TROUM : Biography & Info :October 2014

“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 post industrial group MAEROR TRI(which existed from 1988 to 1996). TROUM is the old German word for "DREAM". The dream seen
as a central manifestation of the UNconscious symbolizes the aim of TROUM to lead the listener intoa hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. TROUM usesmusic 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.
TROUMs compositions are influenced by post-industrial, dark ambient and minimal /drone-music.
Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flutes, pipes, mouth-organ, melodica,
gongs, field recordings, loops, 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 “darkatmospheric ambient industrial”, "transcendental drone" or just “Tiefenmusik”. TROUM doesn't workwith synths, samplers or computer-soundsources, the sounds are created "by hand" to reach abroader sensibility. TROUM uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of themusic and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music seen as a door tounknown & alien dimensions with pre-verbal and pre-symbolic origins. Music as an expression of themystery of existence itself: A tool for the eternal psychic renascence.
Live appearances: TROUM performed several times at various venues and did small tours throughout
Europe, Russia, USA & Canada, and played or toured with BAD SECTOR, CISFINITUM, SUNN O))),AEOGA, AIDAN BAKER/NADJA, VOICE OF EYE, INADE, REUTOFF, KRENG, ZOVIET FRANCE,and many others. TROUM also performed at several bigger festivals like: NURSERY INJECTION Stockholm (1998), LIEU UNIQUE–Nantes (2000), ARTOOZ-Limoges (Fr) (2001 & 2003), TOON –Haarlem (NL) (2001), ARCHAIKA & TECHNOLOGIYA - Moscow (2002), SEE[H]EAR-Festival Den
Haag (2004), WROCLAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL (2005), SCHIPHORST-AVANTGARDE-FESTIVAL(2006), BRAINWAVES-Festival (Boston, 2006), CoC ART (Torun, 2009), WGT Leipzig (2009),
INCUBATE-Festival Tilburg (2009), PHOBOS III (2011), MENUO JUODARAGIS-festival Lithuania(2012), EUROPEAN MEDIA ART Festival (Osnabrück, 2013), DENOVALI SWINGFEST (2013)...
TROUM runs their own label TRANSGREDIENT Records for CD-outputs, but has also releases on
many other labels.

Discography - Selection / Main Releases:-RYNA CD (1998, Myotis Records) first album (re-released on Transgredient in 2006)
MORT AUX VACHES: SEN CD (2000, Staalplaat) second album, rec. live in the VPRO studio
Amsterdam Dec. 1999 / re-issue as do-LP and do-picLP by Equation Records in 2008
the TJUKURRPA – TRILOGY (Harmonies, Drones, Rhythms & Pulsations) 3 x CD (2001-2003,Transgredient Records)
MNEMONIC INDUCTION CD collaboration-work with YEN POX (2002, Malignant Records)
SIGQAN CD (2003, Desolation House / Release Records) 5th full album, re-issue 2009 on Transgredient
AUTOPOIESIS pic-LP (2004, Small Voices) re-issue on CD by ZOHARUM 2010AJIN pic-12” (2005, Equation Records)
TO A CHILD, DANCING IN THE WIND (collaboration-CD with MARTYN BATES) (2006,Transgredient)
SHUTUN CD (2006, Old Europa Cafe) collaboration with Troum live-member ALL SIDESAIWSCD (2007, Transgredient Records) 6th full length album
CREATURA PER CREATURAM CONTINETUR (Kreuzung 2) CD (collab-album with REUTOFF(2008, Indiestate). Vinyl-version (do-LP) with bonus material 2012
EALD-GE-STREON CD / do-CD / do-LP (2009, Beta-lactam Ring Records) 7th full length album
DOMINIUM VISURGIS CD (collab-album with NADJA) (2010, Transgredient Rec.)
MARE IDIOPONIKA CD (2010, Tourette Records + Silken Tofu in two different editions) 8th album
SAIWS pic-7" (2011, Equation Records, in transparent liquid-gel & sand-cover
GROTE MANDRENKE CD (2012, Beta-lactam Ring Records) - 9th album
NIHTES NIHT
CD (collaboration with AIDAN BAKER) (2013, Alone At Last)
MARE MORPHOSIS CD (2013, Transgredient) - the 10th full-length album & also the third part in the'power romantic' -trilogy (Mare-Mandrenke-Morphosis)
out next: Troum & raison d'être - 'De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu' CD (Essence Music)
contact : troum@dronerecords.de

http://www.troum.com

troum.bandcamp.com

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