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Sunset Mission

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This album is amazing. The first track "Prowler" sets me in the perfect mood for reading or watching the rain come down every time I put it on.
Light some candles or incense, turn on a lamp and pour a glass of bourbon. This "dark-jazz/noir-jazz" really gives you that 1930-40s late night inner city feel. Not for fans of hard-bop or west coast jazz who are looking for something darker, but for fans of ambient music looking for something with a lot of mood and personality.

Morten Gass-piano, Christoph Closer-tenorsaxophon,Thorten Benning -schlagzeug and Robin Rodenberg-bass are German Bohren & der Club of Gore one of the MUST beautiful experience in Music and Fellings.When you try this i am sure you know what i really mean. Dark and Fantastic.

3 1/2 stars

From the first cymbal splash to the last echo of falling raindrops, Bohren will have your heart inside of a David Lynch late night bar, smoking heavily as you watch the foreign temptress on stage try to seduce you..The atmospherics are heavy and bleak on this bands sound, however this is contradicted by the minimalistic, lush playing of the trio, offering a musical paradox in a way, the beauty of darkness...The sound does become a little repetivive and gimmicky when the formula is blatantly repeated a few times throughout, but for the most part you will be too immersed in the noir feel of it all to even notice..Perfect for stormy nights of quiet desperation..

Imagine the band Morphine doing background music for a David Lynch movie, and you will have Bohren and der Club of Gore. Not a gothic, doom and gloom band at all, but cool, smoky, noir music that makes you want to take a set, narrow your eyes, and sink into sensual oblivion. I was delighted to find this band, and I now consider myself a big fan. They create a mood I'm always in the mood for.

this terrific ensemble of music has come about to creating a true and pure form of "genius". first hearing of it in Europe i had to investigate. the music is beautiful. dark moody/jazzy notes fill you through a maze of nothing else but pure ecstasy. it's acidic ideas filtrate through each and every cell of your body. this is music that can provide you with some ideas/thinking time and of course relaxation.

*SlowingDownTheDayByPullingTheMusicalHandbrake*

Bohren's music is like neon light:
It is extremely cold and somewhat 'artificial' (they use synthi-pads in the background) - But also warm in some really wicked way - this might be due to the saxophone-play of this guy named 'Christoph Clöser'...

...just like a dark urban sunrise...

In terms of taste, the diametrical opposition of doom metal and jazz is exaggerated, to say the least. Give me a Grief album or a Charles Mingus album, and I'm a happy camper either way. So why was this album a disappointment to me? Partly (but not entirely) because it doesn't really have anything to do with either of those. Doom metal is only invoked because it's a trendy genre to mention and the tempos here are pretty slow, and this isn't really jazz because jazz emphasizes improvisation; this is heavily composed, maudlin stuff, more like faux soundtrack music.

So try to see this for what it is. As noir atmospheric/ambient material, it's pretty average. The gentle interplay of fender rhodes and sax over washing synth is striking in its "prettiness" in the same way elevator music can be pretty, but likewise, it doesn't take risks, and it's compositionally static. Accidentally start a song somewhere in the middle and I bet you might not know the difference.

It's pretty telling that every description you'll read of this band's music is full of cliche. Back alleys and scotch. A David Lynch nightclub. "Sexy." Etc. etc, snooore. Where's the imagination?