this Fusion Classical. I have been a classical fan for all my life and now I can share it with all my rock n roll friends. I won't even start on what I think of their first album, Born.
Thanks for reading.
Michael Meisman
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