Prince Istari

After Prince Istari finished the Dub Encounter with Erik Satie, he
immediately set to work on expelling the evil curse of artificial
intelligence. While the encounter with Satie was guided by the original
compositions, this album delves deeper into dub science.

The opening track is "Curse Of Machine Learning," a grinding cumbia dub
track that sucks you into the curse of machine learning. It's followed
by "Artificial Neural Network," arguably the album's most nerve-wracking
track, with wild snare rolls colliding with offbeat echoed riddim
sections. "Large Language Models" offers a more relaxed, arabesque
one-drop riddim with speech synthesis vocals. "Fake Image" closes the
first side with a full trombone solo contributed by Eugene Rosebud.

Side B starts with the one-drop killer tune "Haunted By Delusion,"
featuring an organ solo by Prince Istari. Drum and bass in your face.
"Evil Forces," on the other hand, is a fusion of jazz and dub; after the
brass section breakdown, it rolls into a crazy synth solo. Then next „I
Want Your Data" pulls your data into the AI's guts with a vibraphone.
This is maybe the ambitious tune on the record speaking of chord
progressions. The final track sees Eugene Rosebud return with a double
trombone solo in "Transhuman Feedback Rock" assisted by a saz cooling
the blues pattern with a hookline. Here we have beautifull springreverb
and harmonizer dub effects on the snare twirrling around the trombone solos.

All tunes composed, arranged, conducted and engineered by Prince Istari
and played by his house band The Virtualistics. Trombone Solos by Eugene
Rosebud. Packaged in a nice cover drawn by Markus Schäfer and frequency
shift and cut by LXC.