5Million Swarovski Crystal electric violins, seizing classic pop, cross-over andclub tracks and put them through the FUSE wringer.



FUSE’s eponymous album was released throughEdel/Universal Records. Theresults are innovative but loving reinterpretations of hit anthems for theviolin.



As Linzi says, “It’s completely fresh, no onethought that what we do was even possible. Everything you hear is violins! The style that we use when we play is more akin to that of aguitar player, with more soul and electricity – literally! We specialise inblowing away people’s preconceptions.” FUSE are already finding friends withmusic royalty who appreciate what they do. After raving, “I love what you’ve done, how did you get thatsound?”, Francis Rossi appears on the album version of Quo’s ‘Down Down’, NickMason of Pink Floyd offered his services as a drummer and Roger Daltrey askedLinzi and Ben to support him!



To celebrate the release of their album FUSE are theonly string group in the world to exclusively collaborated with SwarovskiCrystal to create the most expensive electric violins ever made! Each violinhas over 50,000, each crystal individually applied to the bespoke carbon-kevlarBridge violin body. Each FUSE Signature Swarovski violin is worth over $1,500,000and was launched to the media in-store at the world famous Harrods.



In 2013 Ben Lee became the 5-time Guinness WorldRecord as the Fastest Violin Player in the world. Ben performed “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov atover 17 notes per second making him the first player in history to break themagic-minute mark – Ben can proclaim to now have the fastest fingers in the world!



What FUSE do can have a truly global appeal; thereare no language barriers. Whilstthey are very proudly a string band, listeners can sing along to the chorusesthat we all know. With the releaseof “FUSE”, Linzi and Ben will be bringing their unique brand of entertainmentto a whole new audience!