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TROUM Tjukurrpa: Part One Harmonies (Transgredient) cd 16.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Stefan Knappe of Troum has started the Transgredient label as an outlet for CD releases, thus preserving the vinyl-only purity of his Drone Records label and its ongoing series of seven inch singles. Troum is the extention of the Maeror Tri project which was an incredibly prolific isolationist / post-industrial group throughout the '90s. Armed with a barrage of guitars, miasmic loops, and tricked out reverb / echo / delay effects, Maeror Tri undertook a bleak and at times nightmarish route in search of the drone supreme. While culling from Maeror Tri's extensive drone production techniques, Troum's sound is far lighter -- but still never sounds as gentle (or space-rock-y) as something like Windy & Carl or Roy Montgomery. Repetitive and subtly beautiful melodies rise out of the waters of Troum's cold swirling ambience, which grow in intensity throughout each of the seven lengthy pieces on this disc. While the members of Troum have been recording for well over a decade, it is still a wonder to hear new material as they continue to challenge themselves to improve on the what they seemingly have already perfected: the task of creating the ultimate drone.
RealAudio clip:
"Licht Btandung"
RealAudio clip: "Wrotasfer"

album cover TROUM Tjukurrpa: Part Three Rhythms and Pulsations (Transgredient) cd 16.98
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Yes, it is stating the obvious; but the AQ endorsed dronologist duo Troum does in fact round out their Tjukurrpa triology with an album centered upon their use of rhythms, loops, and percussive mantras. Given their prediliction for post-industrial sensibilities, sonically represented on their Mort Aux Vache album and in their previous incarnation as Maeror Tri, Troum's ritualist approach toward percussion makes sense. Within the first couple of tracks, Troum condense a tight mechanical loop from a metal bashing clamor in line with Test Dept and early Einstuerzende Neubauten. When Troum introduce their effects laden guitars to those rhythms, they come up with a weird fusion of My Bloody Valentine's heavy-lidded distortion and Throbbing Gristle's rhythmic palette. After these tracks, the rhythms drift into the background where aqueous fluctuations become the foundation for their guitar excursions. Here, Troum are far more successful, where their ominous drones can really take off and rival such dronecore guitar gods as Sunn O))), Earth, Main, and Boris. The percussion returns on the album's finale with considerable more panache than the album's earlier workouts. Looping a simple pattern from a set of hand drums, Troum sweep guitar drones and sublime melodies like the best work of Muslimgauze or Rapoon.
MPEG Stream:
"Ignis Sacer"
MPEG Stream: "Saiwala"
MPEG Stream: "Reigen Taumelnder Geister"

album cover TROUM Tjukurrpa: Part Two Drones (Transgredient) cd 16.98
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Troum's second installment in their Tjukurrpa trilogy is self-evidently subtitled "Drones" following the equally droning, but far more placid "Harmonies" of Part One. Since their days in the prolific isolationist ensemble Maeror Tri, the two members of Troum continue to masterfully craft incredible dronework through densely processed sounds, mostly originating from guitars and bass, but have also used vocal chants, lutes, accordion, and percussion. "Tjukurrpa" translates as the physical, spiritual, and psychological state of dreamtime for the Australian Aboriginals, symbolizing Troum's intention to construct a cathartic transcendence through their hypnogogic drones. Such agendas may hedge themselves into the earnest flakiness of New Age-isms, but the dreams that Troum externalize through their music are incredibly grim, but not without their ashen beauty. Such nightly visions translate as an ever-shifting fog of shadowy sound, that billows, pulses, and fluctuates with the same fluid invasiveness of a wintery fog through a forest. Troum's success comes from the revelation of details within these miasmic drones, which at times are simple sonic whisps that decay through washes of digital reverb, and at others are massive harmonies which emphatically protrude from the ambience below. Troum's "Tjukrrpa: Part 2" stands as darker versions of the buried folk of Flying Saucer Attack or the sleepytime bliss of My Bloody Valentine. Very highly recommended work from one of the most consistently great bands working today!
MPEG Stream:
"Dhren"
MPEG Stream: "Afgod"
MPEG Stream: "Tiefenraush"

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