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Ba Ba/Ti Ki/Di Do | 
| Artist: Sigur Ros
Label: Fat Cat
Category: Music
Buy New: £13.29
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 155016
Format: Single, Enhanced, Cd+dvd, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498619100
EAN: 0602498619100
ASIN: B0001LYFZY
Release Date: March 23, 2004
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 Not minimalist at all! June 5, 2008
This short CD (20 minutes) is quite deceiving. It does indeed sound minimalist when you play it from start to end but there's more to this release than meets the eye (or the ear in this case). In fact, the three tracks are really one track deconstructed into three separate pieces.
After a little digging around I discovered that all three tracks, if played at the same time, form an amazing single track!
Despite the tracks being different lengths they bond together really well. The only way to play 3 tracks at the same time is to rip them to your computer and use an audio editing program to recompile them; each track starts from the same point, so line them up at the very beginning and rip into an uncompressed format to eliminate any added silence.
The result of this is an amazing, full, non-minimalist Sigur Ros track.
Absolutely excellent and unique. Getting more involved with what a band has to offer makes me like them even more.
Refreshingly Different May 19, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For Sigur Ros, this is rather different. You're probably getting sick of hearing that now, but it's true. Aside from the last track, in which there are excerpts of words, this is an instrumental CD. But it is in a completely different style to the intrumental tracks on (); as other reviewers have said, it seems almost experimental.
I have reviewed each of the tracks seperately below for people that have the time to get a better feel for the CD. Of course, the best way to get a feel for it would be to borrow it off someone else and listen to it first, to see if it's your cup of tea.
Ba Ba 5/5
This track begins beautifully. A few tinkles of bells or chimes of some sort, along with sounds of rustling or breezing air. A repeated melody fades in until about 2:00, when a keyboard plays chords and notes. This continues in a loop for a while before going off into a short piano melody accompanied by squeaks and synth. The track then quietens, before the piano chords bring the song back piece by piece.
This induces the image of a winterscape in my mind. The noises at the start make me think of water dripping from melting icicles. It really is a beautiful song.
Ti Ki 4/5
While I feel this is the 'weakest' song on the CD, it is still fantastic. It carries on from the end of Ba Ba with out-of-time chimes and bells, with quiet thumps and rustling in the background. This continues up until around 2:00 again, at which point the rustling becomes louder and consistent, and the beeps become elongated and sharper. Then the rhythmic beeping fades in. The first time I heard this, I cringed; it sounds so harsh compared to the rest of the sounds, and seems to break up the song. However, after about a minute of this, an amazing keyboard melody comes in which drowns out the beeping. This only lasts for 15 seconds or so, but is then continued shortly after. The song continues like this, with the keyboard melodies coming in every now and then, over the top of the consistent beeping, chiming and rustling in the background. It really is an eerie song, but simply incredible.
The repeated beeps of noise puts images and thoughts in my mind of trying to wake up with the alarm clock going off, but rolling over and ignoring it, plunging yourself into the dream world once more.
Di Do 5/5
Out of all three tracks on this album, I'd say this one is the least 'Sigur Ros-like'. It begins with a rumbling sound, a sound similar to a fly's wings and the sound of rushing air which slowly gets louder and louder. Then the dis-jointed excerpts of the CD's title come in. At first it just sounds completely random, and disorganised. But then around 2:30 it all slots together and a background beat, chord sequence and melody comes in which serves to intensify the atmosphere. It continues for about a minute at which point some really 'horrible' sounds come in, sort of like static, nails being drawn down a blackboard kind of sound. This continues and fades to the end.
This song induces images of a space mission launch. The rushing noise of air and rumbling being the launch sequence, and then the slow fading of those noises and the inclusion of the background melody, beat and chords symbolising the exiting of Earth's atmosphere and the entry into space.
So overall, it is very different to Sigur Ros' other stuff (I have (), Takk, and have listened to a few songs off of Agætis Byrjun). However, it works. Extremely well.
I'd like to thank the other reviewers of this CD, as their ratings were the inspiration behind purchasing this CD.
 Ba ba ba April 22, 2007
Sigur Ros is one of those blindingly good bands that occasionally churns out something... not so good. Not bad, but far from good. Sadly that is the case with "Ba Ba/Ti Ki/Di Do," a simplistic little soundtrack EP that sounds pretty, but doesn't inspire a second listen. Heck, it didn't even inspire a title.
"Ba Ba" is perhaps the prettiest song on here, a coldly delicate little synth melody that slips back to where it began, on an ambient loop. After some babbly vocals, "Ti Ki" debuts with a cracked, disjointed sound, followed by the wavery, eerie "Di Do."
Created for the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, this EP may be better if you watch people dancing as you listen. It's somewhat like Sigur Ros's previous work, but somehow it feels more simplistic and sloppy, as if it were slapped together quickly.
Jonsi's falsetto vocals are pleasant, even when he utters baby noises. Backing him are a bunch of experimental samples -- a robotic voice, bells, music boxes, clock gears, and so on. They definitely have the makings of brilliance, but they also overwhelm the delicate ambient melodies. The experimental tracks never quite gel.
Perhaps the worst thing is that Sigur Ros's elusive, almost elfin emotions seem to be missing. The songs of "Ba Ba/Ti Ki/Di Do" are definitely interesting and offbeat, but it's not great. They dart very close to the musical grandeur from "( )" and "Agaetis Byrjun," but fall just short because of a lack of musical focus.
The die-hard Sigur Ros fans may want to give this a spin. "Ba Ba/Ti Ki/Di do" is an interesting EP, but by a truly excellent band like Sigur Ros, this blurry collection feels like a bit of a letdown.
Some of their finest composition April 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This set of three pieces comissioned for Merce Cunningham's coreography is amongst the most beautiful of the icelandic group's work. They eschew the commerciality of albums like "Takk" and "Agaetis Byrjun" in a return to their minimalist heritage. They combine the use of noises with dramatic dynamics and repetitive motifs in a way that is beautiful and strange: Think "Von" meets "()" yet much more emotional and charming.
Track 1, "Ba ba", is probably the least original, it reminds me very much of Steve Reich's compositions for tuned percussion. However, they manage to achieve an emotional connection with the listener that Reich could only dream of.
Track 2, "Ti Ki" is far less structured than its companions, and may requires a few listens to see the pattern of their composition emerge. The most subtle track on the record, it helps to bind the beauty of "Ba Ba" with the noise of "Di do".
track 3, "Di do" is the only piece to extensively feature the human voice (Merce Cunningham's). It is a very short and dramatic work which builds up into a frenzy - much like songs on "Agaetis" and "Takk", yet the use of glorious white-noise is more like "Von"... This means that in one very short track, sigur ros manage to explain the many disparate threads in their music.
The CD is only 20ish minutes long - not much "bang for your buck", but every second is brilliance. It is like a mini-guide to the rest of their work. I would have loved to see how this came accross in performance with the dancers, and radiohead etc... As one extra bonus, the sleeve art has some of Merce Cunningham's bizzare choreographic notation feintly scrawled over the outside.
Lovely!
Fantasticly Brillient! June 2, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
ok so at first this doesn't sound like your typical sigur ros (if there is such a thing as 'typical' when it comes to sigur ros). However... this 20 minute cd is truely awsome. my friend described it as being in a beautiful dream and not wanting to wake up... my favourite track is 'di do' purely because it is so abstract and sounds alot like a mike oldfield piece, On the whole 10/10 sigur... you cease to amaze! i would deffinatly recomend this to anybody.
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