Tanzerouft

ABOUT THE ALBUM

TANZEROUFT

Circa 14500 AG, the archeologist Hadi Benotto discovered a buried no-chamber in Dar-es-Balat on the planet of Rakis (formerly Arrakis) which contained the secret journals of God Emperor Leto II now known as The Stolen Journals.

Careful examination of these records revealed a previously unknown historical episode that occurred around 12500 AG.

For undisclosed reasons God Emperor Leto II dispatched a trusted fish speaker envoy to the planet of Chusuk. The envoy's task was to recruit young children with promising musical talent who also scored exceptionally high on the Mental ability battery that was employed during this era shortly before the Great Scattering.

16 suitable children between the age of 5-8 years old were brought back before Leto II on Arrakis. Of those 16, the God Emperor determined that only 4 displayed the depth of talent and mental adaptability to become Musical Mentats.

Leto ordered an unnamed trusted Naib to return to Sietch Jacurutu located in the deepest desert, The Tanzerouft to repopulate and occupy the Sietch in traditional Fremen fashion. The Naib obeyed the God Emperor’s commandment and brought his most trusted bonded tribes-people to accompany him and fulfill the mission.

Once the Sietch was determined to be secure and operational sufficient, Leto II sent the 4 fledgling prodigies along with their Mentat trainers to Jacurutu to learn the ancient Fremen ways. These 4 children soon grew to be adults with prodigious mental and musical talents.

Amongst the ridulian crystal papers, a shigawire recording was found . The Musical Mentats had created a testament to honor the God Emperor and the recent history of the creation of what is now known as the Golden Path.

This recording is the only extant record of the works of these nameless musical geniuses.

burgr

Brooklyn based composer/producer/engineer BURGR has been creating music and sound design for film, TV, stage and games for close to two decades. Classically trained, his personal work with electronic based media explores the intersection of experimental processes and techniques with pop culture. His work with traditional instrumentation stylistically lies between the high modernism of the Viennese school, the restrained emotionality of the French/American craft as taught by Nadia Boulanger to the early 21st century free for all of post-post modernism/minimalism.

As a producer/engineer he has worked with and for artists from The National, My Brightest Diamond and Clogs to Gym Class Heroes and Tom Jones. As a remixer he has reworked tracks from Lucius, ASTR, Local Natives and ShyChild.

Amongst larger scale personal projects he is working on a meta-project of creating a series of albums/eps in various micro genres. The intention of this project is to explore different styles and techniques with production timelines closer to commercial than purely artistic projects (weeks as opposed to months or years). His latest installment in the meta-project, “Tanzerouft” was created out a lifelong obsession with both Kraftwerk and Frank Herbert’s Dune universe.