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| 1. Ba Ba |
| 2. Ti Ki |
| 3. Di Do |
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With perhaps typical Icelandic perversity, Sigur Ros's Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do is perhaps the most esoteric release of their pretty wilful career. Written for octogenarian US choreographer Merce Cunningham's Dance Company's 50th gala performance, Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do is more than 20 minuites of new instrumental music based around music-box piano lines, percussive sounds derived from ballet shoes and the fractured syllables and tap dancing feet of Merce Cunningham himself. The whole sounds something akin to The Exorcist score married to Byrne/Eno's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts".
First performed alongside Radiohead's similarly commissioned piece at Brooklyn Academy of Music last October, Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do forms part of the Cunningham Dance Company's Split Sides programme, wherein the elements of choreography, music, set design, costume and lighting are chosen randomly on the night by the throw of the dice. Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do contains three separate tracks, respectively 'Ba Ba', 'Ti Ki' and, yes, 'Di Do'. In the spirit of the commission, these were initially written to be played in any order, but, having lived with them, the band like it best when they occur in the sequence presented here.
The artwork incorporates elements of Robert Heishman's set design for Split Sides, as well as Merce's stick-figure notations for choreography. It comes as a special digi-pack CD and one-sided 12-inch that also features an etching from Merce Cunningham on the reverse side.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This short CD (20 minutes) is quite deceiving. It does indeed sound minimalist when you play it from start to end but there's more to this release than meets the eye (or the ear in this case). In fact, the three tracks are really one track deconstructed into three separate pieces.
After a little digging around I discovered that all three tracks, if played at the same time, form an amazing single track!
Despite the tracks being different lengths they bond together really well. The only way to play 3 tracks at the same time is to rip them to your computer and use an audio editing program to recompile them; each track starts from the same point, so line them up at the very beginning and rip into an uncompressed format to eliminate any added silence.
The result of this is an amazing, full, non-minimalist Sigur Rós track.
Absolutely excellent and unique. Getting more involved with what a band has to offer makes me like them even more.
After a little digging around I discovered that all three tracks, if played at the same time, form an amazing single track!
Despite the tracks being different lengths they bond together really well. The only way to play 3 tracks at the same time is to rip them to your computer and use an audio editing program to recompile them; each track starts from the same point, so line them up at the very beginning and rip into an uncompressed format to eliminate any added silence.
The result of this is an amazing, full, non-minimalist Sigur Rós track.
Absolutely excellent and unique. Getting more involved with what a band has to offer makes me like them even more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This set of three pieces comissioned for Merce Cunningham's coreography is amongst the most beautiful of the icelandic group's work. They eschew the commerciality of albums like "Takk" and "Agaetis Byrjun" in a return to their minimalist heritage. They combine the use of noises with dramatic dynamics and repetitive motifs in a way that is beautiful and strange: Think "Von" meets "()" yet much more emotional and charming.
Track 1, "Ba ba", is probably the least original, it reminds me very much of Steve Reich's compositions for tuned percussion. However, they manage to achieve an emotional connection with the listener that Reich could only dream of.
Track 2, "Ti Ki" is far less structured than its companions, and may requires a few listens to see the pattern of their composition emerge. The most subtle track on the record, it helps to bind the beauty of "Ba Ba" with the noise of "Di do".
track 3, "Di do" is the only piece to extensively feature the human voice (Merce Cunningham's). It is a very short and dramatic work which builds up into a frenzy - much like songs on "Agaetis" and "Takk", yet the use of glorious white-noise is more like "Von"... This means that in one very short track, sigur ros manage to explain the many disparate threads in their music.
The CD is only 20ish minutes long - not much "bang for your buck", but every second is brilliance. It is like a mini-guide to the rest of their work. I would have loved to see how this came accross in performance with the dancers, and radiohead etc... As one extra bonus, the sleeve art has some of Merce Cunningham's bizzare choreographic notation feintly scrawled over the outside.
Lovely!
Track 1, "Ba ba", is probably the least original, it reminds me very much of Steve Reich's compositions for tuned percussion. However, they manage to achieve an emotional connection with the listener that Reich could only dream of.
Track 2, "Ti Ki" is far less structured than its companions, and may requires a few listens to see the pattern of their composition emerge. The most subtle track on the record, it helps to bind the beauty of "Ba Ba" with the noise of "Di do".
track 3, "Di do" is the only piece to extensively feature the human voice (Merce Cunningham's). It is a very short and dramatic work which builds up into a frenzy - much like songs on "Agaetis" and "Takk", yet the use of glorious white-noise is more like "Von"... This means that in one very short track, sigur ros manage to explain the many disparate threads in their music.
The CD is only 20ish minutes long - not much "bang for your buck", but every second is brilliance. It is like a mini-guide to the rest of their work. I would have loved to see how this came accross in performance with the dancers, and radiohead etc... As one extra bonus, the sleeve art has some of Merce Cunningham's bizzare choreographic notation feintly scrawled over the outside.
Lovely!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For those of you who know about Sigur Ros, this is a bit different. Then again, Sigur Ros, brilliant post-rock experimentalists, have always been different, but this is different from their different. Gone are the bowed guitars and the angelic singing. The album insteads sounds like Mike Oldfield with an Icelandic twist. And yet, this record is stamped in a subtle way with Sigur Ros-like brilliance. The weird tape-looped voices are there, and the unhappy but strangely uplifting melodies are there. It sounds a lot like Jonsi and co. have progressed their experimental ideas you hear often in between tracks on previous albums. Anyone who has heard Jonsi's (the lead singer) latest solo offerings and has enjoyed them will like this. The three tracks do sound similar, like they're actually one big track, but who cares when it's 20 minutes of weird and wonderful sounds? Maybe they're meant to sound like a long single song.
Long-time Sigur Ros fans should buy this, no question. Newcomers will probably be better off with Agaetis Byrjun (sorry if that's spelt wrong) or ( ) (and yes, that's spelt right!) In any case, it's worth it for the cool cover art alone.
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