Bohren and Der Club of Gore

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I've heard "Geisterfaust" a couple of times now. it's not hitting me as hard as "Black Earth" but the first track on it "Zeigefinger" can stand up against anything on the previous album. The moment where the first drumbeat somes in (about 4 minutes into the 20 minute track) is a total wtf! moment. It takes your breath away. They really have pushed the slowing of the tempo as far as they can go here. maybe too far. "Ringfinger" is so slow it makes me feel anxious.

The record is already out btw but, if you havent got any albums by them, "Black Earth" is still the one to get.

http://ilmixor.blogspot.com/2005/03/bohren-und-der-club-of-gore-midnight.html

Just downloaded "Sunset Mission"...perfectamundo

And Dolores is completely stunning too

I am unfamiliar with Jena but gladly would I join that Club of Gore! And "drilling."

Or, I suppose, "to drill." Bitte!

Yeah, the new album is outstanding. I kind of like the shorter song lengths.

great band and really curious to listen to their new album.

yeah I really need to pick this up

okay this is the shit...an album recommendation?

Any of them, really.

I would say Black Earth over Dolores, but you can't go wrong with either

this is exactly the kind of music I am enjoying right now

Local Garda, "Black Earth".

is the one to get.

also try the band Zu

Yeah, "Black Earth" is the best, but I like "Midnight Radio" a lot too.

Yeah I play Black Earth on the reg

Black Earth def. the best of the ones I've heard, but I like the new one too.

black earth 7thed

I'm not that crazy about Midnight Radio. I like Sunset Mission & Black Earth best.

Any recommendations about the earlier albums? I like Sunset Mission but haven't heard the others.

also try the band Zu

I think Zu are great but I'd never baldly recommend them to someone on the basis they liked Bohren and especially not Ronan here.

I don't think it really matters which of the two most recent Bohren albums you get first, 's all good

agreed on zu. don't really see any similarity at all. (both on ipecac now? uh... horns?)

get everything by this band

31.03.2009 Spaceland (+VoidOvVoices), Los Angeles (US)

01.04.2009 Great American Music Hall (+VoidOvVoices), San Francisco (US)

03.04.2009 Le Poisson Rouge (+VoidOvVoices), New York City (US)

got tickets for the nyc show. pretty psyched.

anyone ever seen them before?

SO bummed they're not coming to Portland.

yeah, not exactly the most comprehensive U.S. tour...

but you guys got corrupted a little while back! still bummed that they didn't make it to the east coast for that.

I saw 4 Corrupted shows in a row. So yeah, I feel lucky.

this band fucking rule...

It's true!

Who's seen them live?

I saw them a couple of years ago, they sound just like the records! i.e. very moody and layered, with the occasional tap of the drums.

Ha ha I knew you'd love this band Ronan!

i wish there was an entire genre of Sunset Mission-inspired doom swank

i saw em live. so good.

i have not listened to 'geisterfaust' before and so far it is my favourite thing; it seems to isolate the one thing that they do in a way that is purer than the others i have heard

not unrelatedly, the necks are not on spotify

would love to see them live.

Haha yep Tim is pretty much the exact type of thing I like. I did hear them about two years ago but only properly got into them via spotify...

Not sure if you noticed but i recco'd them on your recent late night noir music thread. I had been expecting you to say "oh yeah I already love these guys..."

would love to see them live.

i tried to bring them to glasgow but it fell through. one day!

brilliant - i'm sure it will happen!

Apparently they don't like to tour
Which is a shame
Their Toronto show also fell through

saw em live. they played in the dark. ruled.

midnight radio also kind of great. wonder what kind of intra-band communication led to the various versions of their appproach seen on the difft. records

Definitely my favorite musical moment at Roadburn 2010. And that's a festival FULL of amazing acts.

Sooooo good. Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corp. is also pretty good in a similar vein.

