BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE — Patchouli Blue

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: PIAS Germany PIASD5045CD
Release Year: 2020
Note: the new studio album five years after "Piano Nights", now reduced to a trio (without drummer),... still the darkest / slowest nightshade-jazz you can imagine, so lonely, warm and harmonic! - "If youre coming to it cold then what Patchouli Blue most sounds like is Angelo Badalamentis dark jazz mood music for Twin Peaks. Only slowed down and left to wander the wood.." [Echoes & Dust]
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Nach ihrem letzten Studioalbum "Piano Nights", mittlerweile schon ber fnf Jahren alt, verffentlichen Bohren & Der Club Of Gore am 10.01.2020 ihr neues Album "Patchouli Blue" auf [PIAS] Recordings Germany.

1988 in Mlheim a.d. Ruhr gegrndet, und seit 2016 - nach dem Ausstieg von Schlagzeuger Thorsten Benning - auf eine Trio-Besetzung optimiert, haben Bohren & Der Club Of Gore mittlerweile 7 Studioalben, 1 Compilation und eine 1 EP verffentlicht. Dazu zahlreiche Konzerte auf der ganzen Welt gespielt und sich mit prziser Entschleunigung, kombiniert mit minimalen Lumeneinheiten, eine groe und treue Fangemeinde erspielt. Dabei blieben sie ihrem Sound stets treu. Mit Bass, Saxophon, Piano, Fender Rhodes, Vibrafon und Besenschlagzeug als Basis erschaffen sie seit 20 Jahren ein einzigartiges Werk - immer instrumental, immer langsam, immer ereignisarm. Gesang gibt es nicht.

Nun also "Patchouli Blue". Instrumental, langsam, ereignisarm. Gemischt wurde das Album wieder von Andi Reisner.
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"The fog is turning to rain as I push through the doors into the old Club of Gore. The place has been closed up for a few years but nothing much has changed, its still comfortably frayed around the edges. Organ drone swells up from the background, cuts out. They kept the worn fittings and the gloom, smells like death rock. After a couple of minutes the saxophone sighs softly, like a friendly hand on your shoulder. Patchouli Blue just fell into my lap, new information at short notice. The hardcore had the jump on me all along. By the time this review makes it out theyll be soaked in it, hip to details I havent had time for yet.

Bohren & der Club of Gore play a superbly unhurried type of slow core doom jazz. The sort of stuff to make long shot film noir images spool across the minds eye and your internal monologue turn all hard-boiled detective without warning. New faces at their notional dive bar turn on their heel pretty sharp or settle right on in because it feels like home. Companionship in solitude, nobody pulling on yer sleeve and making noisy chit chat, its all existential brooding on lifes mystery in here. If youre coming to it cold then what Patchouli Blue most sounds like is Angelo Badalamentis dark jazz mood music for Twin Peaks. Only slowed down and left to wander the woods. Its whats playing on the jukebox in Audrey Hornes coma." [Echoes & Dust]