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Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sigur Rós
Label: Mca
Category: Music
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 106682
Format: Single, Enhanced
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
Publication Date: 2004
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Album Details
The Members of Sigur Ros Performed them Live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and Again in Paris. On These Occasions the Band Improvised a 20-minute Section of Music Over a Previously Recorded Backing Track Using Two Sheet-fed Music Boxes, a Glockenspiel and a Specially Homemade Percussive Instrument (Dubbed "Bummsett" in Icelandic) Comprising Eight Ballet Shoes on a Rack. The Backing Tracks Incorporated Recordings of Merce Cunningham's Voice and the Sound of his Tap-dancing Feet, as Well as the Sounds of the Dancers' Footfalls, Recorded at the Company's Studio in Manhattan. The Results of the Live Improvisation (Which Came to Mirror Some Elements of the Choreography) were Recorded at the Band's Studio Outside Reykjavik, Iceland in Late Nov 2003. The Three Sections Are Designed to Be Played in Any Order. Split Sides was Made Up of Two Alternative Pieces of Choreography, Costume Design, Set Design and Music, the Latter Provided by Sigur Ros and Radiohead.
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 A Needed Clarificatrion for Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do... April 2, 2008
Brandon Harvey (Lawrence, KS USA)
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. April 10, 2007
Wes Newman (McMinnville, TN United States)
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. Be careful with this one. 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 September 13, 2006
Mark Iwanicki (Boston, MA)
At first listen this sounds like very simplistic and un-Sigur Ros-like. In order to fully appreciate this EP, you need to combine all three songs into one track (I used cooledit). Once you do this you can see its a multi-layered and beautiful piece of work.
 A medicre CD by a great band February 11, 2006
Mad Max (Seattle, WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the other reviewer.
This is a great band, but this CD is mediocre - well beneath their level of ability. 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.
 Ba ba babble January 10, 2005
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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