Troum
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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 (aka Baraka[H]) and Martin Gitschel (aka 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.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
project of drone music
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...
, ambient music
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
, and experimental music
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe (aka Baraka[H]) and Martin Gitschel (aka Glit[S]ch). It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri
Maeror Tri
Maeror Tri was an ambient noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Git and Helge Siehl....
. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records
Drone Records
Drone Records is an independent record label based in Germany specialising in drone, ambient, and noise music.-Overview:Drone Records was founded by Stefan Knappe . The label releases exclusively 7" and 10" vinyl, and all the artists design their own release artwork.-External links:* - official...
.
History
“These are dreams, dreamed by dreamers, who are awake”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
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, balalaika
Balalaika
The balalaika is a stringed musical instrument popular in Russia, with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass...
, 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.
LPs, EPs, singles
| Year | Title | Format | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Troumings | MC | No label | |
| 1998 | Daur | 10" | Cohort Records | Limited to 300 copies on blue vinyl; 24 copies in special cover |
| 1998 | Dreaming Muzak | MC | Cling Film - Records 7 | Limited to 100 copies, handmade pillow-cover |
| 1998 | Ryna | CD | Myotis Records | First edition of 500 copies came in large cover |
| 2000 | Framapeis / Var | 12" | Moloko+ | First edition 200 copies; second edition 100 copies |
| 2000 | Mort Aux Vaches Mort Aux Vaches Mort aux Vaches is the name of a series of albums released by the Staalplaat record label in collaboration with the Dutch radio station, VPRO. The name translates literally from French as “Death to Cows,” with “cows” being French slang for German cops - it is equivalent to “Death to Pigs” in English... : Sen |
CD | Staalplaat Staalplaat Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Created in 1982, the company's mission was created as a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music... |
Limited to 600 copies |
| 2001 | Kapotte Muziek By... | 7" | Korm Plastics | Limited to 300 copies |
| 2001 | Tjukurrpa (Part One: Harmonies) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2001 | Tjukurrpa (Part Two: Drones) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2002 | Mnemonic Induction | CD | Malignant Records | Collaboration with Yen Pox |
| 2002 | Symbiosis | MCD | Transgredient Records | First 200 copies in special cover |
| 2003 | Darvê Sh | 10" | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | Limited to 500 copies; first 100 copies came in red-white vinyl |
| 2003 | Kasha-Pâshâna | CD | Old Europa Cafe Old Europa Cafe Old Europa Cafe is an Italian independent record label and mail order service specializing in ambient music, noise music, electronic music, and industrial music. It is based in Pordenone. Originating in the early 1980s Old Europa Cafe began as a small cassette label. Some of the original Old... |
Limited to 500 copies, together with Tam Quam Tabula Rasa and Kallabris |
| 2003 | Ljubimaya | 10" | Waystyx Records | Limited to 455 copies; all in special cover |
| 2003 | Sigqan | CD | Desolation House | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2003 | Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms And Pulsations) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2004 | Autopoiesis | Pic-LP | Small Voices | Limited to 567 copies |
| 2004 | Un/Mahts | Pic-7" | Equation Records | Limited to 444 copies |
| 2005 | Ajin | Pic-12" | Equation Records | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2005 | Dissolution | CD | Fario | Split/Collaboration with Christian Renou |
| 2005 | Nahtscato | 12" | Paranoise Records | Limited to 300 copies on red vinyl |
| 2005 | Objectlessness | CD-R | Mystery Sea | Limited to 100 copies |
| 2006 | Seeing-Ear Gods | CD-R | Discorporeality Records | Live, limited to 200 copies |
| 2006 | Shutûn | CD | Old Europa Cafe | Collaboration with All Sides, Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2006 | To A Child Dancing In The Wind | CD | Transgredient Records | Collaboration with Martyn Bates |
