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Regina Spektor sings a haunting rendition of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in a new music video promoting 3D stop-motion film Kubo and the Two Strings. The clip blends footage of Spektor in the recording booth with dazzling shots from the Laika and Focus Features movie, which opens in theaters August 19th. The Wild, WTF and Oh-So-TrueFrom docs on sex scandals and rock stars to a stop-motion samurai epic, your cure for the summer blockbuster bluesSpektor’s version of the George Harrison anthem, arranged by Dario Marianelli, finds her singing over a web of string instruments. The track climaxes with a solo performed on the shamisen, a three-stringed Japanese lute, and ends with a quiet piano coda. The track is featured on the Kubo and the Two Strings Soundtrack, available now.

Source: Watch Regina Spektor Croon ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ – Rolling Stone