The Section Quartet
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The Section Quartet is a string quartet that is based in Los Angeles, California. Emerging in 1998, Section features Eric Gorfain and Daphne Chen on violin, Lauren Chipman on viola, and Richard Dodd on cello. It specializes in turning popular rock songs into classical quartet pieces. They have recorded for Vitamin Records.
They are especially known for creating all-string version albums of Radiohead, Incubus, Nine Inch Nails, and Tool. Other rock covers include pieces by The Strokes, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They have also performed on many popular music albums, ranging from Christina Aguilera's album Stripped, to Finch's album What It Is to Burn. The group has musical contribution on many original movie soundtracks such as Whip It!, Underworld, Southland Tales, I Heart Huckabees, and Saw.[1]Maynard James Keenan of Tool asked them to play strings on A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step after hearing their Tool tribute.[2]
The Section Quartet performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004 and 2006.
Discography
- No Electricity Required (2004)
- Lizards Like Us (2006)
- Fuzzbox (2007)
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