Shpongle - Beija Flor - TranceAddict Forums

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Album Reviews / New Releases Discussion
-- Shpongle - Beija Flor
Pages (2): [1] 2 »

Posted by mndeg on Jun-11-2004 03:40:

Shpongle - Beija Flor

why is this song so random?
female vocals
then a guy making monkey sounds
then 'latin' sounding music

Posted by vhx1 on Jun-11-2004 04:49:

YOu'd have to understand the producers behind sphongle. THis is not your average trance track. more on the side of psychadelic

Posted by Tatsu on Jun-11-2004 06:53:

Is it a new track? Where from?

But vhx1 is right, Shpongle is more complex than normal music.

Posted by DJ Cinos on Jun-11-2004 07:58:

I think it's kind of the idea.

Posted by speedracer_mec on Jun-11-2004 13:21:

quote:
Originally posted by vhx1
YOu'd have to understand the producers behind sphongle. THis is not your average trance track. more on the side of psychadelic

trance?

lol

this shit i classify as GOA PROG

simply amazin

Posted by shoXx on Jun-11-2004 13:32:

I worship this song!

Posted by mndeg on Jun-11-2004 16:39:

so goa justifies a guy yelling random monkey sounds huh
hmmmmmmm

i know shpongle always has random chopped up vocals but monkey sounds lol

Posted by kanaalborrel on Jun-13-2004 06:43:

I'm listening to the song for the first time right now.

Did you know "Beija Flor" means "humming bird" in Portugese, it literally means "Kiss Flower"? So that explains the bird sounds in the beginning...

It also is the name of the most popular Carnaval group in Rio de Janeiro, it's somewhat like a soccer team, they won the famous parade for the last two years: the middle samba part is sampled from the 2003 theme song of their participation in the parade, and featured on the so-called Enredo CD of Brazil, which is released every year with Carnaval.

Strangest track man; it even has 3/4 measures instead of 4-to-the-floor!!! I think I like it, not sure though

Kanaal

Posted by countach on Jun-22-2004 22:38:

This song is totally sick and amazing. It moves and changes like a rollercoaster travel.

It's terrible, lots of fresh air and a wonderful ending.

It is the last song in the new Antony Papa's Balance 006 CD2.

Posted by YO-I on Jun-22-2004 22:45:

i am a house fantic but this track is one of the best for this moment, i love this buty.

YO-i

Posted by Jakhira on Jun-23-2004 00:09:

This is seriously weird, even for Shpongle. The A-side kicks ass but this is song to lose your mind to. I can understand trance-lovers not liking this...

Posted by mndeg on Jun-23-2004 08:23:

anybody know anything about the guitar part at the end?

Posted by biznology on Jun-23-2004 08:37:

shpongle is a shitty jam band like Phish - but unlike Phish I enjoy em|

Posted by malek on Jul-06-2004 22:42:

this is an amazing track... can't get enough of it!!!!

looking forward to hear it on a big ass system inside a club!!!!!!!!!

i'll orgasm!

Posted by m0sh on Jul-06-2004 23:24:

I love it and I really need more stuff like the last part of the track (from 7mins, the samba)

Posted by mndeg on Aug-28-2004 01:47:

2nd above comment

Posted by Torley Wong on Aug-28-2004 06:19:

I think this is the type of music that you may find unsettling and unusual at first, but much repeated listening will gradually acclimate you to these types of sounds. It reminds me of how certain great classical composers from the West, once exposed to the traditional East Indian scales and modes and the structures put forth by a practitioner of the artform such as Ravi Shankar, strove to understand and weave this new cultural fabric into their own tunes. Or, to use another example: not unlike Bartok taking the folk music of his travels and fusing that into his own tapestry:

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/bartok.html

I do believe playing Ibizan anthems for the aboriginal peoples of some lands would have them very restless indeed, and full of questions! Full circle we go, a type of cyber-shamanism.

In modern times, Simon and Raja of Shpongle are well known for their use of clashing traditional flute music and electronic beats, mixing up time signatures -- dizzyingly at times -- and other techniques as gate effecting to increase hypnotism and beat morphing where the beats go from straightlaced in one bar to swinging and gr00vy in the next 8, or 16.

This is kind of music you might go:

"HOLY CRAP! THIS IS WACK-ASS!"

before settling into a more euclidean mode. Maybe, maybe not.

But either way,

Ahhh... the wonder of music.

Posted by mndeg on Aug-28-2004 15:02:

are there any other songs like it

Posted by 1082sosay on Aug-29-2004 02:56:

great track! the monkey sounds dont belong in the track imo but given its raja ram and mr bosford, anything goes i guess. i agree with with everyone who said that the spanish guitars in the end are just great for the track. i love hearing the guitars come in after those vocals. if anyone know what the vocals are or mean during the guitar sequence, please share. thanks.

Posted by SMC on Aug-29-2004 11:48:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
are there any other songs like it

Check out Shpongle's two first albums 'Are You Shpongeled?' and 'Tales Of The Inexpressible'. On the second one there is a lot of that latin influence. Really awesome music, by that genious of a producer Simon Posford.

Posted by DJDREO on Sep-02-2004 13:43:

So is this a new single for an up coming album? Or just some single that came out of no where.

Posted by Quinders on Sep-02-2004 14:56:

Yeah it's a single from their forthcoming album. No release dates or anything on it though. It was on the flipside of Lo-Steps remix of their Dorset Perception track (Sasha fave of last year) which was released a few months ago on Twisted records.

Posted by Cosmos on Sep-06-2004 16:50:

i think this track is the best track of this year. simply amaizing. I would like to call it Ambient with goa/psy influence

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Sep-06-2004 17:19:

This track seems to suffer from ADD. It jumps all over the place and can't find a place to settle down. It just keeps twisting and turning...

Not that it's a bad thing, I guess... I just need to listen it a few more times, it hasn't really opened up for me...

Posted by VaNFeCto on Sep-06-2004 17:21:

quote:
Originally posted by kanaalborrel
I'm listening to the song for the first time right now.

Did you know "Beija Flor" means "humming bird" in Portugese, it literally means "Kiss Flower"? So that explains the bird sounds in the beginning...

It also is the name of the most popular Carnaval group in Rio de Janeiro, it's somewhat like a soccer team, they won the famous parade for the last two years: the middle samba part is sampled from the 2003 theme song of their participation in the parade, and featured on the so-called Enredo CD of Brazil, which is released every year with Carnaval.

Strangest track man; it even has 3/4 measures instead of 4-to-the-floor!!! I think I like it, not sure though

Kanaal

Great background info, but anyway this song is sick, I love it everything about it is absolutely amazing, I mean I love it, and its such a great ending to the Balance 006 cd although to be honest I enjoy the pre samba side of it more but nevertheless a great track, Im not really sure how to classify Goa and psy so Ill have to stay out of that, all in all sick track.

Pages (2): [1] 2 »