Toby Marks travels the globe picking up exotic sound samples from spiritual chants and instrumentals. He then sets them to imaginative electronic compositions.
EBN’s brand of multimedia assault – combining video, audio, and all around spectacle – is far too much for the un-turned-on mind to assimilate all at once.
The lights lowered and a man crouched behind his mixing board and computers and cued the intro for Last Train to Lhasa. That’s when all hell broke loose.
After being deadened by the glut of shallowness and pretentious new age Valium, I’m pleased there are still soulful and spiritual voyages in electronic music.