This is a fantastic CD! I first heard East Village Opera Company yesterday during my commute home on our public radio station. They were being interviewed on the Global Hit segment of The World. Sometimes you hear something and you know - this is it. That is how they hit me - I was bowled over. During errands last night I picked up their CD at my favorite BullMoose store and played it immediately. Even my 14 year old was impressed and had me play the first cut - Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro - over and over again. Incorporated in this redux is an organ part from "Won't get fooled Again" by Peter Townsend. It sends the senses soaring.
From their MySpace music site:
"The East Village Opera Company —a powerhouse five-piece band, a string quartet, and two outstanding vocalists—brings the towering emotion and timeless musicality of opera into the 21st century on its Decca/Universal Classics debut with its inventive, hard-hitting arrangements of the music’s “greatest hits”—including “La donna รจ mobile” from Rigoletto, “Habanera” from Carmen, and “Nessun dorma” from Turandot — performed at full length and in the original languages.
The concept of the East Village Opera Company is totally fresh, but not unprecedented in pop. In 1985, for example, former punk-rock impresario Malcolm McLaren released Fans, an album of “hip-hopera” that brought funky beats and electronic programming to the works of Puccini and Bizet. But EVOC is a whole new thing: an integrated, eleven-strong working band dedicated to rocking the opera and electrifying the classics, as the ensemble has been doing to spectacular effect ever since its New York stage debut in the spring of 2004."
Check out a short video here.
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