Chargaux Is Making Orchestra (So Very) Cool Again

Meet Charly and Margaux, also known as Chargaux. They play violin and viola, respectively, but not the kind you tuned out at your high school orchestra concert. The two Brooklyn-based artists rework the traditionally classical instruments' vibes, releasing bubbling, boiling liquid sounds, somewhere between the brashness of jazz and the mellowness of R&B. The musicians met by chance three years ago and have been playing together ever since. Their EP "Broke and Baroque" comes out next week, but th...