But what of Classified?
It fuses the quartet's strings, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with bombastic percussion and Europop dance beats. It has some Middle Eastern, Latin and gypsy flavours, as well as traditional classical moments, but these are diluted in the sugary mix of synths and pop.
The liner notes attribute the songs to the group, their producers and arrangers, but the press notes list many of the songs as being "based on" classical works, such as Pachelbel's Canon, Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker, and Lunacy is said to be inspired by hardcore rapper 50 Cent's hit In da Club.
But the combination is a big hit, and there's no doubt they can play their instruments. The question is: how manufactured are they?
Are they four young, glamorous woman who just want to have fun, or a group built by music executives who are exploiting their?.
Their press release goes as far as defending accusations of ditziness with a line inspired by Czech novelist Milan Kundera: "The sense of lightness of being that surrounds Bond is the love of what they do and the freedom to do it," it says.
"No one is pushing them to wear outfits. That is who they are."
Davis says that Mel Bush helped the band get started but no longer manages them.
"We all knew each other from music college, and it started as a bit of a project on the side, because we didn't know how it was going to go," Davis says. "This manager (Bush) invested a lot of money in getting some demos together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra backing us - that wasn't something we could do on our own."
Haylie Ecker, from Perth, who plays first violin for the quartet and continues her classical career apart from Bond, says she doesn't consider their music to be classical; they just take their inspiration from classical melodies.
But it seems the classical music industry is in desperate need of a dose of sassiness - in 2001 and 2003 Bond were invited to open the Classical Brit Award, and in 2001 they performed alongside tenor Luciano Pavarotti at his annual all-star charity concert. Other recent engagements include 2003's Miss World event at London's Millennium Dome.
Davis says they are making the violin cool for kids. "When we played a show last year, one of the guys from the English Chamber Orchestra, who is a teacher, said the number of kids taking up string instruments in schools over here (in Britain) has tripled since we came out," says Davis.
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It fuses the quartet's strings, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with bombastic percussion and Europop dance beats. It has some Middle Eastern, Latin and gypsy flavours, as well as traditional classical moments, but these are diluted in the sugary mix of synths and pop.
The liner notes attribute the songs to the group, their producers and arrangers, but the press notes list many of the songs as being "based on" classical works, such as Pachelbel's Canon, Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers from Nutcracker, and Lunacy is said to be inspired by hardcore rapper 50 Cent's hit In da Club.But the combination is a big hit, and there's no doubt they can play their instruments. The question is: how manufactured are they?
Are they four young, glamorous woman who just want to have fun, or a group built by music executives who are exploiting their?.
Their press release goes as far as defending accusations of ditziness with a line inspired by Czech novelist Milan Kundera: "The sense of lightness of being that surrounds Bond is the love of what they do and the freedom to do it," it says.
"No one is pushing them to wear outfits. That is who they are."
Davis says that Mel Bush helped the band get started but no longer manages them.
"We all knew each other from music college, and it started as a bit of a project on the side, because we didn't know how it was going to go," Davis says. "This manager (Bush) invested a lot of money in getting some demos together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra backing us - that wasn't something we could do on our own."
Haylie Ecker, from Perth, who plays first violin for the quartet and continues her classical career apart from Bond, says she doesn't consider their music to be classical; they just take their inspiration from classical melodies.But it seems the classical music industry is in desperate need of a dose of sassiness - in 2001 and 2003 Bond were invited to open the Classical Brit Award, and in 2001 they performed alongside tenor Luciano Pavarotti at his annual all-star charity concert. Other recent engagements include 2003's Miss World event at London's Millennium Dome.
Davis says they are making the violin cool for kids. "When we played a show last year, one of the guys from the English Chamber Orchestra, who is a teacher, said the number of kids taking up string instruments in schools over here (in Britain) has tripled since we came out," says Davis.
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