Meets Erik Satie Inna Heavy Dub Encounter by Prince Istari

The earliest musical memories of young Prince Istari are of his mother beautifying the home with her piano playing. She would repeatedly play the tranquil pieces of Erik Satie. Skipping school and sitting in the sun, young Prince would listen to these catchy, calm compositions. In the first week of 2024, the older Prince Istari rediscovered himself and found a box containing his mother’s old sheet music. He transferred them to his computer and began spinning dub versions from them. It became a tapestry. As his mother used to say: “To weave a net, one must first spin.” The form of the pieces dictated the direction each would take. The heavy dub transforms here into a light weightiness until it dissolves into a pure piano piece accompanied by a synthesizer. However, the last piece is much older, from the time when Prince was still known as Istari Lasterfahrer. The ending includes a distorted recording of Huberta, Prince’s mother, playing a Gnossienne by Satie. At the end, she turns the sheet music, and the record can be turned back to the beginning.

In the essence of its material, this record rejects the Loudness War. The originality of the compositions guided the dub within their tracks, thereby imparting to each a form descriptive of its essence.

record release of 200 copies, printed sleave, numbered.

base sur compositions d’erik satie
dubbed par prince istari
realisation du 3.1.24 au 7.1.2024
justuqu’a (8) 2005/2012
percussions electronique et synthesetiseur*, piano, balafon, synthese granulair** et reverbation et dealy*** electroacoustique jour par istari lasterfahri.
(8) piano joue par ma mere****

* cascadia, pulsar23, vital vst, beni dub siren et levitation osc
** le bruit d‘un frein de vélo granulé sur Gnossine No 2
*** korg stage echo, ital dub delay, pt2399, kenmulti de1400, ekdahl
moisturizer, ni reaktor spring et optical spring reverb
**** Peut-être que tu peux l’entendre, Huberta, où que tu sois maintenant ?

enregistrements du bâtiments préfabriqués socialistes 2024