Pantha Du Prince Releases New Album 'Mondholz: Remixes & Canons: ÜBERBACH'

Mondholz: Remixes & Canons by Pantha Du Prince, is the flawless merging of Bach’s revolutionary style, with Arash Safaian’s remarkable reimagining of the composer’s work and Pantha Du  Prince’s singular approach to  electronic composition.

Arash Safaian’s ÜberBach was the winner of a 2017 ECHO Klassik Award in the ‘Classical  Without  Borders’ category and his aim was   to  compose  music  in  which  one  could  hear  Bach without  Bach  actually  being  present. Pantha Du Prince, AKA Hendrik Weber the renowned electronic producer, sought to develop this idea even further with a record based on Sarafin’s work.

For both artists, it’s a  perfect  pairing.  “I always had the sense he’d  feel similarly about Bach,” Safaian said of Weber. “…He was my first and only choice for collaboration.”

Weber, meanwhile, states that “my deep connection with Bach, and my awareness of his impact on how we listen to, and perform, music today, led me to a certain space. Embracing his genius and respecting the structures, I wanted to transcend the idea of Bach ́s music and create a new piece out of it, still keeping the canons as a backbone, but using new technologies to expand his vision.”

The record was performed  by  Sebastian  Knauer  (piano),  Pascal  Schumacher  (Vibraphone) and  the  Zurich  Chamber  Orchestra –and  as Safaian says,  combines the “universal architecture of the canon … with the principle of dancing.”

The results are two original tracks and two remixes, an exciting marriage of  classical  and electronic  music. Two Genres that need not be suspicious of each other any longer. The record premiered on the 22nd of September and can be found on all music stores and streaming sites.