Hello, final visit to Troum
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 first full length album from TROUM in over 2 years. With this album, TROUM wanted to go in a completely different direction, creating a ‘harsher’ and more ‘Industrial’ sounding album as a contrast to previous releases. But through the trademark troumatic machining, the final result doesn’t sound at all like standard harsh noise – it’s rather industrial noise as if filtered through a feverish dream, through a deranged perception. The six long tracks of pestering transrational drones on “Acouasme” sound like an aural psychiatric symptom, a humming hallucination leaving the stable reality."
"Acouasme is the first proper full length in two years from these aQ beloved dronelords, and finds the duo attempting a harsher, more industrial sound, but harsh and industrial, at least in the hands of Troum, ends up sounding way more beautiful than brutal, a series of hypo-drone rituals, dense and dark, droney and dreamy.
Each of the six tracks here is a sprawling wash of groaning metallic buzz and grinding subsonic thrum, pocked with fleeting flecks of melody and driven by abstract rhythmic pulsations, again, not so much harsh, as sinister and cinematic, shadowy and ominous. In fact, much of Acouasme is actually quite lovely, albeit that grim, foreboding sort of loveliness that evokes all sorts of existential dread. Tracks unwind languorously, like a creeping black fog of abstract ambience, occasionally giving way to blurred choral shimmer, or collapsing into rib cage rattling sub-bass throb. Amidst these tranquil soundscapes, lurk both blurry bursts of blackened beauty, and heaving, churning tarpit rhythms, all wreathed in gristled swirls of decayed sound, getting downright heavy at times, but always seeming to settle back into more hazy, hypnotic black drift.
The closer is the most obviously rhythmic, an inky morass of layered swirl and roiled grey noise, wound around strange sonar pings, fractured sine waves, and distant melodies, all driven by a loping, lumbering slowcore beat, the end result sounding a bit like a drugged out, droned out Aluk Todolo, or some lost This Heat record spinning at 16rpm!" 
<a href="https://mir.cr/EDNJ12US"> Troum - Acouasme</a> ( flac 311mb)
01 Aliens Laughing About Us 7:48
02 Acouasme 10:59
03 Omega Melancholicum 10:06
04 Outer Brain Outsourcing 12:59
05 Somnolenz 7:00
06 Signe Du Miroir 17:57
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This is the first part of the long planned & executed collaboration, all material got the final mix through Peter Andersson / raison d'etre.
The second part ( to be released later) will feature material with a final mixing done by Troum. "Ever wondered how a mix of Troum and raison d’être would sound like? Here is the long awaited answer.
Four years in the making, carefully forged between 2011 and 2014, De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu showcases a magically crafted alchemy between these two titans of the drone and ambient realms.
Troum navigate through cavernous, subterranean spaces where cyclical sounds reverberate towards impressive crescendos of icy noise, luminous drones and dramatic, guitar-driven ghostly melodies. Their truly unique gorgeous soundscapes shine in a perfect symbiotic movement with the Swedish dark ambient maestro Peter Andersson. Engulfed in a hauntingly beautiful kaleidoscope of grey-ish melancholia, raison d’être comfortably walks deeply into Troum’s vast territory, delivering his very own trademark of eerie tones, ominous sacral ambience and crystal clear constructions. Airy lush enigmatic atmospheres live together with dark breathing, reverberant transformative drones. Rich and gorgeously layered.
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/HnL28"> Troum n Raison d'être - De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu </a> ( flac 366mb)
01 Folia 3:01
02 Alio tempore 10:06
03 Oculum mundi 15:16
04 Atmosphaera 6:47
05 Meditationum 18:55
06 Flammae 3:17
07 Ad infinitum 11:16
Bonus Disc
08 Interiora Terrae 6:44
09 Momentum 9:35
10 Exiliora Aeris 7:29
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A collaboration of two legends of the dark ambient & drone arenas is the reason for our offering today; the new album from Raison d’etre & Troum; XIBIPIIO.In And Out of Experience courtesy of Transgredient Records & Drone Records.
From Drone Records: “Based on a notion of the fascinating Amazonian Piraha tribe, this is an excursion into nine different micro-worlds of perception and consciousness….Music that reaches for the eternal, but it only exists in the very moment.”This album represents the second installment of the duo’s collaboration which began in 2013. In this particular release, Raison d’etre is responsible for all of the source material while Troum worked with guitars, voices, flutes, accordion, cello, violin, didgeridoo, dombra, tapes and found sounds.
