Conference of Trees Pantha du Prince

• 1 Approach in a Breeze 10:46
• 2 Transparent Tickle Shining Glace 05:59
• 3 Holding the Oak 03:42
• 4 When We Talk 06:21
• 5 Roots Making Family 05:48
• 6 The Crown Territory 05:50
• 7 Supernova Space Time Drift 11:11
• 8 Silentium Larix 07:13
• 9 Pius in Tacet 05:39
• 10 Lichtung 12:00
• Total Runtime 01:14:29

Info for Conference of Trees

With "Conference Of Trees" Hendrik Weber releases his sixth album as Pantha du Prince. After working for DIAL Records, he released his opus magnum "Black Noise" on the English rough trade label in 2010, for which he also received an echo. With "Conference of Trees" Pantha du Prince hits the nerve of the time. In terms of music and content, it offers a contribution to what a world of tomorrow might look like. A conference for today and tomorrow

Trees communicate with each other. A fact that was previously hardly considered possible has now been scientifically proven several times. In times of the current climate crisis, this may offer alternative ways to counteract the threat of disaster. To this end, it would be useful to enter into a dialogue with the trees. "Conference Of Trees" symbolizes this exchange by seeking a musical language for the communication of the trees. Pantha du Prince has now tried to translate this phenomenon musically with his work "Conference of Trees". Using a wide variety of instruments - from the classical cello, through a wealth of tonewoods and bells in different tunings, to homemade instruments and electronics - Weber and his four fellow musicians created a ten-part suite

Some of the recordings were made from live concerts and in the studio. His quartet consists of four top musicians with whom Pantha du Prince has been working together since "The Bell Laboratory".

Pantha du Prince

Hendrik Weber
better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel or Glühen 4, was born in 1975 in Bad Wildungen, often referred to as the region's “Siberia”.

Weber, already a successful composer, producer and concept artist, published his début album as Pantha du Prince entitled "nowhere", in 2002. A few years later his first Studio album "Diamond Daze" (2004) appeared, followed by a Remix-12" ("Butterfly Girl Versions", 2005), as well as new material ("Lichten/Walden", 2006).

His second studio album as Pantha du Prince was "This Bliss", (2007), which generated great interest amongst the critics. In 2010 he presented his third album "Black Noise" on London's legendary Rough Trade Records. The label's founder Geoff Travis, personally introduced him to the English independent music institution, which has published many celebrated albums since its founding in the late 1970's. "Black Noise" with digitalised natural sounds and those of crackles and also bells, is already considered a classic of its genre. With this album, Weber won the critics prize at the distinguished German music awards "Echo" in Berlin in 2011.

As Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory Weber was joined by the Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen, developing a modern musical piece in Oslo and Berlin in 2010. In "The Bell Laboratory" Weber and Hagen investigate bells and melodic percussion, both rhythmically and tonally, set in a percussion piece for a 64 bell carillon, accompanied by a six-person ensemble. The world première of this piece was celebrated enthusiastically in August 2011 at the Oya Festival in Oslo.

In May 2012 Weber presented his new project "Ursprung", created together with Stephan Abry (who played with the artist Kai Althoff in the Kraut-Elektronika-Group “Workshop”). A performance-group will be showing this live.

In addition Weber has composed remixes and arrangements for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Philipp Glass, Bloc Party,Hurts and Trentemöller. Weber's work has been shown at solo and group exhibitions in numerous institutions and galleries.

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