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Tour Dates 09/19/09 ZXZW-Festival Tilburg
10/02/09 NK BERLIN Berlin See Also |
| Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. Eald-Ge-Streon is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth. Troum has set its controls beyond the heart of the Sun. The pulsating inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum. You owe Troum awe! |
This was the introduction to the press release information, and I thought it was very interesting because Cimmorene told me she thought it sounded like "adventure music", that is, using it to set the atmosphere for an adventure story or game. At times she was intrigued and others she was creeped out.
TROUM hails from Bremen, Germany and is comprised of Stephan "Baraka[H]" Knappe and Martin "Glit[S]ch" Gitschel. The two were previously active in the ambient industrial group MAËROR TRI, and hence, TROUM is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project. Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.
Eald-Ge-Streon was released on Beta-Lactam Ring Records May 30th, 2009.
Troum means "dream" in German. The group also uses it as an acronym for Tiefenmusic Reaching Our Unconscious Minds. Tiefenmusic roughly translates to "deep music." What's implied (at least, again, in the press materials) is that the sound is a central manifestation of the dreamworld and the unconscious mind, and a gateway to a realization of that primal and unformed essence. But to be more direct, I will be blunt: the sound is out in some heavy backwaters of instrumental music. The influences include industrial, drone, and doom metal genres. Researching their origins and comparing them to the mess of descriptive labels also mentioned in the press release leads me to say once again that this is simply music you must listen to yourself, and listen to actively (preferably with headphones, if you can). If you are intimately familiar with the history of electronic music, many of these labels (including minimalist, experimental, ambient, and noise music) make more sense but for the average listener, again, I say that mere attentive listening is key.
What I can say that is probably more helpful is that TROUM eschews digital sources such as samplers or computerized tone banks in favor of more organic, tangible, and analog sound sources. The list (which is by no means exhaustive) includes guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes (some 8-track), and "sound objects". The album is also not even laid out in conventional, familiar means. What I received was two CDs, one with a long track about 30 minutes long ("Abhijna", the bonus CD, according to the Troum website), and another 6 tracks totaling about 45 minutes. The liner notes suggest that the tracks have names, but there is no indication of which track is named which either in those notes or the printed labels on the discs. If any of you are familiar with Savage Republic's "Procession", one of the tracks is a cover. (Any idea, Vu?) I can only assume that the order in which they are listed is the order in which they appear on the CD.
TROUM hails from Bremen, Germany and is comprised of Stephan "Baraka[H]" Knappe and Martin "Glit[S]ch" Gitschel. The two were previously active in the ambient industrial group MAËROR TRI, and hence, TROUM is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project. Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.
Eald-Ge-Streon was released on Beta-Lactam Ring Records May 30th, 2009.
Troum means "dream" in German. The group also uses it as an acronym for Tiefenmusic Reaching Our Unconscious Minds. Tiefenmusic roughly translates to "deep music." What's implied (at least, again, in the press materials) is that the sound is a central manifestation of the dreamworld and the unconscious mind, and a gateway to a realization of that primal and unformed essence. But to be more direct, I will be blunt: the sound is out in some heavy backwaters of instrumental music. The influences include industrial, drone, and doom metal genres. Researching their origins and comparing them to the mess of descriptive labels also mentioned in the press release leads me to say once again that this is simply music you must listen to yourself, and listen to actively (preferably with headphones, if you can). If you are intimately familiar with the history of electronic music, many of these labels (including minimalist, experimental, ambient, and noise music) make more sense but for the average listener, again, I say that mere attentive listening is key.
What I can say that is probably more helpful is that TROUM eschews digital sources such as samplers or computerized tone banks in favor of more organic, tangible, and analog sound sources. The list (which is by no means exhaustive) includes guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes (some 8-track), and "sound objects". The album is also not even laid out in conventional, familiar means. What I received was two CDs, one with a long track about 30 minutes long ("Abhijna", the bonus CD, according to the Troum website), and another 6 tracks totaling about 45 minutes. The liner notes suggest that the tracks have names, but there is no indication of which track is named which either in those notes or the printed labels on the discs. If any of you are familiar with Savage Republic's "Procession", one of the tracks is a cover. (Any idea, Vu?) I can only assume that the order in which they are listed is the order in which they appear on the CD.
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