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Sigur Ros - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do Audio CD

A fair review of the Sigur Ros "Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Sigur Ros reviews here, or go back to the Sigur Ros tabs.

Sigur Ros Band: Sigur Ros
Title: Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-04-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ba Ba 2: Ti Ki 3: Di Do

Overindulgent but not without merit
Mildly successful mini experiment feels a little to weirdly strained or self-absorbed at times to truly bring out what they were striving for but still contains enough splintered beauty to pick and choose your moments.


A Needed Clarificatrion for Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do...
I've read several of the reviews here that both liked and did not like this album, but there was one thing in common with ALL of them. . No one seemed to know the origins of the album. In the case of Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do, that is the single most important thing in understanding/appreciating the music. CONTEXT.

American choreographer Merce Cunningham made a dance piece / ballet entitled "Split Sides. " The idea was that there were two lighting arrangements, two soundtracks, two of everything that could be interchanged from one half of the show to the other. He got Sigur Ros to write half of the music (Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do), and he got Radiohead to write the other half (music they chose not to release). The music was a collaborative effort with cunningham and his choreography, so it follows a logical progression, much like the build-up in (), albeit a much shorter trip.

Given this knowledge, I found Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do to be rather amazing. From the first notes of the ballerina music box in Ba Ba, I was captivated.

Hope this helped.


Be careful with this one.
Be careful with this one. I read the review on here where it said to synch these up, and since I don't know how to do that with a computer editing system, I listened to it the old fashioned way and made 3 copies and pushed play on 3 different stereos, with each cd on a different track. I read a review on I tunes where a guy said, that synching these up almost gave him an aneurysm, and I believe it. I listened to it tonight and I ended up curling up in a ball and just holding my ears and wishing for it to stop. It is not that it is bad, it is just grating. Their is a portion at the end of the third track that has this really high pitched distorted noise with all of these voices talking in different places.

So if you play these together, which I suggest you do, be careful. This has the potential to drive you crazy for a short while. And the thing is, if you do it like I did it, it can be done over and over again just by pushing play on the one that ends first, as soon as a track on another stereo begins, so you can keep it going as long as you'd like and play it in any way you want. So you get a different perspective of sound when you listen to the same track on a different set of speakers and so on.

It has a wind up sound at the beginning and end of the tracks along with a tinkling sound like when you listen to a snow globe, so I think that is the way that this is meant to be thought of. You can kind of listen to it as much as you want and it seems like it is not necessarily meant to have a definite end. This is very unconventional and also very frightening at times because you can get lost in it at times and lose track of time and place. And that accompanied with the noise at the end of track three kind of make you feel like you are going insane. It is both a transcending and frightening listen. Enjoy but proceed with caution. .


Listen Again
In order to fully appreciate this EP, you need to combine all three songs into one track (I used cooledit). At first listen this sounds like very simplistic and un-Sigur Ros-like. Once you do this you can see its a multi-layered and beautiful piece of work.


A medicre CD by a great band


This is a great band, but this CD is mediocre - well beneath their level of ability. I agree with the other reviewer. There might be something to this CD I'm missing - was it a soundtrack? Was it intended as background music for another project?

It's not *bad*, and I don't dislike it. But the album is thin, and it's not near as complex as their other stuff. It makes nice ambient background music, but it's not much to listen to on its own.

I very much like this band, so I would suggest buying one of their other CDs. My favorites are Recycle Bin, (), and Takk.


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