I just bought "Last Train to Lhasa" by Banco de Gaia and I must now say,
Lookout kiddies, this will be big. This is no shabby 2-cd set. I'm not
good at describing music, so I'll kindly bow out of that matter, but as
far as effort and dedication put into these 2 disks by the artist (which
is admittedly a tough concept to estimate), I'd put this right up there
with FSOL's Lifeforms.
With all the recent raving about the Planet Dog comp, I doubt few people
haven't heard Banco de Gaia, but if you haven't heard them, go get this.
No synth washes, no slow crescendos of building harmonics; this is more
upbeat than that...(damn, just as I say it, this song...Kincajou (duck!
asteroid), starts to sound ambient). ANYWAY, I had a point here somewhere.
Oh. This is a huge album. In one word, Landmark.
ok, enough babbling...back to your regularly scheduled mail.
--Brian