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ONE WAY Recommends [Issue
#13] The Section Quartet By
Lynne Bronstein
No Electricity Required
(CD
Qulestreet Productions)
Here’s something different for jaded rockers: a genuine string quartet that plays rock songs - and doesn’t sound like elevator music. With appearances on late-night TV, and as accompanists for the likes of Sam Phillips and Wilco, The Section Quartet have a growing following on the LA club circuit. And now they finally have an album of their own. No Electricity Required emphasizes the Quartet’s taste for heavy metal and alt-rock, genres that lend themselves well to the classical strings treatment. The Quartet have found the link between classical modalities and the power chords in songs like KISS’s “Detroit Rock City,” Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love,” and Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused.” Violins replicate the wailing of Jimmy Page’s guitar, and the cello provides the heavy bass on “Sunshine.” Even Queens of the Stone Age’s “No One Knows” acquires a tension worthy of Bartók. Radiohead’s “Just” and “No Surprises” are tailor-made for strings, but the arrangements fortunately avoid the cloying quality that in the past has made symphonic rock a joke. All kidding aside, this is a great album for music lovers with open minds.
