Drill & the Club of Gore

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Drill & the Club of Gore
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General information
origin Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
Genre (s) Dark jazz
founding 1988
Website www.bohrenundderclubofgore.de
Founding members
Morten Gass
Double bass , drums
 Robin Rodenberg
Reiner Henseleit (until 1996)
Drums
 Thorsten Benning (until 2015)
Current occupation
Organ, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, baritone guitar, drums
 Morten Gass
Double bass, drums
 Robin Rodenberg
Saxophone , Fender Rhodes, piano , vibraphone , drums
 Christoph Clöser (since 1997)

Bohren & the Club of Gore were originally founded in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1988 as a heavy metal or hardcore band , but now they play a crossover of jazz , doom metal and ambient called dark jazz .

history

Founding members of the band, which was originally just called Bohren , were Thorsten Benning, Morten Gass, Robin Rodenberg and Reiner Henseleit in 1988. The latter left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Christoph Clöser the following year. As a tribute to the Dutch group Gore , the name was expanded in 1993 to include "& the Club of Gore", as this had inspired them to play instrumental music.

In the first years the musicians played metal and hardcore in different variations, in 1992 a change of style followed , which was of great importance for the band: From then on they produce a unique mixture of jazz, doom metal and ambient with which they became known .

At the end of 2015, drummer Thorsten Benning left the band. The remaining members have continued to work as a trio since then.

style

The instruments used are electric bass or double bass , tenor saxophone , piano , Rhodes piano or vibraphone and drums played with a broom . The predominantly instrumental pieces are characterized by minimalist slowness and meditative , spherical moods. On their website the band describes their style as "doom ridden jazz music". At the latest on the double CD Midnight Radio , released in 1995, all touches of metal had disappeared from the music. What has remained is the solemn, often gloomy atmosphere, which has earned them the genre term "horror jazz" from various quarters. Or more descriptive: "Music on the verge of standing still". Self-deprecatingly and in relation to the Manowar song that has become a slogan, “Other bands play, Manowar kill”, Morten Gass said in 2003 about the band: “Other bands play, drilling bore!”. For the Kulturspiegel , the long pieces were “barren, gloomy soundscapes”. The daily newspaper described them as “threatening and desolate” and “dark slowness” and named them as film counterparts David Lynch and John Carpenter . However, Morten Gass clearly leans towards the older horror films of George Romero and Dario Argento . Christoph Clöser opposes the opinion that the tenacious simplicity of the music can also be easily produced: “If you play so little, every note is important. The decision-making process takes on a completely different meaning. You work hard on the details. Working on the pieces is really physically demanding. "

Live presentation

The stage is “darkened” or is at least “in the semi-darkness” with “dim lighting” by “a couple of tiny halogen spotlights ”, whose lighting follows the beat. Dressed in “stylish suits”, the musicians comment on their instrumental works in a gloomy, whispered manner in order to then “listen to” the sounds they produce. Nobody plays themselves in the foreground, no front man attitude, no solo escapade should tarnish the holistic effect of the acoustic structure.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Piano nights
  DE 49 02/07/2014 (1 week)
Patchouli Blue
  DE 21st January 31, 2020 (1 week)
  • 1993: Luder, Samba and taverns ( demo , self-published)
  • 1994: Black Sabbath for Dean Martin ( split - single with forest , epistrophy)
  • 1994: Bohren & the Club of Gore (single, Burt Reynolds Mustache Records)
  • 1994: Gore Motel (Album, Epistrophy)
  • 1995: Midnight Radio (Album, Epistrophy)
  • 2000: Sunset Mission (album, Wonder Records)
  • 2002: Black Earth (Album, Wonder Records)
  • 2005: Geisterfaust (album, Wonder Records)
  • 2008: Dolores (Album, PIAS Recordings )
  • 2010: Pity Lady (single, limited edition, Latitudes Records)
  • 2011: Condolences ( EP with Mike Patton , PIAS Recordings)
  • 2014: Piano Nights (Album, PIAS Recordings)
  • 2016: Bohren for Beginners (Compilation, PIAS Recordings)
  • 2020: Patchouli Blue (Album, PIAS Recordings)

Web links

Commons : Drill & the Club of Gore  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So in the 'history of the band' on their homepage
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Tim Stüttgen: Journey to the end of the little fingers . Monotony and beauty, doom jazz and "Geisterfaust": The Mülheim band Bohren & the Club of Gore is perhaps one of the slowest music collectives in the world - its music sounds as threatening as it is desolate, like the soundtrack to a David Lynch or a John Carpenter. In: the daily newspaper . April 30, 2005, culture, p. 21 ( taz.de [accessed on July 12, 2015]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Drilling and the Club of Gore. In: laut.de. Retrieved May 11, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Martin Büsser: Drilling and the Club of Gore: Gore Motel . In: Pop and Destruction (= test  card. Contributions to pop history ). No. 1 . testcard-Verlag, Oppenheim 1995, ISBN 3-931555-00-3 , reviews, p. 253 .
  5. ↑ BUDCOG, Gore story. In: www.bohrenundderclubofgore.de. Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Gore story on the band's own website (Engl.)
  7. ↑ a b Bernd Sievers: Drilling & the Club of Gore . Ghost fist. In: Eclipsed . No. 73 , June 2005, CD reviews, p. 47 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Dallach, Marianne Wellershoff: Drilling & The Club of Gore: Geisterfaust . In: Kulturspiegel . May 2005, New CDs - Pop, p. 39 ( spiegel.de [accessed on May 11, 2014]).
  9. ↑ a b c Jens Balzer: Three types of metal . Bohren and the Club of Gore, Jesu and Isis played in the Volksbühne. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 14, 2005, p. ? ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on May 11, 2014]).
  10. ↑ Chart discography Germany