Composer Reacts to Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Patchouli Blue (REACTION & ANALYSIS)

[@WOMENOFTROY]

One of my all time favourite bands. So evocative and atmospheric.

[@DerekPower]

Sunset Mission is probably the easiest one to start with and then continue from there to Black Earth and onward.

[@drauth]

Another good choice for today! Bohren and der Club of Gore are very distinct, in that they have overt metal roots. Their early material from the 90s lacked the saxophone, an instrument they only picked up after their guitarist left between their 2nd and 3rd albums. They also feature on metal projects from time to time. The most recent I can remember being the album closer to Kardashev's album from last year. That connection might explain some of their affinity to dissonance, as well as why their fanbase skews metal.

[@ElizaSkold]

Such a great band. While not necessarily my favourite album by them, they're an incredibly consistent band so it's still very good. I saw them live a few years ago, in a very dimly lit room of course, and they definitely carried that atmosphere with them in a live setting too. Fun fact, they actually started out as a sludge metal/doom metal band under the name Bohren, but only did one demo before completely switching over to this dark jazz style and adding '& der Club of Gore' to the name.

[@FellowHuman137]

This is my hangover band. I love the geisterfaust album and wonder how they stay in time together when playing so slow and minimalistic. Also the lead singer of deftones rates the sunset mission as one of his top ten albums of all time.

[@MaaZeus]

This music paints a picture in my head of a Jazz club straight from some Film Noir thing. Very dark, filled with tobacco smoke. Nothing moves, except the cigar smoke, and everyone are just thoughtfully staring at their drinks or at their cigars. Hell this could be a perfect soundtrack for such a scene in some hypothetical point and click adventure game. 😎

[@CriticalReactions]

And now I'm thinking it would be perfect in some of the more serious scenes of Grim Fandango

[@descantinginsalubrious]

This is up my alley. I found a playlist on Spotify called Doom Jazz, Noir Jazz and it's full of diverse tracks (some by Bohren et al) but all with a dark vibe.

[@alexwitham1276]

I love Bohren, thanks for doing this video. I really appreciate the openness you present when looking at music from such a wide selection of genres. You've somehow managed to keep the same attitude about the music while doing videos for artists that are in such varying genres, while also finding space for artists on the less popular side (niche dedicated fans territory?). A lot of artists in this category are near and dear to my heart (Xiu Xiu, Bohren, Blood Brothers, and more) and it can be difficult to find this type of content for them, especially sense it naturally will generate less views than new releases or artists with more eyes on them. Just wanted to shout that out, cheers!

[@CriticalReactions]

Glad you enjoyed this. I do a lot of reactions to niche bands/genres and a lot of people stick around for the musical discovery side of things since I rarely get around to the super popular stuff. I did check out Xiu Xiu a couple of weeks ago and there's a chance I'll do so again in 2 more weeks when we explore the "Positive Confusion" theme, songs that you don't really understand what you heard but definitely want to hear more like it. :)

[@brainrotplague]

Oh wow, I'm pleasantly surpriced to see a reaction video on this band. One of my all time favorites

[@barleymepodcast2301]

It truly is a testament to the channel that most bands I love that no one has done reaction vids to, CR has. And he seems to understand what makes most groups that get recommended appealing, even if it’s not his jam.

[@Absolute.Virtue]

One of my favorite bands. I use it as background music a lot in my home.

[@erkkapehto9125]

Sunset Mission is an amazing album from them

[@Postmetal]

great band i really like the album midnight radio.

[@breidablikmusic2501]

A great song from an amazing band. The music is clearly inspired by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's soundtracks, especially Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me.

[@CriticalReactions]

That's it! Something felt familiar but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

[@n4rf645]

When I first listened to Bohren I never thought I'd be into them as much as I am nowadays. There's just something so effortlessly cool about them. Also their front man has a real dry sense of humour. 10/10 would go to a live show again.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

Love the atmosphere on this, and it would make for awesome background music for driving down empty roads at midnight with street lamps as the only light source; just super noir-ish. Reminds me a lot of David Lynch/Twin Peaks with that dark, mysterious, melancholy tonality. It's also right on that borderline for music that's also rewarding for active listening; I could see myself actively listening to this, but I still feel like I'd probably get more out of it if I was listening to it playing as I was watching a playthrough of some really atmospheric/moody video game or something.

[@CriticalReactions]

You're not the first to bring up Twin Peaks and I wish it had dawned of me when I was recording. This is definitely reminiscent of Angelo Badalamenti work on the Twin Peaks soundtrack

[@brotherofmelody]

I love pretty much everything they released since sunset Mission! Nothing calms my mind like bohren.

