Last Train to Lhasa

Infobox Album
Name = Last Train to Lhasa
Type = Studio album
Artist = Banco de Gaia


Released = 1995
Recorded = ???
Genre = Trance
Length = 120:55 143:20 (limited edition)
Label = Mammoth Records/Planet Dog Records
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9men97bkkrjt link]
Last album = "Maya" (1994)
This album = "Last Train to Lhasa" (1995)
Next album = "Live at Glastonbury" (1996)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Limited triple-CD edition
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = Cover from limited triple-CD edition

"Last Train to Lhasa" is a double CD by Banco de Gaia which was released in 1995 (there was also a single-disc version). A "Special Limited Edition Triple CD" contained three additional remixes.

The album's techno and ambient compositions contain sampled chantings of the people of Tibet.

Influence

After a big success of the debut album "Maya" and a European tour with Transglobal Underground Toby Marks travelled the world collecting inspirations. He joined The Tibet Support Group, a part of International Tibet Independence Movement. As a response to the Chinese government's decision to build a railway track to Lhasa, the heart and traditional capital of Chinese occupied Tibet, in 1995 Marks recorded a 12-minute long track with looped chants from Tibet. It soon appeared to be a start for the whole project, eventually creating a new album. As Marks said, "the compositions were made as a result of political and human sensitivity".

"Amber" contains a sampled line: "My god, it's full of stars..." from the Stanley Kubrick movie "".

Track listing

Disc one

# "Last Train to Lhasa" – 11:44
# "Kuos" – 6:56
# "China (Clouds Not Mountains)" – 7:30
# "Amber" – 7:34
# "Kincajou" – 6:48
# "White Paint" – 6:05
# "887 (Structure)" – 14:17

Disc two

# "Kuos (Gnomes Mix)" – 11:19
# "Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid)" – 36:09
# "Eagle (Small Steppa Mix)" – 12:33

Disc three (of the limited edition)

# "China (Follow The Red Brick Road)" – 9:30
# "Amber (Insect Intelligence)" – 10:23
# "887 (Darkside Return)" – 22:32

ingles

"Last Train To Lhasa"

# "Last Train To Lhasa (Radio Edit)"
# "Last Train To Lhasa (Album Version)"
# "Last Train To Lhasa (Ambient Version)"

"Kincajou"

# "Kincajou (Oliver Lieb Remix)"
# "Kincajou (Here Come the Norse Gods)"
# "Kincajou (Speedy J Remix)"
# "Kincajou (Album Version)"

ee also

*Tibet
*Music of Tibet
*International Tibet Independence Movement
*Free Tibet Campaign in London
*Students for a Free Tibet
*Central Tibetan Administration

External links

* [http://www.banco.co.uk/tibet/ Toby Marks' Reflections on Tibet]