Banco de Gaia

Banco de Gaia

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Banco de Gaia episodes

  • Banco de Gaia - Zeus No Like Techno (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia - We Are Here (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia - Not In My Name (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia - Still Life (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia - Gray Over Gray (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia - Down From the Mountain (preview)
    You Are Here, Banco de Gaia’s sixth studio album, was a meditation on how things were in 2004, the year of its original creation. From elaborate electronica to caustic commentary, its globally inspired series of soundtracks runs from mystic to manic and back again.
    Alongside floor-filling booty-stompers like Tongue in Chic and Zeus No Like Techno (a staple in the Banco live show to this day) are the introspective Still Life and the hypnotic Not in My Name, while Jennifer Folker, the vocalist on Obsidian and Glove Puppet, returns for an extra-smoky performance on the elegant torch song Gray Over Gray.
    The slightly delayed 20th Anniversary Edition comes with a second disc of standout remixes from the time, plus a handful of fresh versions.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - The Dying Light (preview)
    Trauma, my first album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts, is an expression of stress and of suffering while also a celebration of overcoming and of hope.
    This juxtaposition is explored over the course of the album: a craving for peace in Mir; a simple bee sting in A Bee Song; loss and grieving in Draig Ddu; the wish for things to be otherwise in War; greed and abuse of power in My Little Country; AI’s potential for good and/or bad in Electric Sheep; a yearning for something greater and purer in Mo Dhia; the unbearable weight of relentless suffering in Endure; and the resignation, acceptance and surrender of The Dying Light.
    The creation of the album was informed by both family and global issues: declining health in both my parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.
    Despite all of this, Trauma seeks and finds light in the darkness, and great beauty and joy in the midst of despair. The album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.
    Nietzsche wrote “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”. Perhaps that is what truly makes us human?
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Endure (preview)
    Trauma, my first album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts, is an expression of stress and of suffering while also a celebration of overcoming and of hope.
    This juxtaposition is explored over the course of the album: a craving for peace in Mir; a simple bee sting in A Bee Song; loss and grieving in Draig Ddu; the wish for things to be otherwise in War; greed and abuse of power in My Little Country; AI’s potential for good and/or bad in Electric Sheep; a yearning for something greater and purer in Mo Dhia; the unbearable weight of relentless suffering in Endure; and the resignation, acceptance and surrender of The Dying Light.
    The creation of the album was informed by both family and global issues: declining health in both my parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.
    Despite all of this, Trauma seeks and finds light in the darkness, and great beauty and joy in the midst of despair. The album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.
    Nietzsche wrote “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”. Perhaps that is what truly makes us human?
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Mo Dhia (preview)
    Trauma, my first album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts, is an expression of stress and of suffering while also a celebration of overcoming and of hope.
    This juxtaposition is explored over the course of the album: a craving for peace in Mir; a simple bee sting in A Bee Song; loss and grieving in Draig Ddu; the wish for things to be otherwise in War; greed and abuse of power in My Little Country; AI’s potential for good and/or bad in Electric Sheep; a yearning for something greater and purer in Mo Dhia; the unbearable weight of relentless suffering in Endure; and the resignation, acceptance and surrender of The Dying Light.
    The creation of the album was informed by both family and global issues: declining health in both my parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.
    Despite all of this, Trauma seeks and finds light in the darkness, and great beauty and joy in the midst of despair. The album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.
    Nietzsche wrote “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”. Perhaps that is what truly makes us human?
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Electric Sheep (preview)
    Trauma, my first album since 2016's The 9th of Nine Hearts, is an expression of stress and of suffering while also a celebration of overcoming and of hope.
    This juxtaposition is explored over the course of the album: a craving for peace in Mir; a simple bee sting in A Bee Song; loss and grieving in Draig Ddu; the wish for things to be otherwise in War; greed and abuse of power in My Little Country; AI’s potential for good and/or bad in Electric Sheep; a yearning for something greater and purer in Mo Dhia; the unbearable weight of relentless suffering in Endure; and the resignation, acceptance and surrender of The Dying Light.
    The creation of the album was informed by both family and global issues: declining health in both my parents was overshadowed by ongoing wars around the world, inducing trauma in millions of people (be they defender, aggressor, or innocent) while the growing environmental crisis inflicts damage on the very world we inhabit, cracking the fabric of our survival systems.
    Despite all of this, Trauma seeks and finds light in the darkness, and great beauty and joy in the midst of despair. The album is ultimately a celebration of the acceptance that in this huge universe we can dream of better and transcend our travails.
    Nietzsche wrote “What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”. Perhaps that is what truly makes us human?
    3 min

About Banco de Gaia

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Banco De Gaia has been performing and releasing for over 25 years now, along the way becoming one of the music industry’s most maverick innovators. His legacy is as glittering as it is diverse, ranging from Hollywood film sound credits to the critically acclaimed ‘Last Train to Lhasa’, first released in 1995 to a rapturous reception. His live act still packs out venues and festivals all over the world, with audio-visual performances renowned for their explosive, cutting edge quality: from sampling wizardry fused with haunting vocals and poignant acoustics to genre-hopping musical instrumentals, all accompanied by socially engaged visuals.