Troum – Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo / The Singles 2004 – 2016 (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Drone, Soundscape.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: German Troum duo has now been active since 1997. They released an impressive discography and have worked with numerous –and famous artists. This album is a compilation featuring songs originally released on 7″ (and one digital EP) format in between 2004 and 2016. We get a total of twelve tracks.
Content: This work is a nice and diversified selection of tracks. Pure dark reverie and Cinematographic passages have been alternated with harsher Noise-Ambient cuts. The work also brings raw-sounding Soundscapes recovered with abyssal atmospheres. The last part of the album is definitely Cinematographic.
+ + + : I like this kind of ‘compilation’ featuring a selection of singles. But this album also gives us an opportunity to (re)discover the wider spectrum of influences created by Troum. Diversity is the keyword to introduce this work, which is however dominated by harsh and raw Soundscape and Cinematographic style. I like the unrefined format of “Betonwolke” and the anguishing sphere hanging over “Gruoen”. But my favorite pieces are right at the end; a total Cinematographic experience illustrated on “Victoria” and “Unreleased Theme For River Endscene”.
– – – : The singles by Troum have never been my favorites although I have to admit there are some forgotten treasures featured on this work.
Conclusion: This is the kind of compilation I like; a great selection of singles you now get together on one and the same disc. It’s an essential item to complete your Troum collection.
Best songs: “Victoria”, “Unreleased Theme For River Endscene”, “Betonwolke”, “Gruoen”, “Aerugo”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.troum.com / www.facebook.com/Troum.Bremen
Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum
About Troum
Troum is a Bremen-based German drone and dark ambient duo founded in early 1997 by Stefan Knappe and Martin Gitschel after the end of their previous project Maeror Tri. Alongside their work as artists, the members are behind Drone Records, which has documented a wide range of experimental and ambient music since the 1990s. The project focuses on multi-layered, largely guitar-based and tape-based drones, combining electric and acoustic instruments, voices and field recordings while avoiding samplers and computer-generated sound. Troum have issued a large series of albums, EPs and collaborations through labels including Transgredient Records, Essence Music, Zoharum, Cold Spring and Cyclic Law, among them long-form albums such as “Tjukurrpa” and, later, “Acouasme” on Cold Spring. “Da-Pu-Ri-To-Jo / The Singles 2004-2016,” the release under review here, gathers rare and single tracks from that period into one Zoharum edition.
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