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Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sigur Ros
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 19191
Format: Single, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
UPC: 724354969126
EAN: 0724354969126
ASIN: B0002BK9KS
Release Date: July 12, 2004
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 Very odd August 7, 2004
Mr. T
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
was expecting something along the lines of ( ), but these songs are very minimalist, and sometimes there doesn't seem to be much going on. But they are very beautiful and very haunting.
Refreshingly Different May 19, 2007
Mr. A. Cook (UK)
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 Agaetis 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.
Influenced by their friends September 4, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Sigur Ros are a band well known for their strange ways: strange songs and stranger videos. However, it is known to those who have bought Von Brigidi (Sigur Ros' remix of Von [like reanimation by Linkin Park])that Sigur Ros are friends with a band called Mum, who also come from Iceland. Mum are an electronica band, whose three albums so far are well known for their delightful melodies. It seems that Mum have influenced Sigur Ros and the result was this album. Songs that are long and haunting, full of electronic sounds and experiments, this is one album that you dont want to miss if you are a fan of Sigur Ros. Nothing like this has been done before the band, and whilst it follows their vein for strangeness, it shows they arent afraid to experiment. A brilliant album, well worth a buy.
Warning! contains strange noises January 7, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album is good, but, as a previous reveiwer has said, doesn't sound like Sigur Ros.
However, my friend hated it. He disliked the strange 'unscrewing' sounds and the disjointed sample of 'Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do' at the end of the album. So either take the risk (it's only 5), or hear it before buying.
Fantasticly Brillient! June 2, 2006
R. Whittaker
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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