bond to BOND

Today I will talk about the band called Bond, Bond is British – Australian string quartet. They play Violin, Viola and Cello instrument. I would say bond to BOND why? Okay, there are bond and BOND

The first logo is the old bond. So what does it mean? The originally member of bond were Haylie Ecker (1st violinist from Perth), Eos (2nd violinist from Wales), Tania Davis (violist from Sydney) and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cellist from Yorkshire). The logo bond was in their first album called born (2000) until explosive (2005). But then Haylie left the band 2008 because she was having a baby. I though it will be the end of the band but I was wrong untill bond performed in public again in 2009 the band were performing the mini album called the four season they perform for the car company peugeot with the new member is Elspeth Hanson from London replacing the original member Haylie. From that bond changed the logo to BOND. And that is the new BOND with the member are Tania (1st violin), Eos (2nd violin), Elspeth (viola) and Gay-yee (cello). 

Born/2000/Instrumental – Pop, Synthpop

1. Quixote
2. Wintersun
3. Victory
4. Oceanic
5. Kismet
6. Korobushka
7. Alexander the Great
8. Duel
9. Bella Donna
10. The 1812
11. Dalali
12. Hymn
13. Victory (Mike Batt Mix)
14. Viva

 Shine/2002/Ethic – Pop

1. Allegretto
2. Shine
3. Fuego
4. Strange Paradise
5. Speed
6. Big Love Adagio
7. Kashmir
8. Gypsy Rhapsody
9. Libertango
10. Sahara
11. Ride
12. Space
13. Bond on Bond
14. Odyssey

Remixed/2003/Disco, Dance, Pop

1. Victory
2. Viva!
3. Wintersun
4. Speed
5. Fuego
6. Homecoming
7. Viva!
8. Atlanta
9. Shine
10. Time
11. Bond on Bond
12. Duel
13. Jingle Bell Rock
14. Innocent

 Classified/2004/Classical Crossover, Pop, Rock

1. Explosive
2. Scorchio
3. Midnight Garden
4. Fly Robin Fly
5. Lullaby
6. Samba
7. Hungarian
8. I’ll Fly Away
9. Dream Star
10. Highly Strung
11. Adagio for Strings
12. Señorita
13. Explosive
14. The Star Spangled Banner

Explosive – The Best Of bond/2005/Pop

1. Victory
2. Explosive
3. Fuego
4. Viva
5. Shine
6. Wintersun
7. Scorchio
8. Duel
9. Gypsy Rhapsody
10. Caravan
11. Sugarplum
12. Carmina

The four seasons/2009/ Classical Crossover

1. Autumn
2. Spring
3. Summer
4. Winter
5. The four seasons (Medley)

Play/2011/Classical Crossover, Pop

1. Diablo
2. Jai Ho
3. Elysium
4. Pump It
5. Beatroot
6. Last Time (aka Bittersweet)
7. Summer
8. Winter
9. Apasionada
10. West With The Night
11. Road To Samarkand
12. Victory 10
13. Diablo (BOND vs Young Offenders)
14. Bond Goes Gaga

      Their famous song is Victory from the album born. Sometimes they compossed their own song for the example Tania (Señorita from classified and Odyssey from shine), Haylie (Sahara from shine), Eos (Bella Donna from born, Ride from shine and West With The Night from play), Gay-Yee (Kismet from born, I’ll Fly Away from classified and Beatroot from play).

       The big moment are in 2000 bond debute album born then in 2001 for the first time bond held a big concert in London Albert Royalt Hall. In 2002 bond released the shine album in the same time bond also recorded the cover song Psycho by Bernard Herrman from the movie Psycho. Debute compilation remixed album in 2003 also performed song called kismet and salsa in Johnny English movie then in Classical Britawards and bond became the special guest for Miss Universe 2003 in Panama performed 6 songs including Victory, Allegretto, Shine, Strange Paradise, Libertango and Fuego. In 2004 classified album released and held a concert US – Asian then in 2005 bond performed in the movie  XXX : State of the Union played victory as the guest perform. After Haylie left the band replacing by Elspeth in 2009 bond honored to play for the car company Peugeot to promoted the new peugeot 308 cc they were playing the four seasons. In Late 2010 bond were performing in Mexico to promoted their new up coming album in that time. On june 2011 bond released the album called play at the same time bond also recorded the song called Bond Goes Gaga in Japan the song was Lady Gaga Medley. In 2012 bond performed in London Olympic play the song I Am the Walrus with Russel Brand. 2012 – 2015 bond performed in many festival such as Mawazine Festival, Festival Cultural zacatecas, Festival de las almas Valle de Bravo, Magnetic Festival Italian, Monsoon Festival Vietnam in April 29 bond performed at Moscone center San fransicco, CA at Microsoft Build playing the instrument called Build Prelude No.1 compossed by David William Hearn then bond invited by Pasarela Leonisa seduccion they played 3 song Victory 10, Explosive and Fuego.

The New BOND

Tania, Elspeth, Eos and Gay-yee



The old bond

Gay-yee, Haylie, Eos and Tania

English Skill

Hola Quépasa? I will talk about how to improve your English speaking skill. To be honest I don’t really like it if someone say ‘I am stupid, so I can not’ nobody is stupid in this world they’re just too lazy right? Before that I will tell you something about my story, my ancestry is Sundanese– Thai – Dutch from mother’s family and Javanese – Chinese from father’s family and sometimes we speak in a mixed language. So sometimes people think that’s why I am good in English, nah! I don’t think my English is good, some foreigner say so but I don’t really believe it.  Anyway wanna know the tips? Here we go . . . 

1. Know about English language

    Find which country use English such as England, America, Australia,           Singapore and the other country.

2. Learn the basic

    Learn the basic english is not really difficult and you need to memorized                 it well such as greeting and introducting yourself 

Hello. My name is  . . . . 

I’m from . . . . 

What’s your name? Where do you live?

How are you doing? I’m fine thank you! 

3. Reading

    Improve you English by reading, be it books, newspaper or magazine.

    I suggest to read it in a loud voice

4. Watching

    Watching also can improve your English skill. You can watch everything                   like movies, news, interview or documentary. You can use subtitle if you                   don’t really understand to make it easier. Watch their mouth and listen                     carefully. If you watch the movie, repeat what they say and do the 

    same thing.

5. Listening

    Listening to music is the best part to learn English, you can choose

    the genre such as Pop, Slow, Jazz or something else. Write the words that 

    you don’t know and search it in dictionary and memorize it.

6. Tutor 

     Find a tutor to help you learn to speak English. Tutor can be a native  
     speaker or someone who can speak English well. Friends, teacher, 
     or anyone.

Those are six ways on how to improve you speaking skill according to my experience. But remember not to become smug of your English skill if you feel like you have reached the peak.