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Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Geisterfaust

Label:
Catalog#:
WON 17 CD
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Germany
Released:
02 May 2005
Genre:
Electronic, Jazz
Style:
Downtempo, Experimental

Tracklist

1   Zeigefinger 20:28 X
    Choir - Heide Kröger , Helena Ax , Hilde Weyler , Karin Paula Müller , Karin Stein , Maria Humger-Klein , Renate Golzarandi , Traudl Jarchow , Vera Voigt
  Trombone [Bass Trombone] - Peter Hoffmann (2)
  Tuba - Daiki Takahashi , Joseph Barth
2   Daumen 8:06 X
3   Ringfinger 10:22 X
4   Mittelfinger 12:10 X
    Trombone [Bass Trombone] - Peter Hoffmann (2)
  Tuba - Daiki Takahashi , Joseph Barth
5   Kleiner Finger 7:46 X

Credits

Bass [Contrabass, Fretless Bass] - Robin Rodenberg
Bass, Other [Volumen Pedal] - Morten Gass
Drums, Percussion - Thorsten Benning
Guitar [Fender Rhodes], Vibraphone, Saxophone - Christoph Clöser
Mixed By - Bernd Jestram
Mixed By, Producer, Recorded By - Bohren*
Recorded By [Choir] - Wolfram Burgdorf

Notes

Recorded and produced at Dark Victory Studio, Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Choir recorded at Solaris Sound Studio, Cologne.
Mixed at Bleibeil Studio, Berlin.
Mastered by Calyx Mastering Service, Berlin.

Many thanks to Nicole Schmeier, Annette Focks, Mark Sikora, Wonder, Headquarter and Ipecac. Special thanks to Gisela & Willi Gass for their patience of a saint.

(The release notes were translated to english.)

Comes as 6-panel digipak.

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Rated 3/5
Review by enfantterrible May 13, 2008
The inmediate follow up to "Black Earth" comes in separate ways.
Although still condensing dense fumes of smoke landscapes a la Dashiel Hammett with a Badalamenti influenced Jazz Noir is not as rhytmically influenced as his predecessor and less dark too.
Here comes a jazz with post rock usage (the sound and cadence reminds me of Bark Psychosis) with the metronome counting at the most slow speed possible but not so by stepping into "funeral" or "doom" influenced music as they did previously. This is probably not that good since the band may be good and knows how to play and when to hit with the compositions, but there is nothing really innovative or original here anymore.
Previous album was a dismembering from the cadence of Doom metal and a heavy use of a variant of jazz with atmospheric elemments that could be easily traced to Badalamenti in his more solid works,the atmospheric elemments are still preserved here but the morbid side was softened a lot (even the titles follow this line). Never forget the phormula that made you famous and don't try to be what you are not.
This is an average jazz-post rock influenced band. Which simply makes it severely overrated. Fumes out.
Rated 5/5
Review by sattwa23 Feb 03, 2008
So, just another great "horror-jazz" album from "Bohren & Der Club Of Gore". IMHO, nearly as great as their "Black Earth". May be, a 'lill bit less dark and heavy... Not so furious. But, is this minus? :) The music in some pieces strongly reminds of some tracks from "Black Earth", but it is heard not as self-repeating, but as additions or developing of certain moods and rhythms. Very athmospheric and rich and jazzy. Several tracks could be great soundtrack to a romantic noire suspense movie, as far as I am concerned :) No doubts, reco!