Hi,

The press release as posted in the Newslist at http://
www.dronerecords.de/

Martyn BATES & TROUM – To a Child, Dancing in the Wind CD
(Transgredient Records TR-03, 2006) € 12.00
Nach über 2 Jahren konnte die lange geplante Zusammenarbeit von
TROUM mit MARTYN BATES endlich fertiggestellt werden. Gedichte
des irischen Dichters W.B.YEATS dienten als textliche Grundlage für
sechs Stücke voller Sehnsucht & Emotion, Drone-Harmonics treffen auf
expressiv gesungene Poesie....
“ - Profound songs inspired by YEATS-poems: The acoustic
transformation of the deepest yearning - For this release, the german
‘transcendental-drone’-duo TROUM teams up with the legendary british
singer / songwriter and EYELESS IN GAZA-member MARTYN BATES.
More than 2 years in the making, MARTYN BATES has sung & played
(mouth organ & melodica) over basic material TROUM provided –
consisting of harmonic minimal loops & basic song structures derived
from accordeon, e-bass & guitar, percussion), who were then also
responsible for the final subsequent additions mastering (adding more
guitar-work, voices & balalaika).
MARTYN BATES has chosen to sing four poems of the famous Irish
poet W.B.YEATS, and he did this with a most impressive sensitivity for
TROUMS very sublime & rather hidden harmonic structures. There are
also two instrumentals in a more experimental style on this disc, one
being a dark drone reprise of the main piece “MAD AS THE MIST AND
SNOW #2”. MARTYN’s voice is surely not something for everyone –
it’s of an extreme emotional & yearnful quality that might be not
easy to
stand – a yearning which is like a deep “cry out to the horizon”, to
something that is unreachable per se, feeling a passion that tears you
apart inside. This is pure emotional poetry transformed into yearnful
audible spherics!
Artwork: Daniel Crokaert, founder of the dream-ambience CDR-label
MYSTERY SEAS in Brussels and a long-time fan of both MARTYN
BATES & TROUM, has created a stunning 6-panel digipack using
pictures provided by Martyn.
The Artists: MARTYN BATES is the legendary british songwriter, being
active since the early 80’s, one half of EYELESS IN GAZA & also
30
working solo with other musicians and with Alan Trench as 12.000
DAYS. He has established a unique own style combining elements of
folk & various other influences with this remarkable singing, being
expressively poetic & highly emotional at any time.
TROUM is a german duo consisting of 2/3 of the remains of the
ambient-industrialists MAEROR TRI (last year saw a rennaisance of
M.T. with many re-releases of their works). TROUM describe their
music themselves as “transcendental drone-muzak”, a very
atmospheric & emotional but often also monumental and noisy,
hypnotically & at times trance-inducing rhythmic melange.
General Disc-Info: 6-panel 4-colour digipack, 6 tracks, 38:30 playtime”
[press release]
RELEASE DATE: 27. APRIL 2006 !!

/Jerry