| 2006 | Dreaming Muzak | CD-R | Taalem/Kokeshidisk | Reissue, first 100 in special cover |
| 2007 | AIWS | CD | Transgredient Records | |
| 2007 | Ignis Sacer | LP | Welt Am Draht | Live |
| 2007 | Nargis | 7" | Viva Hate Records | Limited to 500 copies; 100 violett, 400 red, first 50 with T-Shirt |
| 2007 | Ryna | CD | Transgredient Records | Reissue |
| 2007 | Symballein | CD | SmallVoices | |
| 2008 | Darvê Sh / Ajin | CD | Nefryt | Reissue, limited to 404 copies |
| 2008 | Sen | 2x12" | Equation Records | Reissue, limited to 217 picture discs, 147 clear tan with black/white halo, 97 clear milky white with sepia haze |
| 2009 | Eald-Ge-Stréon | CD | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | |
| 2009 | Eald-Ge-Stréon/Abhijñâ | 2xCD | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2009 | Sigqan | CD | Transgredient Records | Reissue |
| 2009 | Ljubimaya / Daur | CD | Abgurd Records | Reissue, limited to 500 copies |
| 2010 | Mare Idiophonika | CD | Tourette Records | limited to 500 copies |
Compilation appearances
| Year | Track title | Appears on/Compilation name | Format | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Stredan" | Ambient Intimacy | CD-R | EE Tapes | Limited to 169 copies, two editions |
| 1998 | "Krêt" | Circles of Infinity | 2MC | Myotis Records | Limited to 150 copies |
| 1999 | "Untitled 15 Min. Extract" | 11th Festival for Independent Music & Arts | Video (VHS) | EE Tapes | Limited to 100 copies |
| 1999 | "Luaid" | Paraphilia Worship | CD-R | Maintenance | Limited to 150 copies |
| 1999 | "Exic" | Vorely Relay | CD | Noctovision | Remix of an Ultra Milmmaids track |
| 1999 | "Brinnan" | Lagrimas Die Miedo | CD | Fear Drop No. 6 magazine | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2000 | "Lumen" | A Bell Is Just a Bowl Till It's Struck | CD-R | Beta lactam Ring Records | Limited to 100 copies, all in special covers |
| 2000 | "Rigor Vitreus" | Audio Odditions #2 | CD | Influx Communications | |
| 2000 | "Navis" | Ten Years of Madness. Behind The Iron Curtain | 2CD | Achtung Baby/Indiestate | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2000 | "Untitled Loop" | lockERS | LP | ERS | |
| 2000 | "Thumus" | Cling Film Compilation | CD-R | Cling Film Festival | Limited to 200 copies |
| 2001 | "Ganymed" | Automation | 2LP | Laub Records | |
| 2002 | "Eugh [Cunabula]" | ThisConnected | CD | Thisco | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2002 | "Part II (edit) of Sigqan" | A Slight Touch of Grace | CD | Release Entertainment | Promotional release |
| 2002 | "Wit Wists Fra-Qistjan" | Fear Drop No. 9 | CD | Fear Drop No. 9 magazine | |
| 2002 | "Khan-Arachnid" | Infernal Proteus | 4CD/Book | The Ajna Offensive The Ajna Offensive The Ajna Offensive is an American independent record label which releases extreme metal, experimental music and neofolk records, and books related to the occultism, ritual work, magick theory and meta-history. The proprietor of the label is Tyler Davis, who had worked with Stephen O'Malley on the... |
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| 2002 | "Ater" | Painted Black | CD | Tumult Records | |
| 2003 | "Magischer Moment" | DHY 050 | LP | Dhyana Records | |
| 2003 | "Untitled" | Lactamase Bonus Compilation Lactamase Bonus Compilation Lactamase Bonus Compilation is a compilation put together by Beta-lactam Ring Records. This album is the bonus 10" and number 13 in the Lactamase series... |
10" | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | |
| 2003 | "Makaria" | The Walls Are Whispering | CD | EE Tapes | Limited to 525 copies |
| 2003 | "Ananke" | Evolved As One | CD | Evolved As One | |
| 2004 | "Uswena" | Shadows of Records Infinite | CD | Crucialblast | |
| 2005 | "When You Scream..." | Aidan Baker - Remixes | CD | Arcolepsy | Limited to 250 copies, remix of an Aidan Baker Aidan Baker Aidan Baker is a musician from Toronto, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja, ARC, and Mnemosyne. He has also written several books of poetry.... track |
| 2006 | "Dhanu-h" | Breaking Down the Barriers 1995-2005. Ten Years of Afe | MP3 | Contributed to free online compilation | |
| 2006 | "Drüsian" | Brainwaves Brainwaves (compilation) Brainwaves is a compilation album put together by Brainwashed.com to commemorate the Brainwaves festival. The album is a 3 CD set, limited to 500 copies and comes with a Brainwaves logo badge... |
3XCD | Limited to 500 copies | |
| 2006 | "Giascei" | cryosphere | CD | Glacial Movements |
External links
- Troum.com - official website
- [ Discography of Troum] at AMG