Pantha du Prince has detailed a new studio album. The German producer born Hendrik Weber will deliver Garden Gaia on August 26 via Modern Recordings/BMG.
Following 2020's Conference of Trees, the nine-track Garden Gaia finds Weber once more reflecting on the natural world, conducting a musical exploration of "Earth as a vision of a perfectly functioning garden."
Weber explains in a statement, "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. 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. And that's to be taken in the literal sense of 'pouring,' since we belong to a flowing process on this planet."
"Golden Galactic" is the album's closing track and first single, and you can hear it below alongside a video from Granada, Spain-based video artist Natalia Stuyk.
"I recorded 'Golden Galactic' during a really special moment. I was awake and this golden shimmer slipped through my fingers and turned into sound," Weber shared of the track. "I kept playing and playing on a synthesizer 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:
1. Open Day
2. Crystal Volcano
3. Start a New Life
4. Blume (Bendik HK Edit)
5. Mother Drum
6. Heaven Is Where You Are (Bendik HK Edit)
7. Liquid Lights
8. Alles Fühlt
9. Golden Galactic
Following 2020's Conference of Trees, the nine-track Garden Gaia finds Weber once more reflecting on the natural world, conducting a musical exploration of "Earth as a vision of a perfectly functioning garden."
Weber explains in a statement, "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. 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. And that's to be taken in the literal sense of 'pouring,' since we belong to a flowing process on this planet."
"Golden Galactic" is the album's closing track and first single, and you can hear it below alongside a video from Granada, Spain-based video artist Natalia Stuyk.
"I recorded 'Golden Galactic' during a really special moment. I was awake and this golden shimmer slipped through my fingers and turned into sound," Weber shared of the track. "I kept playing and playing on a synthesizer 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:
1. Open Day
2. Crystal Volcano
3. Start a New Life
4. Blume (Bendik HK Edit)
5. Mother Drum
6. Heaven Is Where You Are (Bendik HK Edit)
7. Liquid Lights
8. Alles Fühlt
9. Golden Galactic
