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Banco de Gaia is an electronic music band from England, formed in 1989 by Toby Marks (born 1964, South London).
The music of Banco de Gaia is best categorized as ambient dub, but Marks works to cross genres, often using Arabic and Middle Eastern samples against a bass heavy reggae, rock, or trance rhythm to produce deeply textured tracks that progress layer upon layer.[citation needed]
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History [link]
In 1978, Marks began his musical career as a drummer in a heavy metal band.
Marks moved to Portugal in 1986 and played Beatles music for tourists. He first delved into electronic music in 1989, when he bought a digital sampler. The first tune he recorded on it was called "Maxwell House."
In 1997, Banco De Gaia 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, Banco De Gaia played an album launch show for his album, Memories Dreams Reflections at Dingwalls in London. This show was to celebrate twenty 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.
Discography [link]
Early cassettes [link]
- 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 [link]
- Maya (Planet Dog, 1994) - UK #34[1]
- Last Train to Lhasa (Planet Dog, 1995) - UK #31[1]
- Big Men Cry (Planet Dog, 1997)
- The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia (1999)
- Igizeh (2000)
- You Are Here (2004)
- Farewell Ferengistan (2006)
- Memories Dreams Reflections (2009)
Live albums [link]
- Live at Glastonbury (Planet Dog, 1996)
Compilation albums [link]
- 10 Years (2002)
- 10 Years Remixed (2003)
- Songs From The Silk Road (2011)
EPs [link]
- 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)
- Echoes (22-minute version of the Pink Floyd song)
References [link]
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 41. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Banco_de_Gaia
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (German title: Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, Aniela Jaffé.
Background
In 1956 Kurt Wolff, publisher and owner of Pantheon Books, expressed a desire to publish a biography of Jung's life. Dr. Jolande Jacobi, an associate of Jung, suggested that Aniela Jaffé be the biographer.
At first, Jung was reluctant to cooperate with Jaffé, but, because of his growing conviction of the work's importance, he became engrossed in the project and began writing some of the text himself. Jung wrote the first three chapters (about his childhood and early adulthood). In the introduction to the book Aniela Jaffé noted: “One morning he informed me that he wanted to set down his recollections of his childhood directly. By this time he had already told me a good many of his earliest memories, but there were still great gaps in the story. This decision was as gratifying as it was unexpected, for I knew how great a strain writing was for Jung. At his advanced age he would not undertake anything of the sort unless he felt it was a “task” imposed on him from within.” Some time afterwards she noted down a remark of Jung’s:
Memories Dreams Reflections
Memories Dreams Reflections is an album by Banco de Gaia. It was released on September 22, 2009 on Disco Gecko.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Toby Marks, except where noted.
References
Podcasts:
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by Donna Hughes
Memories & Dreams
by: Donna HughesI used to see my Daddy every day
He used to race me in the Carolina sun
Back when he was a young man
And he could plow the fields until the day was done
Mama played piano for the choir
Every Sunday afternoon she cooked my favorite things
After church we rode a dozen miles
On old forgotten pathways, now overgrown with trees
Chorus: Home is not the same place that it was
Time goes by andchanges everything
I left so many things behind me
My favorite things I took away
Were my memories and my dreams
Everything I rode would fly
In the woods by the river, and through the fields of hay
Stirring dust and making noise
Across a homemade finish line now lost and gone away
Remember that old dog we used to have
Laying on the front porch when it rained
Sometimes I really miss my old best friend
Buried over in the field where we used to play