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’91’ celebrates the ‘magical era of rave culture’ in the heady and halcyon days of the early ‘90s, and contemplates how much has changed in the 25 years since - not just the scene and the music, but the lives of those involved. Cue mining of sonics from that era, a lush Banco de Gaia production update and a minor key melancholic feel that has gained early support since the release of the criticall...

Banco De Gaia’s new single, featuring soundcloud.com/sophiebarkermusic (Zero 7) on vocals, is ’91’, the upbeat 4/4 stand-out track from autumn’s ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ album. ’91’ celebrates the ‘magical era of rave culture’ in the heady and halcyon days of the early ‘90s, and contemplates how much has changed in the 25 years since - not just the scene and the music, but the lives of those invol...

Banco De Gaia’s new single, featuring soundcloud.com/sophiebarkermusic (Zero 7) on vocals, is ’91’, the upbeat 4/4 stand-out track from autumn’s ‘The 9th of Nine Hearts’ album. ’91’ celebrates the ‘magical era of rave culture’ in the heady and halcyon days of the early ‘90s, and contemplates how much has changed in the 25 years since - not just the scene and the music, but the lives of those invol...

For the second single from the 'The 9th of Nine Hearts' album, I'm happy to present 'Warp and Weft', an aethereal slice of original ambient electronica, plus two fresh remixes: soundcloud.com/drtrippymusic injects a dose of his patented Punjabi Swamp medicine into the original, tripping it out a little, while soundcloud.com/continuum-2 provides a suitably stoned ambient dub version.

For the second single from the 'The 9th of Nine Hearts' album, I'm happy to present 'Warp and Weft', an aethereal slice of original ambient electronica, plus two fresh remixes: soundcloud.com/drtrippymusic injects a dose of his patented Punjabi Swamp medicine into the original, tripping it out a little, while soundcloud.com/continuum-2 provides a suitably stoned ambient dub version.

For the second single from the 'The 9th of Nine Hearts' album, I'm happy to present 'Warp and Weft', an aethereal slice of original ambient electronica, plus two fresh remixes: soundcloud.com/drtrippymusic injects a dose of his patented Punjabi Swamp medicine into the original, tripping it out a little, while soundcloud.com/continuum-2 provides a suitably stoned ambient dub version.

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

A super quick preview of my new album, originally made to soundtrack a visual mash up which you can see at https://vimeo.com/180883838

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

Banco De Gaia - No Hablo Italiano (preview) by Banco de Gaia

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

An enchanting journey through nine responses to love, Banco de Gaia's 2016 studio album features guests including Pink Floyd's Dick Parry, No-Man's Tim Bowness, The The's James Eller and Zero 7's Sophie Barker. Fusing Ambient, Psychedelia and Prog/Art Rock with the band’s traditional Electronica/World/Trance influences, each track evolves naturally into the next creating a seamless ‘album experien...

Banco De Gaia - Le Foucauld (Dr Cat Remix)(preview) by Banco de Gaia

Banco De Gaia - Le Foucauld (Ephemeral Mists Remix)(preview) by Banco de Gaia

In 1992 I saw my first tracks released on CD as part of the ‘Ambient Dub’ compilation series on Beyond Records. Six years later, when I set up my own label, one of my aims was to start a similar series of down-tempo, left of centre, compilation albums, featuring more or less anything that I found beautiful and uplifting, irrespective of genre (although leaning heavily towards the electronic). Fina...

As part of our 20th anniversary programme, my good friend soundcloud.com/drtrippymusic remixed Kuos We couldn't fit the remix on to the 4 disc boxset, so have decided to give it away instead

Saxophone by Matthew Jenkins

Banco De Gaia - Eternal Sunshine (edit) by Banco de Gaia

Banco De Gaia - For Such A Time (edit) by Banco de Gaia