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TROUM: Tjukurpa (Part Two - Drones) Release Year: 2001 Format: CD Tracklist: 1: Scurphen 15:35 Total Length: 61:29 min General Facts: Troum is a Bremen, Germany centred project consisting of GLIT[s]CH and BARAK[H] (who is also in charge of Drone Records). They had once been a part of Ambient Industrial outfit named Maeror Tri which ended its existence in 1996, but in 1997, Troum was born. Troum is the old German notion for "dream" and the idea of the dream as the central manifest of the unconscious should symbolise the aim of Troum. The music can, according to the members be categorised as Dark Atmospheric Ambient Industrial, Transcendental Noise or just "Tiefenmusik". Troum prefer to work "by hands" before working with samplers and computers. Part Two: Drones is the second part of the Tjukurpa trilogy which started with the release of Part One: Harmonies and will be continued with Part Three: Rhythms. Review: As a consequence of the concept of this CD and the name of this project, I have been listening a lot to this CD while resting or before I go to sleep. It's quite nice to just have in the background; it is monotonous without many disturbing sounds. There are quite small changes in the sound, in fact so small that one sometimes hardly notices when another sound is added to the music. There are no stark contrasts to be heard here so this album easily places itself in the background and the listening sort of becomes a subconscious one. Drones is mainly composed of a very long, traversing, and quite meditative drone-ambience. There is a constant flow of dark sounds in each track and I think many of these five tracks create some kind of "moving-in-a-dark-tunnel" effect. This is especially evident in the second track Dhren. The album almost completely lacks clear rhythm sounds or percussion, the only exception I remember at the moment is in the third and fourth tracks were a quite low Industrial tinged percussion is featured. In general the rhythm is sublime though. The mastering isn't always first-class and it feels like it limits this CD from being heard a louder volume levels which is a shame. The sounds are quite blurred and it feels like this would have better with a slightly clearer sound. Nevertheless, Drones is a nice album that fills a certain purpose, namely creating a dark atmosphere in a selected environment without using any unnecessary shortcuts or samples, just a plain flow of drone-ambience. If this is what you're a hunting for, then Troum is the project you ought to aim for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Click here to enter the Troum website - Click here to contact Troum |
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