Bohren & Der Club of Gore

"Yes, jazz. In fact, this just might be a variation of jazz you might never have heard before. Remember Angelo Badalamenti's music for David Lynch's great TV series Twin Peaks? That slow, slinky, playful, minimalist blend of '50s rock 'n' roll and lounge piano, how hearing a single movement in the soundtrack instantly hit you with the mental image of Audrey Horne coquettishly walking across a room? Well, the music on Black Earth is just as simple, but instead, this music sounds more like a corpse clawing its way out of a grave, lumbering in the moonlit night, with creaky joints and a half-decayed face, in search of human flesh to feast on. Sure, there are times when you are hit with a mental image of a cherry-lipped femme fatale, but it's always only for a brief spell, as the music pulls you deeper and deeper into a dank pit of nasty, monstrous, ambient jazz."

Adrien Begrand, PopMatters

Bohren & der Club of Gore is a band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning, Morten Gass, Robin Rodenberg and Reiner Henseleit. Originally, members of Bohren started out playing in various hardcore bands such as 7 Inch Boots and Chronical Diarrhoea. In 1992 they produced a crossover of jazz, hardcore, and ambient, which they self described as an "unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds". Henseleit left the band in 1996 and was replaced by Christoph Clöser in 1997, replacing the guitar with a saxophone at the same time.

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