The intriguing and intricate journey begins with a multi-layered piece like shards of ice sliding, melting down a pristine glass plane. One thing that is incredibly clear with track 1, “In Den Wellen, Ein Sehnen” and even more-so in track 2, “The Machine Starts to Sing,” is the resulting mix like the sonic equivalent of a 3-D movie; one artist’s work in the foreground and the other, background. Track 2, “The Machine Starts To Sing,” appears as virtual surround sound with gliding ambient waves in the background fluctuating in volume and degree of warmth. Seemingly closer to the listener is a collection of repeated strikes of what appears as found or percussive objects. Track 4, “Ardaga” is intriguing in its low-end drone background and high note ambient key dynamic followed then by a slowly-moving mid-range warm tone coming closer to the listener from the front. This track is a great example of how haunting the album can be at times; in this track’s case sounding like some kind of a transcendental spectral transition. There seems to be a very gray line between the real and the imaginary with this record. Are those real voice samples emanating from the planes and walls of sound or are they simple results of the magical combination of sounds? I’m certain we are better off leaving it to our own imaginations.
Regardless, it’s nice to know that in a sea of ambient, drone artists, there are still those out there who are willing (or are just plain natural magicians at) pushing barriers between sound an imagination, even breaking them down and building their own. For this album to truly be appreciated, it is advisable to listen to this through the headphones or in a surround-sound environment. It really is like a journey with nine separate scenes or even states of consciousness.
<a href="http://depositfiles.com/files/27px3yqqe"> Troum n Raison d'être - XIBIPIIO. In And Out Of Experience-</a> ( flac 299mb)
01 In Den Wellen, Ein Sehnen 5:05
02 The Machine Starts To Sing 4:48
03 Eigi Einhamr 6:45
04 Ārdaga 5:55
05 Hang'-E-Lah 10:57
06 Dreiklang Aus Äther 6:04
07 Ijä-Kyl 5:44
08 Expulsion Of The False Self 9:39
09 Epõdós 7:03
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Released on Russia’s Black Mara Records, Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo is a collection comprising Troum’s 7″ vinyl releases (+1 digital); 12 tracks in all. All tracks are fully remastered, united in the theme of a labyrinth.
From Black Mara: “It is a musical labyrinth in which we go from our earliest days, reliving every moment of the immense awe of the sublime. One topic gives way to another like the meandering paths. And revelation comes when seemingly no way out of a confusing puzzle. And if you’re a wanderer, your journey is complete. You’ve found yourself. “
Those unfamiliar with Troum’s journeys will find a unique blend and presentation of ambient (dark, cinematic) and drone along with experimental nuances. Troum even experiments a little with noisy textures with tracks like “Betonwolke.” Then tracks such as the appropriately titled, “Das Air” present much more of a minimalist composition. While some tracks are more vast, others such as “Nargis” are considerably more claustrophobic and columnar-sounding. Considering the former and latter tracks, Troum takes the listener from the beautiful to the haunting. “Victoria” represents another dimension of Troum’s skill in its ability to combine multiple layers of digital and analog sounding synth waves which bleed into one another to create their own notes on the spectrum. “Unreleased Theme For River Endscene” is quite the stunning track which blends complex vocal-sounding drones with fluid ambient sounds to give an experience especially worthwhile while wearing earphones.
Black Mara takes an unparalleled amount of care and pride in the presentation of their releases and this is no exception. Sonically and aesthetically their releases are always of the highest quality. The tracks are not chronologically sorted to get a new perspective inside this "labyrinth of music.
<a href="https://multiup.org/1022bce0697548638cc61ce02c51b843"> Troum - Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo </a> ( flac 346mb)
01 Aerugo 04:53
02 Aetas Vetus 06:54
03 Agnus Dei 04:34
04 Betonwolke 08:44
05 Das Air 06:16
06 Gruoen 07:01
07 Nargis 08:14
08 Saiws 06:49
09 Segeler 04:15
10 Un / Mahts 06:29
11 Victoria 03:43
12 Unreleased Theme For River Endscene 02:59
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