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Today's Artists are a duo from Bremen, Germany and are sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tr   ..... N'Joy

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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 (a.k.a. Baraka[H]) and Martin Gitschel (a.k.a. Glit[S]ch). It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror 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 "Glit[S]ch" and "Baraka[H]" were active before in the influential ambient/industrial group MAËROR TRI (which existed from 1988 to 1996). TROUM is the old German word for "DREAM". The dream is seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious, and 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.

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.
TROUMs compositions are influenced by post-industrial, dark ambient and minimal /drone-music. Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flutes, pipes, mouth-organ, melodica, gongs, field recordings, loops, 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 drone" or just “Tiefenmusik”. TROUM doesn't work
with synths, 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 seen as a door tounknown & alien dimensions with pre-verbal and pre-symbolic origins. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself: A tool for the eternal psychic renascence.Live appearances: TROUM performed several times at various venues and did small tours throughout Europe, Russia, USA & Canada, and played or toured with BAD SECTOR, CISFINITUM, SUNN O))),
AEOGA, AIDAN BAKER/NADJA, VOICE OF EYE, INADE, REUTOFF, KRENG, ZOVIET FRANCE, and many others. TROUM also performed at several bigger festivals



“These are dreams, dreamed by dreamers, who are awake”

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The Reutoff project can literally be called unique on the Russian post-industrial scene. Each release of the Moscow Region trio is a new step in a fascinating journey through soundscapes, where there are almost less hungry abysses than inviting heights. Over the years of the collective's existence, the study of these landscapes has formed a recognizable style in which complex symphonic dark ambient is combined with spectacular forays into adjacent musical territories. According to the members of the group, Reutov and its surroundings abound in strange, disturbing and truly magical places. Together they form a single sacred space that stimulates creative activity like no other. Note that this vivid connection between geography and harmony, which is easy to comprehend in the spirit of the philosophy of neo-Eurasianism, can be clearly seen in the works of the trio - even an unprepared listener will hear in Reutoff the “music of the soil”, the monumental melody of tectonic faults.



<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/D8yY8"> Troum vs Reutoff - Kreuzung Zwei (Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur)</a> ( flac 227mb)

01 Aether Purus (8:01)
02 Terrenus (7:03)
03 Creatura Per Creaturam Continetur (12:40)
04 Ignis Niger (4:47)
05 Ignis Lucidus (7:50)
06 Aer Aquosus (Reprise) (4:01)

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Limited edition of 500 copies, include the bonus track "Abhijñâ" on a second CD. Comes in in a full color deluxe gatefold book bound CD case. Copies pre-ordered from the label also include a bonus gatefold black insert signed by Baraka (H) and Glit(S)ch.

Taken from sleeve:
"EALD-GE-STRÉON - this is a collection of strange songs and odd old jewells. Most basic versions were recorded years ago on analogue 8-track and some later re-worked & re-mastered over and over again. Pieces that were not "ready" when they were made, are pieces that developed & mutated further over the years. Most of them were originally used for live-performances. We still don't know really what it is, but we couldn't stop ourselves from producing this little hymns...

The basic version of ELATION was recorded years ago (maybe in 2001) and was then later part of a live performance also called "ELATION" and performed at the end of 2003 in London, Brighton, Dublin & Cork and spring 2004 during our European tour with DJ ZIPO.

USQUE SUMUS LUX & EOLET were performed several times in 2004 as a live-set called "SIGQAN II" in Dortmund, Copenhagen and Aarhus.

DHÂNU-H is based on a song we adore by a German "Schlager" singer. It also appeared on a credit-card mini CDR in a tiny cardboard-box edition of about 30 copies in Michael Hohendorf's 'cigarette-machine' project. It was also a part of a live show in Bremen with ASIA NOVA and VOICE OF EYE on September 13, 2007.

PROCESSION is a cover version of a SAVAGE REPUBLIC song. It was the end part of a live program we performed throughout the year 2007 in Arnhem, Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Prague & Lille. Original song was published by The Independed Project Music (BMI) / Jackson Del Rey Music (BMI).

The unreleased version of CRESCERE was the bonus part of a performance named "TRAHAN II" we performed in Antwerp, Ghent and Arnhem in April 2005. It is based on a soundtrack to a French movie from the 70s, which influenced Glit(S)ch, (8 years old) to start making music.

