Big Men Cry

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Raindrops, ethnic wails and pounding beats mark this latest from one of England's leading exponents of tribal electronica. One-man band Toby Marks again whips up an impressive, trancy noise, this time with the aid of sax man Dick Parry and the use of uilleann pipes on the nicely titled "Drunk as a Monk." --Jeff Bateman

Product Description
First Studio Release in Over Two Years. Tracks Include: Drippy, Celestine, Drunk as a Monk, Big Men Cry, Gates Does Windows, One Billion Miles Out, Starstation Earth.

Tracks:

Drippy
Celestine
Drunk As A Monk
Big Men Cry
Gates Does Windows
One Billion Miles Out
Starstation Earth

Album 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:

Galactic Distances........2007-01-27

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.

Greatest gaian album.......2003-04-25

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.

Average customer rating:

Tremendously Imaginitive and Inspired Album
Banco's best
World beat fluff...
Less techno/electronica - more for ambient music fans!
Not his best

Big Men Cry
Banco de Gaia
Manufacturer: Mammoth
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004AYE
Release Date: 1997-07-08

Tracks:

Drippy
Celestine
Drunk As A Monk
Big Men Cry
Gates Does Windows
One Billion Miles Out
Starstation Earth

Amazon.com

Raindrops, ethnic wails and pounding beats mark this latest from one of England's leading exponents of tribal electronica. One-man band Toby Marks again whips up an impressive, trancy noise, this time with the aid of sax man Dick Parry and the use of uilleann pipes on the nicely titled "Drunk as a Monk." --Jeff Bateman

Album Details

First Studio Release in Over Two Years. Tracks Include: Drippy, Celestine, Drunk as a Monk, Big Men Cry, Gates Does Windows, One Billion Miles Out, Starstation Earth.

Customer Reviews:

Tremendously Imaginitive and Inspired Album.......2004-12-28

This album is thoughtful and complex. The tracks start out simply and innocently enough, slightly timid and shy, and before you know you it, you're drawn into a sonic landscape and not only unfolds infront of you, but pulls you into its vortex.

The music is enraging, engaging, emotional, and spiritual. This album has it all, and clearly one of my all time favorites.

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Banco's best.......2001-07-14

In my opinion this is Banco's most mature album. Out of all that he has crafted Big Men Cry is a superlative experience. First half appears upbeat. Then it's through the looking glass.

The only reason I can see why the comparisons made to Pink Floyd is track 2. The presence of saxophone and the sound of the synth do indeed remind one of the Wish You Were Here `floyd. Yet there's so much more happening. Pink Floyd could only wish for such a beautiful piece. So in no way is it a negative that Banco's creating such a wonderful sound. Anyway as I say there's so much more. The title track - when I first heard it - sounds as if you'll sure someone else wrote it. It is a classic piece. Short, serene, sad and watery is how I can best describe it...an oriental water garden with strings. Very moving. Starstation Earth is a delicate piece which gives a brilliant ending. Subtle melody and an breathtaking synth solo before the beat arrives 5 minutes before the end.

Big Men Cry is a lot more `airy' then other works by Banco. Much bigger environments to lose yourself and yet introspective as well. Brilliantly recorded. To sum up I would heartily recommend this to anyone wanting to do an emotional travelin'

World beat fluff..........1999-11-27

Definively inferior to Banco de Gaia's previous work, this is nothing else than fake world music with some techno-electronic beats thrown in. It must be said that Drippy, the first track is a trully great opener, but the rest of the stuff is pure dissapointment.

Less techno/electronica - more for ambient music fans!.......1999-08-24

Personally, I found this album to be my favorite from Banco de Gaia. More ambient and mellow than his other works, I feel that "Big Men Cry" contains much more depth than the other albums and expands onto more creative grounds. The songs "Celestine" and "Big Men Cry" are both masterpieces yet very different from each other. True, this is an album that is more for the mind than for the feet, but maybe Banco de Gaia wanted to create a more introspective and atmospheric album this time around.

Not his best.......1998-11-21

After the excellent 'Last Train to Lhasa' and 'Maya', Banco da Gaya looses strength and breadth and at times comes across as pastiche Pink Floyd (which they themselves are more than capable of). Get his previous work but don't assume that this album will move you to the same degree.

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