Big Men Cry [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Banco De Gaia

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Six Degrees
• ASIN: B00007JGPI
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,247 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"Impossible to classify, but think Royksopp, Zero 7... The Orb, Pink Floyd and 'Papua New Guinea' -era Future Sound Of London as markers. Even then you're only scratching the surface."- Muzik (UK)

"Banco de Gaia will give those duking it out for a piece of the electronica sales pie a reason to sweat with Big Men Cry. "Celestine" features the sax work of Dick Parry, whose solos can be heard on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon"- Billboard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest gaian album, April 25, 2003

By	"groovesoup" (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This is trainmusic. It is also music hard to review since it hits the gaian, spiritual part of your mind more than your simple human intellect:-)...but I'll give it a try.
Banco De Gaia has always been onto something big, but somehow the music has been to mature to really excite. This is not the case with Big Men Cry. Still mature it also has the feeling of a sane child free to play. Hence this is the best album by the man. With tribal drums, exotic voices and live recordings of engines, mixed with alien electronic tweeked tones, fat base and also "silence", it has the capability to give you an out of the body experience towards the end of the album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Galactic Distances., January 26, 2007

By	dream factory (Triangulum, M33) - See all my reviews

Toby Marks writes ecclectic electronic dance music; great. But what I came across on this CD were tracks 6 & 7. Polished well produced electronica space ambience. Not mysterious. Yet not new age....#6 "One billion miles out" tracks an elliptical heliopausal journey to the edge of our solar system. Kuiperian chants mix with intangable inner space communications to fill the dark void....#7 "Starship earth" is an intense (20 min) evolving oversized production. Somewhere out there filamentous infrared cirrus sounds support a base for various eclipsing binaries. Ghostly protogalactic hollow voices hold your attention while wonderfully balanced sound waves support the fabric of this space project.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep, Emotional, and Energetci, October 24, 2007

By	Filip Galiza (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a wonderful album by someone who knows the formula for deep IDM music. There is a lot of thought, emotion, and energy in this album and by the second or third listen this will really move you. The overall speed of this is more of a faster IDM (intelligent dance music) while containing a ton of thought in each one of the tracks. There are some vocals in the tracks and you can tell the vocalists have a trained singing career (unlike bulk of house singers).

The album is injected with some east Asian instruments which at times will make you think while at other times it will put a tear in your eye. Everything is so well thought out, you wont be able to help but to listen to this over and over. Introduce yourself to Banco and enjoy this fantastic album. A+