Label: Transgredient Records – TR-07 Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 15 May 2010 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Drone, Ambient
Everything recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 at Ghutô-M Studios near Weser-river in Bremen, Germany. No overdubs/processings made afterwards. Released in an 8-panel copper/black digipak with rough cream-coloured cardboard stock.
Label: Transgredient Records – TR-09 Series: Power Romantic – 3 Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: Dec 2013 Style: Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Post Rock
This is the third & final part in the “Power Romantic” series, released end of 2013 on Transgredient Records as CD (TR-09). “What comes with the Power Romantic trilogy (which pt. 1 and 2 are: Mare Idiophonika, Grote Mandrenke) is brooding from the core of Troum’s universe. Relating Troum with strong Romantic tropisms is like sewing an endless canvas. In every musical piece they work, the two musicians BarakaH and Glit[s]ch navigate a vast sea of sound, recalling the Romantic feeling in front of deep landscapes that reflect the very soul, threatening in a voluptuous appeal the observer to dissolve in the totality. Troum’s attraction to the notion of Dissolution is felt every time that the sound waves inflate to shape a luminous drone, every time that the pulsation melts into a magmatic rumbling. And what about the beauty of sadness, celebrated since the days of Maeror Tri…
That sea of sound, of profound melancholic drones and waves gets its monument with the Power Romantic trilogy in which Troum show their skill in harmony, but not only. Drones and harmony still reign but a clear way is designed for melody and rhythms (as it already was in Tjukurrpa pt. 3). The oceanic feeling is fueled by new movements, like a storm upon and under the fluid. Mare morphosis, pt. 3 of the Power Romantic trilogy, opens as the very building of a Sunken Cathedral, with heavy rhythms like stone columns gently embraced by subtle sharpened melodic phrases. The whole soundscape navigates then by the tide and lets the strong motion of sound rumbling and driving to surface the heavy layers of undercurrents, bringing up to light their deep melancholic germ of melody. Mare morphosis definitely gives Troum’s music a new dimension, reflecting ancient waves, amplifying the power of Sehnsucht, drumming the drowning heart.” [Denis Boyer / Fear Drop]
Label: Cold Spring – CSR183CD Format: CD, Compilation Country: UK Released: 30 Sep 2013 Genre: Electronic Style: Drone, Dark Ambient
A collection of rare / deleted tracks from compilations Vol. II (1999-2002). Everything recorded by TROUM between November 1999 and May 2002 on analogue 8-track.
Track 1 recorded 11/1999, originally released on “Painted Black” CD (Tumult, 2002). Track 2 recorded 01/2001, originally released on “The Walls Are Whispering” CD (EE Tapes, 2003). Track 3 recorded 07/2001, originally released on “Automation” 2LP (Laub, 2001). Track 4 recorded 01/2002, originally released on “Idioscapes” CD (Idiosyncratics, 2007). Track 5 recorded 01/2002, originally released on “Thisconnected” CD (Thisco, 2002). Track 6 recorded 01/2002, originally released on “…In The Crystal Cage” CD (Ikonen, 2004). Track 7 recorded 01/2002, originally released on “Infernal Proteus” 4CD + Book (Ajna, 2002). Track 8 recorded 04/2002, originally released on “Lagrimas De Miedo 9” CD (Fear Drop, 2002). Track 9 recorded 05/2002, originally released on “I, Mute Hummings” CD (Ex Ovo, 2006).
