'Maya ' was my first introduction to the wonderful music of ' BancoDeGaia ' who is by the way ,one ' Toby Marks ' .from the UK.
Although initially releasing several casettes this was his debut CD. It's a really excellent electonic music you have here. Absolutely filled with flowing rich spacey rhythms / melodies and cross cultural influences with ethnic embellishments. Basslines and synth arpeggios play an important part in his music and they are fantastic on ' Maya ' particularly on tracks like ' Heliopolis' and ' Sunspots ' .Trance and Psy styled ...yes! But definitely done with great style.
A supremely enjoyable CD then and still probably my favourite next to his ' Last train To Lhasa '. Every song here is really spectacular and if you don't know his music this is the one to start with. Nice colorful artwork too to match ...
An extraordinary double disc (1995) offering from ' BancoDeGaia ' . This ones worth getting for the title track alone which begins with a steam train slowly panning across the stereo spectrum followed by sampled station voices mixed with sweeping synth pads. In comes some sparkling plucked string arpeggios and eventually solid rhythmic beats/ bass join in with again sampled vocals. Very atmospheric and multi layed , this just builds and builds in sync with the steam train. Absolutely awesome work here which the rest of the CD cannot quite compete with , superb as it is! I'd say this is probably ' Banco' s ' best song ever here. An absolute gem!
The whole of the 2 discs are really all excellent though with lots of tribal and oriental sounds throughout. Fantastic display of sampled instruments / vocals too! Very high calibre ...
Advantages: Top notch recording! Very Good music! Disadvantages: Although some excellent tracks a little dissapointing overall!
A 1999 offering from ' BancoDeGaia ' . Despite the title i found this one to be a little less than magical to earlier works. Although it does contain some excellent songs especially the slow burning ones ' Sinhalla' and ' Frogs Dinner' which he seems to excell at with his mixtures of Dub and Trance / Techno / Ethnic. Most other songs though seem a little overblown and somehow not so memorable as earlier works. Some of the vocal samples didn't seem to work on this one either. At least to me....others might think different though.RECOMMENDED nevertheless!!
Track Listing:
1 I Love Baby Cheesy
2 Harvey And The Old Ones
3 Sinhala ? Real Audio
4 Touching The Void ? Real Audio
5 144K?
6 Frog's Dinner
7 Glove Puppet
8 No Rain ...
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