CD/DVD Releases: New Release From Troum Due May 30 From Beta-lactam Ring Records
Troum are set to release Eald-Ge-Streon via Beta-lactam Ring Records in a CD/DLP format on May 30, 2009.
With design, layout and artwork by Stephen O'Malley of SunnO))), packaged in a custom made book bound gatefold CD and DLP case, the first 500 copies will include the bonus album Abhijň?.
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 Sunn. 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 album will appeal to fans of drone, doom, SunnO))), Earth, Nadja, Organum, Nurse With Wound, Andrew Liles, Melancholics, Aidan Baker.
Troum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe (aka BarakaH) and Martin Gitschel (aka GLIT[s]CH). It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Ma?ror Tri. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.
Troum is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members "GlitH" and "Baraka[H]" were active before in the influential ambient industrial group Ma?ror Tri (which existed from 1988 to 1996). Troum is the old German word for "dream". The dream seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious symbolizes the aim of Troum to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. Troum uses music as the direct path to the Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the humans inner psyche. Troum tries to create music that works like a direct transformation of unconscious matter.
Troum's creations are influenced by post-industrial, minimal and drone-music. Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes and a diversity of sound-objects to build a kind of multi-layered and highly atmospheric dreaming-muzak. Their sound could be described as ?dark atmospheric ambient industrial?, "transcendental noise" or just ?Tiefenmusik?. Troum doesn't work with samplers or computer-soundsources, the sounds are created "by hand" to reach a broader sensibility. Troum uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of the music and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music as a door to unknown & alien dimensions. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself.
[Source: Beta-lactam]
