For nearly three and a half decades, Banco de Gaia has been consistently re… Read Full Bio ↴For nearly three and a half decades, Banco de Gaia has been consistently redefining world electronica, with his music leaving an indelible footprint on the global scene, sparking many a dancefloor and inspiring countless musicians to follow. His sound has been at the forefront of blending acoustic and electronic sounds, integrating themes and techniques from cultures and traditions the world over, and along the way he has worked with musicians and producers as ingenious and diverse as Pink Floyd’s Dick Parry, Natacha Atlas, Tim Wheater, Eat Static, Zion Train and Paul Horn – to name just a few.
The first releases of Banco de Gaia, or Toby Marks, were on the early 90’s Ambient Dub compilations that spawned a thousand “chill out” albums. Planet Dog Records released his first album, Maya, in 1994, which received a Mercury Music Prize award nomination, and followed it in 1995 with Last Train To Lhasa, which hit #1 in numerous charts in the UK and abroad, and found a home in many DJ’s selections, including the legendary Sasha and Digweed.
The next decade saw the release of a handful of classic albums: Big Men Cry, The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia, Igizeh, You Are Here and Farewell Ferengistan, with Drippy from Big Men Cry featuring in Darren Aronofsky’s cult film Pi.
Banco de Gaia’s music was never about sitting in recording studios only, though. He is known as well for his numerous live performances and ability to energize a dancefloor. His performance history is as diverse as it is extensive, from performing solo with a laptop to using racks of hardware accompanied by a team of live musicians and other artists, such as video artist Mik Findlay. Two Thousand and Four, a DVD cataloguing the video shows, was released as a collector’s item in 2005.
2007 was a notable year for Banco De Gaia, who performed and recorded a 23 minute cover version of Echoes by Pink Floyd, featuring live guitar, video, and electronic manipulation. Further cover tracks were eventually featured on the first of two discs that made up the retrospective Memories Dreams Reflections, with the cover of Hawkwind’s Spirit of the Age resulting in performing alongside them during their 40th anniversary tour.
In April 2013, Banco De Gaia released his first new studio album in 7 years, called Apollo. This album contained nine completely original Banco De Gaia compositions which ran the gamut of electronic music, encapsulating ambient, dub, tribal and gypsy, techno, trance and breakbeat.
The first releases of Banco de Gaia, or Toby Marks, were on the early 90’s Ambient Dub compilations that spawned a thousand “chill out” albums. Planet Dog Records released his first album, Maya, in 1994, which received a Mercury Music Prize award nomination, and followed it in 1995 with Last Train To Lhasa, which hit #1 in numerous charts in the UK and abroad, and found a home in many DJ’s selections, including the legendary Sasha and Digweed.
The next decade saw the release of a handful of classic albums: Big Men Cry, The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia, Igizeh, You Are Here and Farewell Ferengistan, with Drippy from Big Men Cry featuring in Darren Aronofsky’s cult film Pi.
Banco de Gaia’s music was never about sitting in recording studios only, though. He is known as well for his numerous live performances and ability to energize a dancefloor. His performance history is as diverse as it is extensive, from performing solo with a laptop to using racks of hardware accompanied by a team of live musicians and other artists, such as video artist Mik Findlay. Two Thousand and Four, a DVD cataloguing the video shows, was released as a collector’s item in 2005.
2007 was a notable year for Banco De Gaia, who performed and recorded a 23 minute cover version of Echoes by Pink Floyd, featuring live guitar, video, and electronic manipulation. Further cover tracks were eventually featured on the first of two discs that made up the retrospective Memories Dreams Reflections, with the cover of Hawkwind’s Spirit of the Age resulting in performing alongside them during their 40th anniversary tour.
In April 2013, Banco De Gaia released his first new studio album in 7 years, called Apollo. This album contained nine completely original Banco De Gaia compositions which ran the gamut of electronic music, encapsulating ambient, dub, tribal and gypsy, techno, trance and breakbeat.
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Banco De Gaia Lyrics
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887 (Structure) (...) (...) potato (...)…
Amber (...) My god, it's full of stars! Sample from 2010: The …
Frog's Dinner suelta te el pelo dame esa boquita como un buen caramelo mam…
Glove Puppet Can we stop now all our arguments? Can we end now…
Glove Puppet - Vocal Version Can we stop now all our arguments? Can we end now…
Gray Over Gray Our subconscious leading our intentions Where the light ends…
Kincajou (...) Let's try a new rhythm! (...)…
Lai Lah (...) I love it.…
Obsidian There's a pulsating white light but it's beautiful It's lik…
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vizor1
There are only few songs, that I will never forget. This is one of them, one of the most beautiful ambient trakcs ever.
Laura Mendonça
I heard this song at the beginnig of the movie ''Now is good''. It's kinda psychedelic... amazing *.*
charlierom
lovely song!!!
HorridFroth
What a tune...even after 15 years. Amazing video too, considering there were only 486DX machines and hacked copies of 3D Studio to play with in 'them days...' ;o)
Mark Lawton
Who said electronic music has no soul?.Beautiful
Kiera G
This track has haunted me for the last 20 years!!! Found it one happy day on the Loved Up soundtrack.
This is as high as psychedelics can get
GOLDBLAZER
This song is divine! It is on a rare CD called "Ambient dub vol. 1" Search on E-bay etc. Happy hunting! =)
Tidpole
Best Electronic tune out there
MONSTERXRELICTORE
I remember listening to Banco de gaia on mushrooms ..late night third eye opening
ecopunk66
Ive loved banco music since 93, this is just so timeless!