After reading the heroin Jazz thread I've been listening to everything that's on Spotify. And looking at the pictures on discogs, their vinyl releases look great too, although they all seem to be very limited editions and probably unavailable anywhere.

so good live. they introduced themselves a few songs into the set, "this is ze bass player, this is ze drummer, i am ze saxophonist" and then shut up and played for another hour.

glad to hear it. probably seeing them live later this month

from their website
Dear friends of uneventfull music,

BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE is glad and proud to announce a new release (March 2011):

BEILEID - uneventfull music is coming home: three pieces, 37 minutes, including coverversion of WARLOCKS “Catch my heart”.

Keep it sick!

Can't wait for this! I hope it will continue in their jazzy side.

Also I just noticed that I missed a 2010 release called 'MITLEID LADY,' is it good?

Is that the Latitudes thing? It's great, but an insane rip off (10 minutes for like $15).

three pieces, 37 minutes, including coverversion of WARLOCKS “Catch my heart”.

!!!

I'm going to show my ignorance here, but what is WARLOCKS “Catch my heart”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91YWITPk6g&feature=fvw

Nice Jesters Of Destiny reference for the artwork :

http://www.thesirenssound.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Bohren-Der-Club-Of-Gore-Beileid.jpg

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/j/e/jestersofdestiny91003.jpg

Listening now.

have any of you heard a band called Heroin And Your Veins? Sort of a lame name but really nice music, a little bit like Bohren, kinda more surfy but has that same dark loungey vibe. Very Twin Peaks. I came across them randomly on Spotify where you can hear their first album: http://open.spotify.com/user/iamronan/playlist/6lUvjeuYGn0KnEoR4galTA

bump...anyone?

just checked out one of their videos. nice!

I've not heard the new one yet, highly anticipating it.

weirdly all the songs sound a bit like "heroin" by superpitcher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtPAZvjx2GA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtMAlkDFfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juSQDUEtMBY

x-post yeah still need to hear the new bohren

Will check out Heroin and Your Veins, thanks for the link Ronan!

new album is cool

bohren posted a heroin and your veins link to their fb earlier this week.

they also posted this band: http://open.spotify.com/track/3oSHpXFVbvC4yc59NZAWkO

"dale cooper quartet"....just in case the massive twin peaks love in this music wasn't there for all to see!

It won't stop raining. This is good music. Loving Dolores tonight.

http://www.mescaline-injection.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bohren_pianonights.jpg

NEW BOHREN RECORD:

Dear friends of uneventful music,

"Sailing without wind" -
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE is glad and proud to announce a new release:
"PIANO NIGHTS" - 9 pieces or 60 minutes of music on its way to a full stop.

Date of release: 24-01-2014

been listening to midnight radio a lot recently. the second track is one of the best things they ever did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXJVroIzo54

so whats the new one like?

streaming on pitchfork advance

http://pitchfork.com/advance/319-piano-nights/

Just discovered them via the Ulver thread. Wow! Thick, dark, mahogany jacket wearing . Some of this sounds really familiar to me in a way. Why on earth is it making me think of eighties UK TV, Only Fools and Horses or something? I'm listening to Sunset Mission. Is the other stuff different?

I think Sunset Mission is the best of theirs, sometimes I think it's the best record, ever. Dolores is great too, kind of similar late nite smokey vibe to sunset mission, also has great sax playing. I don't think any of the others have the jazzy sax, but they have their moments, more dark and brooding. I think Black Earth is the darkest one, I don't remember. I don't play them as much as Sunset Mission, and I still haven't heard their first record. I'm excited they have a new one and what a great cover!!!

i couldn't imagine this music working without the sax, but i'll give em a try.

