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Pantha Du Prince announces new album, Garden Gaia
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 15 July 2022
Pantha Du Prince has announced details of his fourth album, ‘Garden Gaia’, which is set for release next month through BMG’s Modern Recordings label.
Like his previous release, 2020’s ‘Conference Of Trees’, the album serves as an artistic exploration of nature, imagining Earth as a garden.
“There are scientists who say that we humans are ocean that’s been folded together”, he says. “My music is about raising consciousness, about describing the reality of life and the lost paradise through the means of music”.
“It’s about entering a free space and developing a maximum degree of openness and sensitivity to our bodies – to our mental states and the atmosphere that surrounds us”, he goes on. “It’s about mindfulness and a high level of awareness towards what’s happening around and within us”.
“I’ve poured all of these experiences into Garden Gaia as music”, he continues. “And that’s to be taken in the literal sense of ‘pouring’, since we belong to a flowing process on this planet. A tree also flows into the air, just as it’s connected to other trees beneath the ground through currents of communication. Our lungs flow into our bodies. And as embryos, we were flowing beings. The question is: to what extent can we adult humans continue to flow?”
The album’s first single is ‘Golden Galactic’, of which he says: “I recorded ‘Golden Galactic’ during a really special moment. I was awake and this golden shimmer slipped through my fingers and turned into sound. I kept playing and playing on a synthesiser while listening to myself play. Then I listened to this music with Friedrich Paravicini. Afterwards, he composed strings for it – it’s like a musical dialogue”.
‘Garden Gaia’ is set for release on 26 Aug. Watch the video for ‘Golden Galactic’ here:
