Moscow-born American Regina Spektor puts her wonderful voice to good use by singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps for the stop-motion feature film Kubo and the Two Strings.
Spektor’s voice accompanies a mix of traditional Japanese and Western musical instruments for the song that features in the film which has proved to be a critical success.
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My Guitar Gently Weeps is a cover of a 1968 track by George Harrison from The Beatles’ album The White Album.
Kubo and the Two Strings is about a Japanese boy searching for his late father’s magical suit of armor in a world rife with the supernatural.
The film also features the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes and George Takei.
Go behind the scenes to see how Kubo and the Two Strings was made with this video by The Verge: