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Rough Trade is very excited to release BLACK NOISE, the new album by electronic musician and producer, Pantha du Prince.
Pantha Du Prince has released several recordings through the respected German label Dial Records. His previous album This Bliss, was a bittersweet take on techno, which appealed to both dancefloors and living rooms alike and was hugely successful. As a result he has become an in-demand remixer and has done tracks for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, and many others. Black Noise is his third album and first for Rough Trade.
Pantha Du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man - a sound consisting mostly of silence. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore. Nature and technology become indistinguishable, all authenticity evaporates.
On this album, rifts, fractures, and digressions are not flaws in the system but acoustic micro-vectors that drive the narrative. The intros serve to present the source sounds recorded “out there”—knocking, barking, ringing, tinkling which are then soon caught in the currents of vaguely psychedelic mutations. Noises blend into one another, and the most diverse acoustic designs are in play: steel drums and marimbas as well as physical modeling.
Some tracks on this album are based on field recordings and improvisations produced in collaboration with Joachim Schütz (Arnold Dreyblatt Trio) and Stephan Abry (Workshop) in the Swiss Alps. They stayed in a house that happened to be located next to a pile of debris formed by a landslide that years ago had buried an entire village. The cover of Black Noise recalls this history of loss.
Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on the catchy “Stick to my side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”.
The message found on Black Noise is that beauty is possible even after the disaster; where there was debris and noise, there shall be great art.
Pantha Du Prince has released several recordings through the respected German label Dial Records. His previous album This Bliss, was a bittersweet take on techno, which appealed to both dancefloors and living rooms alike and was hugely successful. As a result he has become an in-demand remixer and has done tracks for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, and many others. Black Noise is his third album and first for Rough Trade.
Pantha Du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man - a sound consisting mostly of silence. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore. Nature and technology become indistinguishable, all authenticity evaporates.
On this album, rifts, fractures, and digressions are not flaws in the system but acoustic micro-vectors that drive the narrative. The intros serve to present the source sounds recorded “out there”—knocking, barking, ringing, tinkling which are then soon caught in the currents of vaguely psychedelic mutations. Noises blend into one another, and the most diverse acoustic designs are in play: steel drums and marimbas as well as physical modeling.
Some tracks on this album are based on field recordings and improvisations produced in collaboration with Joachim Schütz (Arnold Dreyblatt Trio) and Stephan Abry (Workshop) in the Swiss Alps. They stayed in a house that happened to be located next to a pile of debris formed by a landslide that years ago had buried an entire village. The cover of Black Noise recalls this history of loss.
Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on the catchy “Stick to my side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”.
The message found on Black Noise is that beauty is possible even after the disaster; where there was debris and noise, there shall be great art.