Live at Glastonbury

Banco De Gaia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mammoth
• ASIN: B000004AY6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,173 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Last Train to Lhasa

2. Mafich Arabi

3. Amber

4. White Paint

5. Kincajou

6. Kuos

7. 887

8. Heliopolis

9. Data Inadequate

Editorial Reviews

"Banco de Gaia has created a fantastic body of work, successfully blending world-beat sounds and styles with cutting edge technology"- LA Weekly

"Consistently releasing albums of wondrous beauty and almost mind boggling creativity"- Making Music Magazine

"...music that'll touch your mind, body and soul."- Mixmag --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great live set, August 13, 2005

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Joseph Geni (Evanston, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at Glastonbury (Audio CD)

Everyone knew that Kincajou was a song for dancing, but who knew that the rest of the "Last Train to Lhasa" material would go down so hot at a live show?

This is a solid live release of Banco de Gaia, one of the UK's (and the world's) great electronic pioneers, performing live some time after the Lhasa record came out, so the bulk of the show is from that. Somehow, Toby Marks makes tracks I never would have thought danceable ("White Paint"?!) into driving club beats, although his earlier material goes down more sensationally ("Heliopolis," "Data Inadequate"). As Toby at this stage was performing alone, it is never clear exactly how much he is controlling the myriad and cascading layers of beats, synths and Eastern samples and how much he is relying on playback. "Heliopolis" and "Lhasa" sound almost unaltered from their original studio recordings, save for a few bits of timbral tweaking here and there. But other tracks are clearly more interactive experiences and are completely revamped for the live show. "887," which had to be shortened to avoid some "incriminating sampling," goes down particularly wickedly. Bottom line, it all sounds good live, and even if you have both this disc and "Last Train to Lhasa" you will find them sufficiently different that it will be worth the expense of owning both.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the group., May 12, 2005

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Gregory Wild-Smith (Oakland, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at Glastonbury (Audio CD)

I had never heard of Banco de Gaia before listening to this album, but it provides a look at one of the better crop of world music mixed with electronic beats style artists.

You can really get a feel for a band on record albums, and this album is full of energy, but mellow enough for a sunny afteroon as well. Its foot-tapping, drum-beat led fun that would make a great addition to any music collection.

Posibly its only fault is that, as a live album, some tracks are a bit overlong and were extended for the crowd. However stick this on a CD player in a park and that detraction soon goes away.

Overall - an excellent album, which perfectly evokes an outdoor vibe. Recomended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Re-Issue of a Classic Live Performance, February 25, 2003

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Jeevan "jsiva" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Glastonbury (Audio CD)

Banco de Gaia were doing the world-beat/electronica thing well before it became hip, and they were doing it right. This is a re-issue of an album that was released some years back of their performance at Glastonbury, UK that has a lot of the energy and beat of their earlier work.