26/10/2012

HOW TO ROCK A CELLO


There’s probably nothing completely new on the horizon, as everyone’s already used to electric strings. Still, these tow Croatian-Slovenian guys, 2Cellos, do know how to make a good rock sound with a classical instrument.

Yes! Discover after uploading a video to Youtube with their personal rearrangement of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal (it’s featured also in Glee), they published their first album about one year ago. There they play some classical pop-rock hits, like U2’s With Or Without You or Colplay’s Viva LaVida. Not only! They even made a cover of Muse’s Resistance and a really really outstanding version of Smells Like Teen Spirit






To my great surprise I was immediately captured, as I had always thought that the only one who could make justice to Nirvana’s masterpiece was my personal goddess Patti Smith!
Well, I was wrong.
No Led Zeppelin songs in the album, but I don’t miss them, as Escala and my beloved Bond already made their covers of Kashmir. Instead, we have Guns’n’Roses, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pulp Fiction.

This energetic duo deserves at list one listen, I think.  Sometimes I even find myself thinking they’re playing guitars instead of cellos. And somehow they remind me of  the electric violinist Linzi Stoppard. God, she’s gorgeous!

2cellos’ new work, In2ition, is going to be released in January 2013. Hope it’ll be as rock as their debut album. But the first solo track seems to fulfill my expectations.








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