Troum 'EmphasYs' CD

July 2026

An excellent CD from Troum - recommended! Each of the 7 tracks on this album is characterised through the focus on / use of one instrument - electric guitar, cello, accordion, didgeridoo, acoustic guitar, zither & saxophone.

From the label : SEVEN tracks based on SEVEN different instruments, moving through various stages, moods and realities.. "...these instruments become sources of texture, resonance, and colour - They are not simply played, they are expanded, dissolved, and transmuted...EmphasYs unfolds like a sequence of elemental states. The music appears as colourful fluids, shining gases, iridescent ether. Sound behaves like matter in transformation, shifting density, refracting light, dissolving form"

Troum is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members  were active before in the influential ambient industrial group Maeror Tri which existed from 1988 to 1996. Troum is the old German word for "dream". The dream seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious symbolises the aim of Troum to lead the listener into a hypnotising dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere.