Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Doom jazz. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
German darkjazz cult band Bohren & Der Club of Gore have announced their new album ‘Patchouli Blue’ It’s the group’s first new album in six years and their ninth overall. The band have built a loyal international fanbase on the back of their trademark ‘Doom Jazz’ sound and count musical icons such as Mike Patton and Stephen O’Malley among their fans. Strictly instrumental, this band and their sound have the healing power to survive these hectic modern times.
In a statement the band said “Dear friends of music where hardly anything happens, BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE is happy and proud, to announce their new album. You may have already given up hope, but miracles happen: PATCHOULI BLUE - instrumental, slow, uneventful - as always. Love it, hate it, listen to it.”
The current roster of band members in Bohren & der Club of Gore’s German outfit include Christoph Clöser (saxophone/piano/Fender Rhodes electric piano/vibraphone), Robin Rodenberg (bass guitar/double bass) and Morten Gass (synthesizer/mellotron/organ/Fender Rhodes electric piano/8-string bass/vocoder). Bohren & der Club of Gore’s Patchouli Blue, released courtesy of IpecacRecordings and it’s the band’s follow-up to 2014’s Piano Nights, and the outfit’s fifth album to arrive via the San Francisco-based label.
The band played two sold out shows in London’s Round Chapel recently (2019) and will tour the UK again in 2020.
Tracklisting: Total falsch / Verwirrung am Strand / Glaub mir kein Wort / Patchouli Blue / Deine Kusine / Vergessen & Vorbei / Sollen es doch alle wissen / Tief gesunken / Zwei Herzen aus Gold / Sag mir, wie lang / Meine Welt Ist schön