Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
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Free Music Review: Nice little treasure.
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a very interesting release for Sigur Ros. Completely different from their two full lengths, but that's good isn't it? We don't want bands making the same album a bunch of times. (Not that the first two were "the same" really). This is entirely instrumental, and much more minimal and abstract than the other albums.
"Ba Ba" gradually materializes from silence with a gentle, ethereal, keyboard melody, which keeps unfolding to reveal more little melodies of music boxes winding up, bells, and pianos. It really evokes a magical kind of dream-like atmosphere in the clouds. I think this track really flows the best and sounds the fullest, sounds like it could be from ().
"Ti Ki" has more music box sounds and odd repetitive electronic dings. very sparse for a while then really builds up.
The last track "Di Do" is kind of creepy, with strange mangled robotic voices repeating the song titles, and swooshing noises, but actually evolves into a good rhythm for a while until the song is tortured and distorted to the point where it is pretty much random experimental noise. This is probably one of the most bizarre songs I've ever heard .
I admit, I probably won't listen to this very often, but it was a very worthwhile purchase for the collection. Fans of the Icelandic band Mum will probably dig this album, as it sounds more like Mum than Sigur Ros. Sometimes I think i'm listening to Mum rather than Sigur Ros, usually on the second song. They had to get some inspiration from them, it sounds so similar. It also reminds me slightly of Aphex Twin, and very slightly of Ulver, mostly on the "Quick fix of melancholy" EP. You should definitely check out Mum and Ulver's electronic music if you enjoy this.
Free Music Review: pretty and surprising...
Hit: 4 Stars
Completely different from everything else I've heard from Sigur Ros, this EP comes off more as an ambient expirament than a new focused effort. No vocals (aside from samples) or discernable melodies. Instead, the songs on Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do seem more intent on generating hypnotic layers of pretty blips and clicks. It's a great deal more subtle than their other work.
It reminds me of the more hypnotic tracks off of Mum's "yesterday was dramatic, today is ok" album, or practically anything off the Raymond Scott LP "soothing sounds for baby," which was basically a similar (albeit slightly less accesible) set of playful, child-music...
I love the direction of this EP, but if fans are looking for something similar to Aegetis Burgeum or Untitled, they could be in for a dissapointment. I admit that I was looking for more of the slow, brooding builds and peaks topped with the signature phonetic "outlandish" singing style of Untitled 1, but ended up feeling pleasantly surprised by the completely different direction.
Hopefully you will too.
Free Music Review: Good Song
Hit: 4 Stars
Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do is a wonderful twenty-minute electronic ballad. I've seen reviews that say it is repetitive, but no more so than a chorus is within a single song. I think people try to read it as three separate pieces because it's broken into three tracks, but it's not intended be read as such - it's a cohesive work. And it's not the same as their full length album work either. They took a different direction with this piece, which is what real artists do. It's frustrating to see the reviews that say this single lacks everything that Sigur Rós is about and expect Sigur Rós to just rehash the same old stuff like so many popular bands would do. But anyway, to give an idea of the sound, those who appreciate Múm, another Icelandic group, would likely enjoy this single. Any Sigur Rós fan that appreciates artistic expression would also probably like it.Free Music Review: In preparation for their next album...
Hit: 4 Stars
Far from being a bad album, but definitely not their best work so far, Sigur Ros warm up for their next full length album coming later in 2004 with the work in this 3-single-long EP. Minimalist chimes, spacey loops and overall, a more atmospheric sound than their preceeding productions 'Ba Ba / Ti Ki / Di Do' (so named after the three songs that make it up) is a highly enjoyable work, and one that constitutes both, a natural next step after the brilliant '()', and a move by the Icelandic crew in perfect sync with the post-rock musical times. At over 20 minutes of duration, with a solid opening and closing track, this EP can either be a perfect opener or wrap-up for the experience of listening to the soundtrack of 'Lost in Translation', with which it shares many common traits. I give it four stars only for the second song, that I found a bit weaker than the other two.
Free Music Review: Dance
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a recording of music that Sigur Ros did for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and was performed in New York City in October 2003. Radiohead was also involved in this performance. It's twenty minutes of music. There are three instrumental songs. This is probably the most abstract music Sigur Ros has done. The music is very ambient and evocative. It's mostly bell sounds, music boxes, and percussion. It's a chill out record most definitely. I was listening to it on a long drive to Northern California with my friend from France. It was very striking and very much a mood maker, while seeing the mountains near San Jose. The use of music boxes makes it almost like music about childhood. Sigur Ros is always interesting.