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Banco de Gaia - Maya

 

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Artist: Banco de Gaia

Title: Maya

Label: Planet Dog

Date: 1994

 

Track listing:

 

01. 7'24" Heliopolis

02. 8'02" Mafich Arabi

03. 6'59" Sunspot

04. 6'37" Gamelah (DUB 3)

05. 9'16" Qurna (Mister Christian On The Decks)

06. 7'45" Sheesha

07. 7'31" Lai Lah

08. 11'13" Shanti (Red With White Spots Edit)

 

Review:

 

I can't believe how come no one reviewed any Banco de Gaia

here yet!! These guys were amogst the inventors of morning

trance and (post 90s) ambient psy!! This is one of those

albums which flow nicely and calmely from beginning to

end, nice and a bit psycedellic and nice female voices

with effects and, of course, oriental and tribal

influences. It's mostly chill-out, only 2 tracks

(Heliopolis and Gamelah) have a higher BPM and could be

described as morning trance. IMO, this isn't really the

type of album that could be described track by track. It's

just nice to listen to the whole album and feel the

trip... This is quality stuff and most tracks are still

good by today's standards!!! My favorites are Gamelah,

Qurna and Shanti, although some parts of Shanti remind me

of Enigma (NOT cool!!) So I give this an 8/10 since it's

one of those pioneer albums that everybody got inspired

from afterwards.

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This is the best Banco album... but I hate those high

pitched "crackling" sounds on Shanti. Isn't there a

9th track, btw? 7.5/10

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Guest hippo

Yeah, there is a track 9 and it is called "Maya". This is definitely a

wonderful piece of chill-out and it is high time Banco de Gaia albums find a

spot in these review pages, cuz they most certainly belong there.

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Guest wouterspace[at]hotmail[dot]com

Definitly the best from Banco de Gaia. Lovely stuff, brings back good memories!

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Now this is some classic timeless stuff. Absolutely essential. I have had so

many great moments with this music in my ears. However calling it

morning-trance is to take it a bit too far. Great Ethnic Ambient-chill. track

3-8 are the best. It's that damn good that I want a cd-copy of it too, I just

have the vinyl-version.

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Good album but that is all..Misses something but not too much, some melodies

get the things happening but somehow looses somewhere....best on album :

HELIOPOLIS, MAFICH ARABI, SHEESHA, LAI LAH, SHANTI....7/10

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A classic, worth owning if you like ambient as it was one of the originals that

inspired many others subsequently. Seems to me that the real achievement here

was the creation of a flowing whole despite all of the different flavours in

different tracks (strangely, I think the overall flavour of this album is a

bit more Middle Eastern than South American, but maybe I'm wrong). The same

thing could be said of "Last Train to Lhasa", except that the theme of that

"Tibet" album is totally obvious and upfront and consistent. This may not have

the complexity and trippiness of more recent ambient releases, but I'd still

give it 10/10.

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Banco de Gaia - Maya

 

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Artist: Banco de Gaia

Title: Maya

Label: Planet Dog

Date: 1994

 

Track listing:

 

01. 7'24" Heliopolis

02. 8'02" Mafich Arabi

03. 6'59" Sunspot

04. 6'37" Gamelah (DUB 3)

05. 9'16" Qurna (Mister Christian On The Decks)

06. 7'45" Sheesha

07. 7'31" Lai Lah

08. 11'13" Shanti (Red With White Spots Edit)

09. 7'48" Maya

This should be better. ;)

 

I give this album a 10 :)

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