XI versions of Black Noise

XI versions of Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince is an album of reworkings of tracks originally on the album Black Noise by Pantha Du Prince's friends and contemporaries including 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'. Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise has been lauded as a groundbreaking, seminal album in its field.

Pantha Du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims that 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.