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Last Train to Lhasa

~ Banco De Gaia (Artist)

5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Audio CD (20 May 2002)
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Disco Gecko
ASIN: B0000666CH

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102,593 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Last train to Lhasa
2. Kuos
3. Amber
4. Kincajou
5. White paint
6. 887 (structure)
Disc: 2
1. Kuos (Gnomes mix)
2. Kincajou (duck asteroid)
3. Eagle (Small Steppa mix)

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CD Description
This is the sound of the techno-tribe, banging a drum with one hand and a mouse with the other. Toby Marks, AKA Banco de Gaia, doesn't want to work; he just wants to bang on the drum all day. Thankfully, he makes a pretty joyous noise-a full-bodied amalgam of the Orb, Loop Guru, and Transglobal Underground. Using an army of ethnic and indigenous samples (from Indian drums and chants to woodblocks, rainsticks, and Oriental shakers) and zapping them through the technological prism, Banco de Gaia creates a modern-day techno-folk music that calls up the shaman buried deep in our ancestral memory.
Of course, Marks' idea of the shaman is the contemporaryelectronic-music producer or the DJ. The barmy rhythms pouncing about here work at home and on the disco-floor, but their most appropriate setting would be a dancehall in Uganda. Marks' natives whip up the digital atmosphere with incendiary frenzy. From the chugging locomotive techno of "Last Trainto Lhasa"' to the pan-cultural rhythmic stew of "Kincajou" and the burbling Orient-meets-the-Orb synthesizer textures of "887", LAST TRAIN TO LHASA is an intoxicating descent intoprimitive ritual madness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The purest and best of Banco de Gaia's albums to date, 19 May 2003

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Some people label electronica and music in this genre as soulless, but this is definitely not a claim that can be given to this album. It was recorded in response to the Chinese government's decision to build a mammoth railway into the heart of Tibet's capital, Lhasa (see the CD inlay for more info. It is quietly powerful, both politically and musically, and features some haunting and beautiful eastern vocal and instrumental samples.

Last Train to Lhasa lends itself equally as well to background chillout music as it does to being listened to in its own right. There are no obvious weak tracks, instead many mighty fine ones! The epic 36 minute long "Kincajou (duck! asteroid)" is perfect for contemplative chillout, "China (clouds not mountains)" is quietly funky, "White Paint" quickly builds up out of the previous track, "Kincajou", into something not far short of genius and goes on to become the brilliant "887 (structure)", which has some excellent sampled vocals and superb eastern-influenced instumentation, which all add to the political 'sub-plot' of this album. "Last Train To Lhasa" is has an immensly catchy beat and some chants which make it infectious! And the understated "Eagle (small steppa mix)" is an excellent wind-down track to the album.

Whilst it is not as uptempo as say "The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia", nor is it as soft and brooding as "Big Men Cry", it is no worse off for this! The tracks are beautifully mixed together into a cohesive, reflective, multi-faceted album, which despite being 8 years old (and counting!) has not aged much at all, unlike many albums of this genre and era.

This is an album very hard to dislike, but rather easy to love. If you are a fan then this undoubtedly will already be in your collection, but if you are new to Banco de Gaia then invest in this - you shouldn't regret it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars pure bliss, 11 Jun 2006

By	phil "pjb808" (england) - See all my reviews

This has to be one of the finest pieces of chill out music ever produced. From the opening bars with a haunting train in the background, to the other wordly beats at the end I cannot find fault with this CD. Perfect for reflective moments, and then just chillin away. Wonderful.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, 26 April 2008

By	A. J. Sturgess "Alan Sturgess" (North Yorkshire, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The version I have is the 3CD set which was a special limited edition (Amazon don't even seem to list it). I echo the other reviewers' comments - this is a truly classic recording. There are one or two sections which become rather too noise-oriented rather than rhytm or melody oriented (eg: Track 2 CD 1) but overall this is an intensely listenable and emotional album, full of etheral voices, sounds and rhythms.

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