Cello Lounge

The New York based duo Noizepunk & BorisLove are combining elements form classical, jazz, electronic, house, hip-hop, experimental, etc. It is hard to put into one word the genre of music they are playing, hence they do not try to classify. The originality lies in the openness to musical sound in all its forms, in getting out of the box which constricts our understanding and this duo does just that.

“Eclecticism that opens new horizons in the perceptions of music”

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When you hear the duo of Noizepunk & borisLove (Borislav Strulev — cello and Gene Pritsker — Di.J./guitar) you can hear fantastic beats and virtuosic cello playing. Gene’s free rapping over the Brahms, special rap body moves, jazzy with lots of syncopation, live cello over whole thing. The new cd cover is very tasteful and I love how Borislav plays with his name for this project = BorisLove!!!
I heard jazz violin many tmes ( more electro) played by many great masters and must say that i was amazed to hear how Borislav Strulev can play in the modern style and still using acoustic cello.

GENE PRITSKER AND BORISLAV STRULEV PLAYED FROM THEIR SOULS, LOOKING ON EACH OTHER AND PASSING MAIN THEMES ONE BY ONE. THE CONCERT WAS AT THE MEGA PLACE IN NEW YORK CALLED BIRDLAND. WITH MANY GUESTS FROM USA, CANADA AND RUSSIA.

IT WAS A BRAND NEW ART AND VERY AVANT GAURD AND. I WILL BUY THE «CELLO LOIUNGE» CD WITH BIG PLEASURE. I AM HAPPY ITS ALREADY ON AMAZAON.COM

Borislav Strulev: liber-tango Piazzolla

RAUL D’GAMA ROSE, Published: March 9, 2012

There are so few composers of contemporary music who have expanded its idiom and its language that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Among those few, the shape-shifting guitarist/electronics manipulator Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in. On Cello Lounge, with the equally fearless cellist Borislav Strulev, the iconoclast in Pritsker once more comes to the fore. Here, like on several Bill Laswell albums, Pritsker melds and mashes a myriad idioms and invites cultures to collide: Hindustani vocal with Hip-hop, Carnatic with bluegrass; baroque and rococo with modern atonal music and lounge with everything else. If a mish-mash is the expected result, perish the thought. There is not a dull moment on this duo album.

The reason for this exciting musical sojourn is that both Strulev and Pritsker are continuously inventive. The cellist is like an itinerant traveler sweeping across the landscape of his instrument. His left hand is a constant source of magic and it trembles and slides like it has a mind of its own. It travels up and down the strings with absolute abandon; yet it is in complete control and guides the bow in his right hand as it glides across the strings. That right hand seems completely apart from the rest of Strulev’s body, causing his bow to become a magical wand that waves and weaves its way across the taut strings. All this time Pritsker is restless. His guitar twangs and sings in counterpoint. Guided by the electronic beats Pritsker weeps and wails as he traverses miles across the musical landscape. His fuzz box is hyper-active; wah-wah pedals interject warbling effects in the eclectic compositions that skitter and swirl from hip-hop to swing and to the polyrhythms of Indian ragas.