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Apollo

by Banco de Gaia

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1.
Lamentations 03:02
2.
Wimble Toot 07:59
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4.
5.
Apollon 06:40
6.
Hu! 08:39
7.
All Sleeping 09:42
8.
Oreia 06:50
9.
Acquiescence 04:15

about

For nearly two and a half decades, Banco de Gaia has been consistently redefining world electronic music, with his releases on Six Degrees making countless rotations around the globe, rousing dancefloors and winning fans along the way. In the process, the Banco name has become iconic: a hallmark and staple of
global-influenced, genre-blurring, high production values electronic music.

Apollo is Banco's first new studio album in 7 years and brings together heavy dub beats, powerful vocal arrays, and lilting melodies, drawing inspiration from both old and new schools of sonic artistry, and in doing so blending the subtle flavours of the act's historical sound with modern day techniques and ideas.

Apollo opens with the powerful and evocative Lamentations, featuring the ethereal vocals of Zhenia Mahdi-Nau, before slipping into Wimble Toot, whose initially stuttering drums and bass build into a relentless rhythm, peppered with reggae style horns and saxophone, nicely setting the scene for the foot stomping, dust raising, dancefloor rousing Eternal Sunshine.

For Such A Time is classic Banco in a 21st Century style, with its ambient pads, crisp hi-hat and dubby bassline providing a welcome respite before the tidal wave of energy and emotion that is Apollon: a bouncy blend of acoustic and electronic sounds weaved together by melodic strings and funky bass. Hu! maintains this momentum, with sultry Mediterranean inspired melodies underpinned by global beats and breaks.

All Sleeping, featuring the legendary flautist Tim Wheater, is not just a step down in tempo, but also a step down into another world, a world of dreams, a world of fantasy. Oreia winds us back into consciousness, with sinuous oud, strange counting voices, Balinese chorus and haunting Turkish clarinets. The album ends, as it began, with the engaging voice of Zhenia Mahdi-Nau gracing Acquiescence, providing an affirming coda to the very welcome return of Banco De Gaia.

credits

released April 8, 2013

All tracks written by T. Marks except Lamentations and Acquiescence, written by T. Marks and Z. Mahdi-Nau.

Additional musicians:
Lamentations: Vocals by Zhenia Mahdi-Nau
Wimble Toot: Saxophone by Matthew Jenkins
Hu!: Additional drums by Ted Duggan
All Sleeping: Flutes by Tim Wheater; Violas by Patrick Dunn; Guitar by Toby Marks
Acquiescence: Vocals by Zhenia Mahdi-Nau

Mastered by John Dent at Loud Mastering
Artwork by Dave Whitehead
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Front cover design based on "Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon" by Claude Lorrain.
Original photograph (c) 2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Used with kind permission.

Lamentations and Acquiescence originally written for Ancient Skies: www.ancientskies.info

Huge thanks to everyone who helped bring about this album, especially: Zhenia, Matthew Jenkins, Patrick Dunn, Tim Wheater, Ted Duggan, Jasper Baldhead, the eternal Dave and Sandy, John Dent, Grant Wakefield, and everyone who has continued to support me over the years. Without your live presence and online encouragement this album would never have been made.

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