Banco de Gaia
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Banco de Gaia | |
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Origin | England |
Genres | Techno, downtempo, electronic |
Years active | 1989 | –present
Members | Toby Marks |
Past members |
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Website | www |
Banco de Gaia is an English electronic music project, formed in 1989 by Toby Marks (born 1964,[citation needed] South London, England).
The music of Banco de Gaia is mostly categorized as
History
In 1978, Marks began his musical career as a drummer in a heavy metal band.
Marks moved to Portugal in 1986 and played
Having cut his teeth on the early 1990s ambient dub compilations, in 1994 he released his first studio album Maya on the
In 1997, Marks put together a five-piece band that included Ted Duggan (drums), Ashley Hopkins (bass), Larry Whelan (wind synth, saxophone and ethnic flutes), and Gary Spacey-Foot (percussion and saxophones). The band reduced in number to just Marks, Duggan and Hopkins in 1999, and then just Marks and Duggan from 2000 until 2003, when Marks went back to being a solo artist.
On 20 September 2009, Marks played an album launch show for his album Memories Dreams Reflections at Dingwalls in London. This show was to celebrate 20 years of Banco de Gaia. Marks was joined on stage by three members from the original five-piece band: Hopkins, Whelan and Duggan and vocalist Maya Preece, who sang on the latest album.
He released a studio album Apollo on 8 April 2013, on his own Disco Gecko Recordings.[2][3]
In 2015, Marks returned to playing with a live three-piece band, with Ted Duggan (drums)[4] and James Eller (bass).[5]
On 7 October 2016, he released his ninth studio album The 9th of Nine Hearts,[6] featuring collaborations with Sophie Barker (Zero 7), Tim Bowness (No-Man), Dick Parry (Pink Floyd) and his band.
Discography
Early cassettes
- Medium (World Bank, 1991)
- Freeform Flutes and Fading Tibetans (World Bank, 1992)
- Deep Live (World Bank, 1992)
These first three albums existed only on tape and are no longer being sold due to copyright issues with several of the samples used on them.
Albums
- Last Train to Lhasa (Planet Dog, 1995) – UK No. 31[7]
- Big Men Cry (Planet Dog, 1997)
- The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia (Six Degrees Records, 1999)
- Igizeh (Six Degrees, 2000)
- You Are Here (Six Degrees, 2004)
- Farewell Ferengistan (Six Degrees, 2006)
- Memories Dreams Reflections (2009)
- Apollo (2013)[8][9]
- Ollopa:Apollo Remixed (2013)
- Maya: 20th Anniversary Edition (2014)
- Last Train to Lhasa: 20th Anniversary Edition (2015)
- The 9th of Nine Hearts (2016)
- Big Men Cry: 20th Anniversary Edition (2017)
- The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia: 20th Anniversary Edition (2019)
- Igizeh: 20th Anniversary Edition (2020)
Live albums
- Live at Glastonbury (Planet Dog, 1996)
- Live at Glastonbury: 20th Anniversary Edition (2016)
Compilation albums
- 10 Years (2002)
- 10 Years Remixed (2003)
- Songs from the Silk Road (2011)
- Rewritten Histories Vol.1 1992 – 1995 (2011)
- Rewritten Histories Vol.2 1996 – 2001 (2012)
- Rewritten Histories Vol.3 2002 – 2013 (2014)
- 30 Times Around the Sun (2019)
- Rewritten Histories Vol.4 2013 – 2017 (2021)
- Rewritten Histories Vol.5 2017 – 2022 (2022)
- Altered Realities (2023)
EPs
- Desert Wind (1993)
- Heliopolis (1994)
- Last Train to Lhasa (1995)
- Drunk as a Monk Mixes
- I Love Baby Cheesy (1999)
- Obsidian (2000)
- Zeus No Like Techno / Gray Over Gray (2004)
- Kara Kum Remixes (2006)
- Wimble Toot (2013)
- Apollon (2013)
- All Sleeping (2013)
- For Such a Time (2013)
- Last Train to Lhasa 20th Anniversary EP (2015)
- Le Foucauld (2016)[10]
- Warp and Weft (2016)
- 91 (2017)
- The Princess and the Sky Goat (2017)
- Ages of Gaia (2019)
- Floatless (2020)
- Kintsugi (2020)
- My Little Country (2023)
References
- ^ ISBN 0-7535-0427-8.
- ^ Parsons, Gary. "Banco de Gaia – Apollo". Freq.
- ^ "Apollo: Disco Gecko; 2013". By Olga Drenda, Tiny Mixtapes.
- ^ "BADFINGER Featuring Bob Jackson Official Website". Badfingeruk.com.
- ^ "HOME". Jameseller.com.
- ^ "The 9th of Nine Hearts". Banco.co.uk. 5 October 2016.
- ^ ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ " Banco De Gaia - Apollo Review" Archived 23 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Written by Gideon Thomas Core Magazine.
- ^ "Banco De Gaia Apollo" Archived 4 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Globetronica.
- ^ "Le Foucauld, by Banco De Gaia". Banco De Gaia.