LP - Black Vinyl.
Italian avant-garde collective TRAUM feature members of ZU, Fuzz Orchestra, Lento and Zeus! They masterfully blend psychedelia, krautrock and dark ambient sprinkled with sax and smooth layers of synth that feels like an invitation to a pre-apocalypse seance of meditation resulting in the sharing of the same horizon of interpretation of existence and music by four musicians. TRAUM creates and shapes its music starting from the dream dimension. Whether it is an illusory, lucid, interdimensional or induced dream, the music bears witness to it and describes its various aspects, keeping the rudder to starboard like a new Ulysses returning home.
Their first album is the result of almost a month of living together in an old farmhouse playing, improvising and sharing their lives and their musical and cultural passions. Through a state of presence and mutual listening, the eight tracks that made up this multifaceted album were born: the music takes different shapes, conducting the listener on a journey within himself. The record is the spontaneous fruit of an urge to communicate and musically explore today's reality, both internally and externally.
"With that kind of pedigree, it's worth taking serious note as the sonics they create under this new moniker are awash with ethereal psych, kraut, space rock, ambient, even dub and jazz." - The Sleeping Shaman
TRAUM is
Luca Ciffo - Guitar, Bass
Lorenzo Stecconi - Guitar
Luca T. Mai - Synths/Sax
Paolo Mongardi - Drums
FFO: Follakzoid, Camera, MELTS, Les Big Byrd, Liverpool Pzyk Fest (RIP).
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Kali Yuga
2. Vimana
3. Katabasis
4. Inner Space
5. Antartic Down
Side B
1. Infraterrestrial Dub
2. Erwachen
3. Eterno Ritorno credits