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TROUM – Mare morphosis (2013) review

January 10, 2014

TROUM – Mare morphosis (2013) review

TROUM  “Mare morphosis” (Drone Records, 2013)
For more than 15 years, the prolific festival favourites
TROUM have been creating atmospheric drones through a variety of instruments,
including guitar, bass, accordion, balalaika, flute, melodica, field
recordings, pre-recorded tapes, innumerable found sounds, and the all-important
“cosmic particles”. In other words, just about everything but your standard
synths and samplers. The German duo’s name translates as “Dream”, but they
prefer to use it as an acronym for the more descriptive Tiefenmusic Reaching Our
Unconscious Minds. Mare Morphosis is the third part of their “Power Romantic”
trilogy that began back in 2009 with a 7” that reworked several musical themes
of J.S. Bach.
               The
single, nearly hour-long track soars into outer space on atmospheric clouds,
fluttering like butterfly wings, yet occasionally settling down to earth before
gathering steam to once again float majestically into the heavens. There are
classical elements woven inside transcendent episodes of immense beauty pierced
by a pounding drumkit that anchors the whole thing ot the Earth. If you’ve shed
tears over the near-religious experience of hearing Kitaro’s symphonic ambient
creations or reached Nirvana during Ligetti’s “Lux Aeterna”, then TROUM are
sure to please.
Review made by Jeff Penczak/2014
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