[@MrAcidKnight]

Love this band! Very film noir.

[@thegrimner]

Felt at times like it was going nowhere, but it kept ending up in different places. Pretty nice piece of music, if catered to a specific vibe. It also reminded me a bit of Painting on Glass by the Third and the Mortal, coincidentally a doom metal band that went jazz and finally electronica.

[@ckokomo808]

Nice recommendation! I hadn’t heard of this album and just listened. Interesting stuff. I really liked it overall!

[@Shadvox]

Got all their albums on CD, great band. First singer Kari also is on STORM - NORDAVIND album:)

[@FellowHuman137]

If you's like a genuinely interesting musical experience, listen to the entire geisterfaust album in one sitting. It teaches the listener musical entrainment and the release on klienerfinger the final track is beautiful.

[@liliIiliIilil]

There are two other similar bands called The Killimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Ambient doom-jazz. Good stuff.

[@CriticalReactions]

I've heard the Killimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble before but not The Mount Doom Doomjazz Corporation. Also, geez those names lol. All of these doom/dark jazz bands have wild names.

[@liliIiliIilil]

@@CriticalReactions lol yeah, KDE and MJDC are sister-bands -- they have mostly the same members and one is a live band and one is a studio band.

[@pooty195]

These guys are great to drift off to sleep with

[@nicknickson3650]

Love this band. Can I recommend Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? Lots of good stuff to choose from, from them.

[@shryggur]

I'd love to see a breakdown of Higgs Boson Blues. Or Babe, I'm on Fire - just to torture Bryan a bit C:

[@CriticalReactions]

I haven't done a full analysis of them but I did check out the track Breathless during a livestream kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmW9h4qAYsp0gJI That stream was blocked on KZbin so you can find a link in that video's description to watch it.

[@nicknickson3650]

@@CriticalReactions Awesome, thank you. I hope you check them out. Nick Cave has made some great music throughout his career but the albums Skeleton Tree, Ghosteen, and Carnage are some of the best music I've ever heard. Here's an example kzbin.info/www/bejne/inu9dax_r5Jjos0

[@progperljungman8218]

You were really well indulged to this after the Chat Pile reaction...

[@brainrotplague]

Should perhaps have done a song of "sunset mission" or "black earth" as an introduction to the band, though. It's worth checking out off stream or whatever

[@Luemm3l]

these guys were literally the latest concert of me before the Rona in late 2019... they have very dry humor and very little stage banter live but it fits... "this is our song "totally false..." that we, of course, play "totally right"! (no kidding, they have literally a song from this very same album named "totally wrong" ... in german though.

[@FellowHuman137]

Oh btw this is one of their more upbeat tracks.

[@CriticalReactions]

Wooooow. Not a road I'll be traveling any time soon then 😅

[@ckokomo808]

Doom jazz = djazz 😂 I’ve been curious why this band is metal adjacent? I enjoy them. Maybe it’s the dark atmosphere? Maybe it’s creating something that’s against the norm? Idk, but I really enjoy these guys. Another I enjoyed from last year in this vein is a member who started their own group called the Lovecraft Sextet. Their album Miserere was one of my tops from last year. Similar doom jazz with organ, synth and black metal growls. I’m all about eating pure spice! Haha. Great analogy in my head and liked the exploration of tension/release. It’s something I’ve been thinking about with bands that play almost entirely or very heavily with dissonance- ingurgitating oblivion, as nauseum, ulcerate, baring teeth, imperial triumphant, pyrrhic, etc. To me it’s almost easier to listen to these bands because dissonance becomes the new normal. It’s kinda that thing if everyone had superpowers, then nobody has superpowers. But when bands flip between dissonance and “normal” (idk the term for this) melody/scales it allows for contrast. My analogy is saying melody is like blue, red, purple (complimentary colors). They “go together”. And dissonance is like yellow, green, purple (all opposites). When looking at these colors for a long enough time- like my grade school colors or watching the joker, they start to appear normal. That’s how I feel now with some of these dissonance bands.

[@CriticalReactions]

It's interesting that you mention pure dissonance music creating a new normal for the listener. In one of today's videos this happens for me, where a lot of noisy dissonance just became the background sound of the track. And the opposite of dissonance is consonance.

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

their very first album "Gore Motel" had some metal moments, the band back then even listed Autopsy as an influence

[@makjak111]

Sounds like white ward without the black metal

[@FellowHuman137]

I must investigate.

[@da.c]

When I listen to White Ward, I think the opposite. They sound like Bohren but mixed with Black Metal.

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

@@da.c same

[@luisandresvaldebenito319]

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