Spencer Bohren

Bohren & der Club of Gore: Piano Nights

Read "Piano Nights" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 20, 2014

Of the many hard-to-define sub-genres of jazz, “dark jazz" may be the most challenging to classify. Exemplifying the category is Bohren & der Club of Gore's Piano Nights . The German quartet, whose members have a variety of doom metal origins, has morphed their earlier inclinations into a hybrid that has little to suggest the player's roots. Unequal parts of ambient, experimental and modern jazz, it represents the most radical career transition since Charles Lloyd joined the Beach Boys.

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Spencer Bohren - Blackwater Music (2011)

Source: Something Else!
August 25, 2011

Spencer Bohren, a Wyoming native now based in New Orleans, has travelled all over, yet still possesses a strong sense of place. He mounted an almost never-ending tour throughout the 1980s, but did so in an Airstream trailer with his wife and kids. In keeping, the spare and simply put Blackwater Music is a family recording in the most complete sense of the word—with Andre Bohren sitting in on drums and piano, a song co-written by Marilyn Bohren and a ...
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