Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

buildup on 'spectral split' is great

This record making a tedious grey morning in a pokey little office seem infinitely more bearable.

it's a gorgeous record, very cocooning, very suitable for this current weather

Its brevity is a virtue as well, I lose interest in both This Bliss and Black Noise in their final third because his sound palette is consciously limited, but this is exactly the right length for one sitting.

Very much looking forward to picking this up at the weekend.

I held the LP in my hands last weekend but chose not to buy it, largely because of what Matt DC says - the Pantha thing is often too much to take in the form of an album. Its supposed brevity makes me reconsider though...

love this album

did anyone else go to the live show last night? INCREDIBLE experience. spellbinding

Did he/they basically play the album in order?

pretty much, but for the encore did reworked older Pantha material (Eisbaden among them)

the ravey/percussiony bits were way more intense than on record, and it was really visually compelling too - the lights, the shadows, the weirdly robed musicians (at first I thought it was a religious thing - the whole thing sounds so devotional) - but their costumes were actually scientists' lab coats; also, the actual act of playing bells is oddly fun to watch

So jealous.

ya. i stupidly missed them when they were here in chicago — and it looks like he won't even be playing in the states for the rest of the year :C

jealous too

elements of light a godsend today

In the mood for a new Lawrence album.

(Couldn't find a Dial thread).

have been loving efdemin's s/t lately

Feeling like I should love "Elements of Light" ... but I don't.

^^

the human bell-players aren't as tight as machines + he doesn't get to play with timbre the same way

Had a late night Dial Records shopping spree ... Phantom Ghost, Ursprung and Christian Naujoks albums now in the post.

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.

The new Lawrence single is making me want a new full-length too. But Elements Of Light is plenty sufficient.

Any thoughts on the new Lawrence album?

I still have to hear it properly but the samples didn't excite me much :(

I wish he'd kept to the sleeves being monochrome plants/old photographs.

I have time for Lawrence definitely, but agree with mmmm on this one, nothing in the samples is making me think about buying it

It is a nice album but the Etoile Du Midi single features the two best tracks from it.

Just repress The Absence of Bliss already!

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.

New Efdemin album in March.

A Sunday evening playing of Lawrence's "Lowlights from the past and future" ... beautiful.

Never did hear the Efdemin album ... any good?

Good but not great, not quite as ~emo~ as most of this thread.

In the mood for something "Lawrence-ish". (Recent) Recommendations?

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

and its 2011 but it suddenly popped in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mci6yWwWuCo

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2466

http://pitchfork.com/news/63649-pantha-du-prince-returns-with-first-solo-album-in-six-years-shares-the-winter-hymn-video/

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.

the lack of chatter on this thread seems to confirm my thoughts that this new album isn't anything special

Yeah, I was interpreting that, too.

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.

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?

I'd just start with "The Absence of Blight" and see where that takes you.

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.

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.

New Pantha du Prince! Album 'Conference of Trees' out March 6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_o1QpHTkY

Thanks for posting - I'd have easily missed this.

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.