Feeling like I should love "Elements of Light" ... but I don't.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
the human bell-players aren't as tight as machines + he doesn't get to play with timbre the same way
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Had a late night Dial Records shopping spree ... Phantom Ghost, Ursprung and Christian Naujoks albums now in the post.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
x-post: maybe. i usually love hearing people hitting bells and usually love pantha du prince but i like the * idea * of it more than the actual result.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
The new Lawrence single is making me want a new full-length too. But Elements Of Light is plenty sufficient.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 May 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Any thoughts on the new Lawrence album?
― djh, Sunday, 15 September 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
I still have to hear it properly but the samples didn't excite me much :(
― mmmm, Sunday, 15 September 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
I wish he'd kept to the sleeves being monochrome plants/old photographs.
― djh, Sunday, 15 September 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I have time for Lawrence definitely, but agree with mmmm on this one, nothing in the samples is making me think about buying it
― suare, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
It is a nice album but the Etoile Du Midi single features the two best tracks from it.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 16 September 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
Just repress The Absence of Bliss already!
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
Lol, I mean Absence of Blight. S/T Lawrence album too!
Succumbed and bought it. On a couple of plays (admittedly, whilst driving so I may have been missing detail) it didn't seem particularly special: like Lawrence but ... less so.
― djh, Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
New Efdemin album in March.
― djh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
A Sunday evening playing of Lawrence's "Lowlights from the past and future" ... beautiful.
― djh, Sunday, 19 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Never did hear the Efdemin album ... any good?
― djh, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Good but not great, not quite as ~emo~ as most of this thread.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
In the mood for something "Lawrence-ish". (Recent) Recommendations?
― djh, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
might not be quite what you are looking for but we've all been late for tea once or twice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlxpiZtfig
― saer, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
and its 2011 but it suddenly popped in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mci6yWwWuCo
― saer, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2466
― djh, Friday, 29 May 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/63649-pantha-du-prince-returns-with-first-solo-album-in-six-years-shares-the-winter-hymn-video/
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 20 February 2016 11:10 (eight years ago) link
Can't believe a) that I'd totally missed a new album and b) that I've lost my copy of "This Bliss". "Black Noise" sounding just right tonight, though.
― djh, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
the lack of chatter on this thread seems to confirm my thoughts that this new album isn't anything special
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I was interpreting that, too.
― djh, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
I've lost track of Lawrence since he released an album in a non-monochromatic sleeve ... but sometimes I'll find an old track on a compilation that sounds just incredible.
― djh, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
dude constantly gets mentioned along with early Pantha (which is my favorite Pantha), however I can't remember a single track he's ever done. also he's impossible to search for.
Lawrence POX thread?
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
I'd just start with "The Absence of Blight" and see where that takes you.
― djh, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
I really like Lawrence because of the transcience of his material. There's enough going on in it to hold my attention but whenever I listen to his stuff I struggle to recognise it and so it feels new and fresh to me. I can't imagine him going for the emo-bombast of Pantha Du Prince anyway.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
I often find myself thinking how Innervisions took the templates of this stuff from Dial and Kompakt and ran with it to become the darlings of European clubbers and Resident Advisor readers, and yet none of the magic of soft sad techno seems to have rubbed off.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
New Pantha du Prince! Album 'Conference of Trees' out March 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_o1QpHTkY
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
Thanks for posting - I'd have easily missed this.
― djh, Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
didn't really vibe on much of this including the first few tracks, but "roots making family" and "the crown territory" in particular hit quite nicely. hoping i come around on the rest with more listens.
― petey v, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
I'm kinda like you. Love the sound palette of this and a few tracks really hit the spot ("Silentium Larix" and "Pius in Tacet" for me). Needs more spins for sure.
― cooldix, Thursday, 19 March 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
I think it sounds wonderful, but will def take some time getting familiar with
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 19 March 2020 07:33 (four years ago) link
Feel like the response to Conference of Trees was pretty lukewarm. I keep going back to it for the 3 or 4 tracks that I think are great, but I could probably lose the entire first half and not miss it. Really strange album with really strange sequencing. Very slow to reveal itself. But like I said, I keep going back to it.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
I liked the ultra chimey single. I must check it out.
― chap, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
Used to listen to PdP and Lawrence all the time ... and they've just fallen off my radar entirely.
Must remedy.
― djh, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
I tried a few things after Black Noise and none of them worked for me. I guess I'll try Conference of Trees.
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
It's pretty different!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_dvjdOaaA
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
This Bliss isn't available on streaming that I've found, which saddens me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
(I do have a digital copy of it ... somewhere ... but I can't just cue it up on Spotify.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah it's bizarre. Copyright claims from some cathedral whose bell he sampled?
I'm really enjoying Conference of Trees!
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Completely missed Lawrence's Music for Plants:
https://lawrencedial.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-plants-2
― djh, Sunday, 7 March 2021 10:33 (three years ago) link
Really enjoyed hearing Pantha du Prince on Elizabeth Alker's show:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012rgj
Was in the mood for a wintery mix so possibly very receptive to it.
― djh, Sunday, 26 December 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
Still annoyed This Bliss isn’t on streaming.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 26 December 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
came here hoping this was now on spotify
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Monday, 27 December 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
Oh, the sampling of this is apparently why it's not available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4arTGagPs
(Possibly old news).
― djh, Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
― willem, Thursday, 16 May 2024 14:28 (four weeks ago) link