I was wrong it's Geisterfaust, not Black Earth that I found the darkest. I can't even make it through the whole album. Really heavy somber music. I'm listening to Beileid right now and it's really nice and lazy.

geisterfaust is my favorite. i don't like the debut much, it has the best song titles though.

cheers Jacob.

impressed by people who can tell their albums apart (no diss to their albums)

i have just only discovered them with the new album which i enjoy - if that is the right word - very much. their extremely slow music in between jazz and ambient also reminds of someone else but i don't know whom. the slow motion draws me in like crazy, it is like a maelstroem turning around which swallows me. it is late night music for sure, i can imagine it matching perfectly with a joint. in a way this music seems to destroy or better to annihilate time. gorgeous stuff, i am very much looking forward in discovering the earlier albums.

i kind of hate the vocals on the new one

vocals? uh oh

vocals? i am sure i'd hate them too if i heard them, gr8080.

ok i guess it was just a mike patton guest appearance on the 2011 album i was thinking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHPkug85Qk

still not a great move

DARK JAZZ

DARK JAZZ

DRAKE JAYZ

DARK JAZZ

DARK effing JAZZ

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/image_zpsba4a46f7.jpg

DARK JAZZ

I mentioned this to jazz fans and they admonished me for calling it jazz.

tonight is definitely a DARK JAZZ night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-Cjil-20o

Should of listened to that song all the way through before posting it here, sorry about that. The vocals come in and ruin the heroin jazz vibes.

BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE/ official
5 hrs ·

You patient friends of uneventful music,
after years of gloom and desperation, the day has come.
No more illegal copies, no more unauthorized releases, no more grotesque Schwarzmarktpreise, here is the real (and legal) stuff -
Today we announce the following vinyl reissues and release dates:

11.11. “Sunset Mission“ // first time on vinyl
02.12. “Black Earth“
13.01. “Geisterfaust“ // first time on vinyl

Available around these dates in all fine record stores around the world. For more details get in touch with our distributors in your market. Or order via our website: http://found.ee/BohrenShop

Balance (AU)
PIAS / RoughTrade (Benelux)
Border (Scandinavia)
Modulor (FR)
PIAS (UK)
Self Distribuzione (IT)
Disk Union (JP)
Soyuz (RUS)
Forced Exposure (USA/CAN)

Spread the word!

whenever I'm listening to Black Earth I'm convinced they're the best band in the world

Do Bohren translate their stage banter when touring abroad?

"Hallo, wir sind Bohren und der Club of Gore. Wir spielen heute 2 Stücke mehr. Allerdings sind die neuen kürzer. Im Endeffekt kommt es also auf's selbe heraus."

"Als nächstes kommt eins unserer Protestlieder. Es richtet sich gegen Teilnahmslosigkeit,"

"Das nächste Stück ist nach dem selben Prinzip aufgebaut wie alle unsere Stücke: Keine Möbel, aber 'ne Putzfrau!"

We will never poll this record, unfortunately, so let me just say "MAXIMUM BLACK" FTW

A discography poll would be more fun I think

New track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_d31HP34MQ

Album out January 2020

very nice, thanks!

DARK JAZZ

This was our dog the first time she heard Bohren on the stereo. It very much got her attention.

Zita hearing doom jazz for the first time. pic.twitter.com/pJ9P9emVKS

— Caustic Cover Critic (@Unwise_Trousers) January 15, 2019

They were very moody last night at the Round Chapel in east London, as ever (they're there again tonight). Down to a trio now, the keys guy and double bass guy share the percussive duties between playing notes on their respective instruments, which seems easy enough when you're playing at 0.01 mph. Sax dude was very chatty too in a self-parodic lugubrious German kind of way - "this is a song about a girl who went to America...(long pause)...she's dead now".

New album out today

I like it

i am a little burned out on their slomo shtick. apparently the drummer left. probably he fell asleep while drumming.

btw i saw them a while ago in the columbia theater in berlin. it was packed. and i think there were quite a lot of musicians there. i even talked to some. on the whole not a vey memorable concert. their song banter is half funny but their music is just too slow so that i can enjoy it live. it works better at home late at night with dimmed lights or candles, a glass of wine, maybe a joint and some deep conversations.