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Deviations Project sets out to woo the listener with a fusion of chilled out electronica and organic violin playing. Luckily for the listener, this effort extends well beyond the purview of mere novelty. Admittedly, the hearer is at first sucked in by exactly that – the novelty. Here is classical instrumentation working with post-modern musical style – and it is catchy. But where some attempts at a thing such as this would never make it past the novelty effect and might not pull the listener back for a second go round, Deviations Project ably moves quickly from hooking you in with the strings/electronica combo to securing your attention with wonderfully arranged and masterfully performed revamps of classical and modern classics. There are also a handful of originals. Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Paganini, Saint-Saens and Bach get reworked in this new and delicious format. More contemporary folks such as Mike Oldfield (represented here by a reworking of “Tubular Bell”), the wonderful Jean Michel Jarre and famed film composer John Williams find themselves emerging from an interpretive chrysalis, as well. “Axel F,” made famous by “Beverly Hills Cop” even pops up here in a new version called “Frogger” (a reference to the fad of Crazy Frog videos, one of which featured an electronic dance rendition of “Axel F”). Deviations Project is an exciting and important release. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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