Pantha Du Prince - April release - "reworkings" of Black Noise tracks! 08 Feb 2011

Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the April 19th release of XI versions of Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince, an album of reworkings of tracks originally on his album Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others Animal Collective, Moritz Von Oswald, Four Tet, Efdemin and North American pioneer Hieroglyphic Being. Pantha Du Prince also does his own new version of “Lay In A Shimmer”.

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. MORITZ VON OSWALD THE ONE VERSION OF “WELT AM DRAHT“
2. DIE VÖGEL VERSION OF “WELT AM DRAHT“
3. LAWRENCE VERSION OF “STICK TO MY SIDE“
4. FOUR TET VERSION OF “STICK TO MY SIDE“
5. THE SIGHT BELOW VERSION OF “A NOMAD´S RETREAT“
6. EFDEMIN VERSION OF “STICK TO MY SIDE“
7. HIEROGLYPHIC BEING VERSION OF “SATELLITE SNIPER“
8. CARSTEN JOST VERSION OF “STICK TO MY SIDE“
9. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE VERSION OF “WELT AM DRAHT“
10. PANTHA DU PRINCE “LAY IN A SHIMMER“ FATA MORGANA VERSION
11. WALLS VERSION OF “STICK TO MY SIDE“
 
Pantha Du Prince’s Black Noise has been lauded as a groundbreaking, seminal album in it’s field:

“Each track is its own micro sound world with enough rich detail to draw you back for deeper investigation. The album is undoubtedly a success for Weber-- if not an outright step forward, then a graceful lateral one-- who probably could have gotten away with not making such a comprehensive shift in sound. Instead he chose to deconstruct his signature style, and the result is strikingly unique.” -PITCHFORK, 8.3, Best New Music
“Black Noise just might be the height of Weber’s work under the Pantha Du Prince moniker” -XLR8R
“music that crackles like static in a sky burdened by storm, then glitters like a rain soaked landscape illuminated by sun” – 4/5 The Guardian

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. Black noise often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this “calm before the storm.” Black noise is something archaic and earthy. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore. 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.
 
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.
 
As Geoff Travis (Rough Trade founder) has said: “When Rough Trade started we were very much involved with the first wave of do it yourself electronica, with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle amongst our early releases. It is nice to be able to return to the fray with one of the most musically eloquent practitioners in this field, Pantha Du Prince.”
 
Pantha Du Prince is currently working on an installation as an audiovisual artist in Berlin and a dance piece with Parisian Collective Last Last.  He is also working on a new live presentation of his music incorporating ambitious lighting and visual elements, to be premiered late this year or early 2012.