Lara Goodridge (violin & vocals) Tim Hollo (viola & vocals) Shenton GregoryakaShenzo Gregorio (viola and vocals) Peter Hollo (cello & vocals)
Influences
matador, tzadik, ato records, sub pop, folk, electronica, rock, post rock, avant garde, albert ayler, albert marcoeur, jan garbarek, aphex twin, brian eno, can, cat power, the clouds, four tet, the books, danny elfman, john zorn, kronos quartet, miles davis, nick drake, nusrat fateh ali khan, massive attack, pj harvey, portishead, thelonious monk, tom waits, depeche mode, joni mitchell, john martyn, prince, cocteau twins, the gorillaz, radiohead, jeff buckley, elvis, the jacksons, stevie wonder, ned's atomic dustbin, the cure... etc etc
Sounds Like
Nothing you've ever heard before! Inspired by a wide array of diverse music such as dub, klezmer, electronica, post-rock, improv and avant-garde. FourPlay's repertoire includes arrangements of The Beastie Boys, Radiohad, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Clouds, Depeche Mode, Sinead O'Connor, The Strokes and Metallica together with a dash of contemporary classical music and a whole repertoire of original music which touch on all these influences.
FourPlay String Quartet LIVE on ABC's Sunday Arts playing their originan piece Now To The Future
FourPlay String Quartet LIVE on ABC TV's "Spicks & Specks" playing Sabotage by The Beastie Boys FourPlay String Quartet doing "Look What They've Done To My Song" on ABC TV's Spicks & Specks
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Press Quotes
"More Metallica than Mozart. The first string quartet to have inspired moshing and crowd surfing" — The Sydney Morning Herald
"Forget anything you ever thought about string quartets. This is the future." — Michael Smith, Drum Media
"The next phase in the evolution of the string quartet is here." — The Music Network
"There's no escaping the fact that FourPlay have as much attitude in their playing as Jet, AC/DC or Coldplay..."
— Iain Shedden, The Australian
The Bio
FourPlay started life as a classical string quartet, originally made up of friends from the Australian Youth Orchestra. Inspired by the Kronos, Balanescu and Brodsky Quartets blurring of the boundaries between classical and rock music, they began playing rock covers for friends. FourPlay use two violas as opposed to two violins (as a traditional string quartet would use) to produce a thicker, deeper sound.
In 1995 they bought pickups and distortion pedals, and transformed themselves into an electric string quartet. In 1998 they released their first album, Catgut Ya Tongue? which sold out of the first 1,000 copies in 3 weeks... with no distribution or label in place. In April 2000 they released their second full-length album, The Joy Of... to glowing media coverage (now re-pressed an estimated 6 times — and even more for the first album).
FourPlays double remix album Digital Manipulation came out in 2001 to rave reviews across the nation. Produced and distributed independently, this uniquely designed double CD is an amazing compilation of 25 Australian electronic artists remixing FourPlays material, from B(if)tek and David Thrussell to Machine Translations and Deepchild. An album of new work fusing the electronic with the acoustic.
FourPlays live shows are unlike any other string quartet in the world. The energy and sound created is more like that of a rock band, as is their on-stage presentation and banter. A FourPlay gig is an affair not to be missed.
FourPlays repertoire includes arrangements of diverse artists such as the Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Charles Mingus, Depeche Mode and Metallica together with a dash of contemporary classical music, and their own originals, inspired by wide array of genres such as dub, klezmer, electronica, post-rock, improv and avant-garde.
"They are like cinema for the ears" — SBS Television
"There are parallels with the taught propulsion of Philip Glasss music and with the ultra modern and sometimes quixotic Kronos Quartet. They spit in the eye of classical romanticism, chain-sawing into these songs and then throwing them together in new shapes" — Rolling Stone
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