Bohren & der Club of Gore

Dark jazz, doom jazz, and ambient jazz noir are just three of the (sub)genre terms regularly used to describe the music of Germany's Bohren & Der Club of Gore. After emerging from hardcore punk and metal bands during the late 1980s, these musicians sought and discovered a new direction that reveled in sheer unhurried lethargy, a music persistently sedate, modally performed, and harmonically minimal. Their primary influences included film noir soundtracks, the bleak sonic landscapes of Lustmord, the scores of Angelo Badalamenti, the languid sax and soul ballads of Ben Webster, ...