ABHIJÑÂ is a brand new track, specially produced specifically for the bonus CD in the winter & spring 2008 for the first 500 copies.

Everything recorded in Bremen, Germany, from (about) 2001-2008.
Ingredients: Guitar and Basswork, Voice, Accordion, Djembe, Loops, Sufi-Singing, Field, Sea and Churchbell Recordings and our legendary Serving Plate...

TROUM wishes to thank Chris McBeth, SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Helge Siehl for the participation in EOLET, Markow C. for the mastering, Stephen O'Malley for the art, design and layout and all the great people who supported us over the years, especially Jeffrey Yount who runs the official Troum website!
TROUM May 2008."

"Eald-Ge-Stréon" is Old English for "Ancient treasure". "Abhijñâ" is Sanskrit for "Higher knowledge".



<a href="https://multiup.org/f0998dea1ce9a4ff9c92a3cceb5120ab">  Troum - Eald-Ge-Streon + Abhijna  </a> ( flac 398mb)

     Eald-Ge-Stréon     58:52
01 Elation 7:09
02 Usque Sumus Lux 8:18
03 Eolet 7:53
04 Ecstatic Forlorness 9:40
05 Dhânu-H 4:41
06 Procession 4:39
07 Crescere 16:28
Bonus CD
201 Abhijñâ 33:30

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Germany’s Troum are among the absolute top shelf when it comes to anything ambient and industrial. Their previous band, when they were three, Maeror Tri was already legendary with pretty much everything they ever released committed to CD release, and now they release great records as Troum, a duo of Glit[S]ch and Baraka[H]. ‘Mare Idiophonika’ is the studio version of their concert piece they played in 2007 when they toured Europe with Nadja, Asia Nova and Voice Of Eye. At their disposal they have such diverse sound players as guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings and sound effects, although its hard to pin down any of these specific in this recording. Computer sounds don’t play a role in their work – everything is done by hand. Tis almost hour long piece is a pretty strong manifestation of their music. They want to reach for the dream state, the unconscious side of the brain and they succeed well. This piece, which clearly has
various movements does just that: it sticks right into the brain of the listener and it transports him. I am not the sort of person to put any music when going to sleep, but this would certainly be worth to try out. But how would I review that then? The poor reviewer has to stay awake, but conformably drifts away when playing this. A highly refined Troum record. Perhaps not one that is very different from their previous output, but certainly one of the better.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/L5v4a8A0p4/Trm_Mr_Idphnk_zip">  Troum - Mare Idiophonika-</a> ( flac 278mb)

01 The Self-Playing Ocean 59:11

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Real weird stuff by Troum's standards. This is the middle part of their so-called "Power Romantic" trilogy, lodged between 2010's Mare Idiophonika and 2013's Mare Morphosis, and like these two it tells a story about an ocean. The Grote Mandrenke ("Great Man-drowning") was, as it turns out, a great storm that flooded the Netherlands and northern Germany with great loss of life circa AD 1362, but whether that's supposed to provide any insight into the music here I can't say. It's not what I would call tempestuous music but Troum don't have a tempestuous bone in their bodies, the record stays smooth fluid and under control right through.

Which is not to say it isn't interesting. Like the other two albums in the trilogy, this is a single long track that evolves considerably as it runs, but while "The Self-Playing Ocean" at least stayed relatively rooted to the dreamy, trancelike ethereality for which Troum are best known, "Grote Mandrenke" integrates industrial and even rock influences into something truly bizarre. Starting out with a faintly unsettling, Gas-like ambient intro, it grows into thicker guitar drones more reminiscent of something like Aun and finally a pounding, rhythm-driven third stage that reminds me of early Skullflower before returning briefly to spooky synth atmospherics and hypnotic darkwavish male vocals that close the album out. The closest point of reference in Troum's extensive discography is maybe Objectlessness (2005) but really this isn't much like anything else Troum have done. At times I felt like I was listening to a lost Coil album; at other times I felt totally unmoored from every other influence - washed out - all at sea.



<a href="https://mir.cr/1BWUTQ5S">Troum - Grote Mandrenke  </a> ( flac 266mb)

01 Grote Mandrenke 44:02


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