DA​-​PU​-​RI​-​TO​-​JO (The Singles 2004​-​2016) by TROUM

 

Troum has been always some sort of legend in terms of its own publishing and concert activity. Associated with Drone records, a small label famous for its singles series, it made a brand of its own with evocative, dark ambient.

Zoharum releases a compilation of their singles from over the course of 12 years - between 2004 and 2016.

It definitely shows the slow metamorphosis and evolution of their craft. Coming from the influences of psychodelia and prepared electroacoustic music rather than synth based ( as they mentioned many times - they don't use synths, samplers and sequencers) they elaborate on quite a romantic way of expression - a somewhat natural in this field but also not being pushed too hard and very honest way of their artistic expression. 

Their own version of atmospheric ambient operates on low frequencies and  glitched and delayed for of hymn like tracks but never ceases to amaze how much you can achieve through using very simple techniques within the washed out clichees of the genre that rarely helps to understand why there is no progression.

But Troum in many ways is master of its own terms and can be refreshed by the fact that it has its own working ethos.

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