Banco de Gaia, Igizeh - 1h 6m 47s

Tracks & Durations

1. Seti I	8:42
2. Obsidian	7:05
3. Creme Egg	5:48
4. Glove Puppet (vocal version)	4:12
5. Gizeh	9:21
6. How much reality can you take?	6:55
7. B2	6:10
8. Fake It Till You Make It	11:46
9. Sixty Sixteen (for Karina)	6:40

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Review

Toby Marks, the musical alchemist behind Banco de Gaia, made his reputation by infusing Asian and Middle Eastern musical elements into his dub mixes, resulting in a compelling world music-electronica hybrid. For Igizeh, he has further blurred the constituent genres' boundaries, softening the house beat just a bit and letting his disparate inspirations swirl into a dreamy, intoxicating sonic daydream. If that's the club's loss, it's certainly the listener's gain. Much of the album was recorded in Egypt (including segments produced inside the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Temple of Seti I at Thebes), but to his credit Marks cannily avoids many easy world music and ambient clichés; Jennifer Folkes's soulful vocals on "Obsidian" and "Glove Puppet" are not the least of the stylish balancing act between East and West presented herein. --Jerry McCulley

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