Big Men Cry

Artist: Banco de Gaia
Label: Mammoth
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 035498016318
EAN: 0035498016318
ASIN: B000004AYD

Release Date: 1997-07-08

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Tracks:

Drippy
Celestine
Drunk as a Monk - Banco de Gaia, Banco de Gaia, Banco de Gaia
Big Men Cry
Gates Does Windows
One Billion Miles Out
Starstation Earth

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Customer Reviews:

Tremendously Imaginitive and Inspired Album.......2004-12-27

This album is thoughtful and complex. The tracks start out simply and innocently enough, slightly timid and shy, and before you know you it, you're drawn into a sonic landscape and not only unfolds infront of you, but pulls you into its vortex.

The music is enraging, engaging, emotional, and spiritual. This album has it all, and clearly one of my all time favorites.

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Banco's best.......2001-07-13

In my opinion this is Banco's most mature album. Out of all that he has crafted Big Men Cry is a superlative experience. First half appears upbeat. Then it's through the looking glass.

The only reason I can see why the comparisons made to Pink Floyd is track 2. The presence of saxophone and the sound of the synth do indeed remind one of the Wish You Were Here `floyd. Yet there's so much more happening. Pink Floyd could only wish for such a beautiful piece. So in no way is it a negative that Banco's creating such a wonderful sound. Anyway as I say there's so much more. The title track - when I first heard it - sounds as if you'll sure someone else wrote it. It is a classic piece. Short, serene, sad and watery is how I can best describe it...an oriental water garden with strings. Very moving. Starstation Earth is a delicate piece which gives a brilliant ending. Subtle melody and an breathtaking synth solo before the beat arrives 5 minutes before the end.

Big Men Cry is a lot more `airy' then other works by Banco. Much bigger environments to lose yourself and yet introspective as well. Brilliantly recorded. To sum up I would heartily recommend this to anyone wanting to do an emotional travelin'

World beat fluff..........1999-11-26

Definively inferior to Banco de Gaia's previous work, this is nothing else than fake world music with some techno-electronic beats thrown in. It must be said that Drippy, the first track is a trully great opener, but the rest of the stuff is pure dissapointment.

Less techno/electronica - more for ambient music fans!.......1999-08-24

Personally, I found this album to be my favorite from Banco de Gaia. More ambient and mellow than his other works, I feel that "Big Men Cry" contains much more depth than the other albums and expands onto more creative grounds. The songs "Celestine" and "Big Men Cry" are both masterpieces yet very different from each other. True, this is an album that is more for the mind than for the feet, but maybe Banco de Gaia wanted to create a more introspective and atmospheric album this time around.

Not his best.......1998-11-20

After the excellent 'Last Train to Lhasa' and 'Maya', Banco da Gaya looses strength and breadth and at times comes across as pastiche Pink Floyd (which they themselves are more than capable of). Get his previous work but don't assume that this album will move you to the same degree.

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