Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

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.

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.

I think it sounds wonderful, but will def take some time getting familiar with

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.

I liked the ultra chimey single. I must check it out.

Used to listen to PdP and Lawrence all the time ... and they've just fallen off my radar entirely.

Must remedy.

I tried a few things after Black Noise and none of them worked for me. I guess I'll try Conference of Trees.

It's pretty different!

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

This Bliss isn't available on streaming that I've found, which saddens me.

(I do have a digital copy of it ... somewhere ... but I can't just cue it up on Spotify.)

Yeah it's bizarre. Copyright claims from some cathedral whose bell he sampled?

I'm really enjoying Conference of Trees!

Completely missed Lawrence's Music for Plants:

https://lawrencedial.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-plants-2

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.

Still annoyed This Bliss isn’t on streaming.

came here hoping this was now on spotify

Oh, the sampling of this is apparently why it's not available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4arTGagPs

(Possibly old news).