Troum | Artist
Troum is a German drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music project formed 1997 in Bremen, Germany by Stefan Knappe aka Baraka[H], and Martin Gitschel aka Glit[S]ch. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records. Prior to Troum, the two members were active in the influential ambient/industrial group Maeror Tri which was formed in 1988. "Troum" is the old German word for "dream" which is seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious. The word 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. Their aim is 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. To-date the band has released 30 studio albums including collaborations with like-minded artists such as Yen Pox, Christian Renou, Martyn Bates, All Sides, Nadja, Aidan Baker and Raison d'être. Standout albums include the ambitious three-part Tjukurrpa series: Tjukurrpa (Part 1: Harmonies) (2001), Tjukurrpa (Part 2: Drones) (2001) and Tjukurrpa (Part 3: Rhythms and Pulsations) (2003), plus Shutûn (2006) and Eald-ge-stréon (2009). As a matter of interest, the word "Tjukurrpa" comes from one of the Australain Aboriginal languages and refers to origins and powers embodied in country, places, objects, songs and stories. It is a way of seeing and understanding the world and connects people to country and to each other through shared social and knowledge networks. The band's use of a spiral as their logo, is a graphical expression of the trance-inducing potential of their 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.
Artist Website: wikipedia/Troum
Featured Albums: Troum
Related Artists: Maeror Tri, Screaming Corpses
