Banyan

Banyan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 1997)
• Original Release Date: May 30, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cyber Octave
• ASIN: B000003Z2O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,321 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars your dark side, November 1, 2005

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Stargrazer "the lost mixtape of my life" (deep in the heart of Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banyan (Audio CD)

Where "Anytime At All" slips into the easy glove of pop-funk-fusion, this debut album is it's darker distant cousin. There's hints of "Dark Magus"-style heaviness, Stravinsky's primal iconoclasm, and a freewheeling improvisatory edge that lets you know right from the start that unexpected sounds and changes will continue to assert themselves.

Where "Anytime At All's" rotating cast ultimately left an aftertaste of Chili Peppers-style jam rock, "Banyan's" steady fourpiece of Watt, Money Mark, Nels Cline and Stephen Perkins provides a far more lasting and wierder listen, dripping with psychic residue.

Watt's ever inventive basslines fuel songs like the standout, "Christmas Tree Park," while Cline's astonishing wiry guitar lines transect and dodge all the little textural bits and samples conjured by Money Mark, Perkins, and production team The Dust Brothers.

The recording of this album is in itself singular: each musician recorded in semi-isolation, wearing headphones that funneled Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" or other challenging music into their ears. The results were then assembled by the Dust Brothers and David Turin into a record that listens best as a whole, rather than as individual movements.

"Banyan" is an assemblage chock full of left turns, and a testimony to the continuing art of improvisation.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exótic Music!!!, February 20, 2001

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"taurusbulba" (Bogotá) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Banyan (Audio CD)

En este album encontramos la reunion de algunas figuras destacadas en el ámbito del rock alternativo en una aproximación a las formas vanguardistas de la improvisación, con elementos extraidos del jazz y de la música clásica. La sección rítmica de Stephen Perkins (Janes Adiction, Porno for Pyros) y Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose) constituye, en gran medida, la esencia de este C.D. El album es excelente para comprender las versatilidad y la inteligencia de estas figuras celebres del Rock norteamericano.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars With eggs?, August 5, 2005

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Kim Carsons (Aberdeen,Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Banyan (Audio CD)

I don't know how to use this album...I tried many times...but I can't understand..."Anytime At All" is great..."Live At perkins Palace" is good...This,I don't know...maybe I have to use it in another way...maybe I have to cook it with my eggs & bacon at morning,then maybe it could be ready to digest.