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Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise - Out Now 8 February 2010 in Pantha du Prince
Today sees the release of Black Noise, the third album by Pantha Du Prince and his first album for Rough Trade.
On his new album, 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, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect.
Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on “Stick to my side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”
“When taken in all its sprawling glory, the record is intense and rewarding, and when it stops the silence becomes grandoise – if you let it Black Noise might just change the way you listen to the world. – 9/10 – Drownedinsound.com
“…Evokes those moments when we experience nature not cerebrally, but sensually, creating music that crackles like static in a sky burdened with storm (The Splendour), then glitters like a rain-soaked landscape illuminated by sun (Welt am Draht).” – 4/5 – The Guardian
You can listen to the album here:
Watch the new video for Be Brave by The Strange Boys 5 February 2010 in Strange Boys
Watch the new video for Be Brave by The Strange Boys.
The Strange Boys release their second album Be Brave on the 22nd of February.
Listen to Jarvis Cocker's show on BBC 6Music 2 February 2010 in Jarvis Cocker
The lovely people at BBC 6 Music have created a widget so that you can listen to Jarvis’ latest radio shows:
Listen to Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince 1 February 2010 in Pantha du Prince
You can listen to Black Noise, the highly-anticipated new album from Pantha Du Prince, a week before it’s released via the player below:
Black Noise Visual Album Trailer 29 January 2010 in Pantha du Prince
This trailer is a series of animations linking together the audio clips from Pantha Du Prince’s forthcoming album, Black Noise.
The animations were created by Ashley Dean of Broken Pixel:
“Described by Pantha Du Prince as ‘a frequency inaudible to man, something archaic and earthly, the calm before the storm’, the phenomenon of Black Noise was as much of a challenge to render in visual media as it was to make an album that encapsulated this elusive substance. The central process used for the trailer was part mechanical...
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To Succeed In Music... Posted by on 30 September 2009 in blog
When Rough Trade garage rock fave The Strange Boys came over here last month for their blistering UK tour, we of course hung out with the boys.
It’s interesting talking to a band about influences and all that into the night,
and as we did they got me into the late great fellow Texan…Townes Van Zandt.
Check out the TVZ documentary Be Here To Love Me to see why some people said that he was the greatest songwriter in the world here is a clip where Townes explains what a musician should do if he wants to suceed: