Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Discography

Bohren & der Club of Gore are a noir jazz band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning (drums), Morten Gass (keys), Reiner Henseleit (guitar), and Robin Rodenberg (upright / double bass). They play a crossover of jazz and ambient, which they self described as an “unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds”. Over the years they have continously reduced and compressed their music to extremes.

Originally, the members of Bohren, who were school friends, started out playing in various hardcore bands such as 7 Inch Boots and Chronical Diarrhoea in 1988. Driven by the idea of a more unique style of music, they formed Bohren (German word for drilling) in 1992 to play, as they called it, „doom ridden jazz music“. In 1993 the band released a 7“ep for Suggestion Records. 1993 also saw the band expand their name to Bohren & der Club of Gore, as a link to the Dutch instrumental band Gore, which inspired Bohren to play instrumental music. 1994 followed the longplayers Gore Motel and the double set Midnight Radio (1995), both on Epistrophy Records, where Bohren introduced its musical vision between slow jazz- ballads and doom-guitars.

Henseleit left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Christoph Clöser, a Cologne-based composer and musician in 1997, replacing the guitar with a saxophone at the same time.

(Read more at Last.fm)

Edit (11/11/09): Sorry folks, I've fucked the links for the Bohrend albums and just found the mistake right now. The mediafire links were bad, I've fixed them now. Sorry for that!

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Regular Studio Albums

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Dolores (2008)

Tracklist

1. Staub

2. Karin

3. Schwarze Biene (Black Maja)

4. Unkerich

5. Still am Tresen

6. Welk

7. Von Schaebeln

8. Orgelblut

9. Faul

10. Welten

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Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust (2005)

Tracklist

1. Zeigefinger

2. Daumen

3. Ringfinger

4. Mittelfinger

5. Kleiner Finger

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Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth (2002)

Tracklist

1. Midnight Black Earth

2. Crimson Ways

3. Maximum Black

4. Vigilante Crusade

5. Destroying Angels

6. Grave Wisdom

7. Constant Fear

8. Skeletal Remains

9. The Art of Coffins

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Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (2000)

Tracklist

1. Prowler

2. On Demon Wings

3. Midnight Walker

4. Street Tattoo

5. Painless Steel

6. Darkstalker

7. Nightwolf

8. Black City Skyline

9. Dead End Angels

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EP's

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Mitleid Lady (2009)

Tracklist

1. Mitleid Lady

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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here be Dragons

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Langs (Metropolis).
In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record the self-titled debut album which was released on Planet Mu Records in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman and Paris based vocalist Charlotte Cegarra join, forming the Ensemble into a sextet. London based violinist Sadie Anderson joined in 2008 to supply the group with extra power on stage.
The Netherlands has been TKDE’s homebase since 2007, while members have moved closer to each other to make composing and producing easier.

Apart from the mothership which is TKDE, there is another entity; The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is a live improv jazz/drone/doom sideproject consisting of TKDE members and a host of interchanging guest musicians.

Due to the vast possibilities within the band, the sound spectrum of TKDE is hard to capture within one specific composition. Moreover, the project will lean towards various styles depending on the respective members working together at a given time. A good mix between atmosphere and technique is always the strong basis for a TKDE composition.

Live TKDE fuse analog and digital as much as possible.

(Taken from Last.fm)

This is the newest record from 2009. Enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. Lead Squid
2. Caravan!
3. Embers
4. Sirocco
5. Mists of Krakatoa
6. Sharbat Gula
7. Samhain Labs
8. Seneca
9. The MacGuffin

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