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 (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 into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. TROUM uses music 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 “dark atmospheric ambient industrial”, “transcendental drone” or just “Tiefenmusik”. TROUM doesn’t work with synths or samplers, the sounds are mainly created “by hand” to reach a broader sensibility. TROUM uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of the music
and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music seen as a door to unknown & alien dimensions with pre-verbal and pre-symbolic origins. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself:

“Emerging from the industrial-ambient underground of the 1990s, TROUM have remained devoted to a singular artistic intent: to create transformative listening experiences, dense with atmosphere and charged with inner movement, where sound becomes a living presence rather than a composition.”

[Frederic Arbour / Cyclic Law]

TAGS: POST-INDUSTRIAL DRONE, SUBCONSCIOUS, PSYCHOANALYSIS, DREAM, TRANSCENSION and TRANSFORMATION

Tiefenmusik Reaching Our Unconscious Minds

To Pan Eon 10″ (collaboration with INADE)
Grote Mandrenke CD
Mare Idiophonika CD
Eald-Ge-Streon CD / do-LP

AIWS CD / LP
Xibipiio CD (collaboration with RAISON D’ETRE)
Shutun CD (collaboration with ALL SIDES)
To A Child dancing in the Wind CD (Collab. with MARTYN BATES)