Banco de Gaia

Banco de Gaia

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Banco de Gaia episodes

  • Banco De Gaia - My Little Country (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 - Draig Ddu (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 - War (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 & Future Pasts - A Bee Song (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 - Mir (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 - Mir (Marine Boy Sub Aqua Remix)(preview)
    Ahead of the release of my new album, I'm proud to present Mir, a paean to peace in these tumultuous times.
    Featuring the sublime soprano saxophone of Matthew Jenkins, Mir's spacious sounds bring to mind both early Floyd and the Soviet Space Station of the same name. Accompanying the original are two remixes: a sunrise special from Sheffield's soundcloud.com/darklyam and an acid house banger by Marine Boy.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Mir (Darkly A.M. Remix)(preview)
    Ahead of the release of my new album, I'm proud to present Mir, a paean to peace in these tumultuous times.
    Featuring the sublime soprano saxophone of Matthew Jenkins, Mir's spacious sounds bring to mind both early Floyd and the Soviet Space Station of the same name. Accompanying the original are two remixes: a sunrise special from Sheffield's soundcloud.com/darklyam and an acid house banger by Marine Boy.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - Mir (preview)
    Ahead of the release of my new album, I'm proud to present Mir, a paean to peace in these tumultuous times.
    Featuring the sublime soprano saxophone of Matthew Jenkins, Mir's spacious sounds bring to mind both early Floyd and the Soviet Space Station of the same name. Accompanying the original are two remixes: a sunrise special from Sheffield's soundcloud.com/darklyam and an acid house banger by Marine Boy.
    3 min
  • Banco de Gaia & Future Pasts - A Bee Song (preview)
    Based on a traditional Damara (Namibian) song that praises the honey bee, A Bee Song brings Banco de Gaia together with the Future Pasts project to create an uplifting and vibrant track full of life and humanity. With an infectious groove and a buzzing bassline, the track is guaranteed to get heads nodding and feet moving.
    The motivation for this re-composition was to bring an indigenous praise song, recorded in 1954 and archived by Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland, to a contemporary audience as a way of supporting Damara cultural heritage in Namibia. As few people survive who remember the old songs and dances, the hope is that through this collaboration, and the wider Future Pasts project, this musical heritage will live on.
    A Bee Song is taken from the forthcoming album Trauma, due for release in September 2024, with pre-orders starting next Friday, 3rd May.
    Composite image of |Giribes plains, north-west of Sesfontein, created by Sian Sullivan and Mike Hannis from aerial photographs, Directorate of Survey and Mapping, Windhoek.
    3 min
  • Banco De Gaia - My Little Country (Instrumental)(preview)
    When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember seeing a TV programme about a guy who declared that an old naval platform somewhere off the coast of England was his own country.
    Many years later I was asked to contribute to the Outlaw Oceans project and thought this was a perfect subject for a track. As I don’t really do 70’s retro, apart from the odd prog rock cover, I decided to work the 70’s-style narrator’s voice into a retro 90’s sounding track. Sadly the initiative ran into complications and the release was pulled.
    As I found it an amusing project to work on, I never gave up on the track, and my friend soundcloud.com/simonpowermusic, who was also knocking out dance tracks in the early 90’s as Marine Boy, fancied having a go at a remix and went suitably retro on it. Then, sticking with the 90’s theme, I asked soundcloud.com/robhenry from soundcloud.com/childrenofthebong, who toured with me a few times in that era, to have a go and he came up with a lovely deep dub of the track.
    I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane as much as we have, or at least find the ridiculousness of it all entertaining!
    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.