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New Release:

title: XI versions of Black Noise
label: Rough Trade Records
date: 18. April 2011



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. The prelude to recording the album included a visit to the Swiss Alps to record sounds and next to where he was staying was a huge pile of debris, the remnants of a huge landslide that had buried an entire village. This inspired the concept of the album, with the idea that ‘Black Noise’ is something of a sonic warning heard before momentous natural events.

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.

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BLACK NOISE