![]() In the end, it depends on the listener.įor me, the mood is the same as on other records. It's nice, warm music, and for me dark music is cold. What's dark music? It could mean goth music for some people, for others it's black metal, and some think an album is dark because the artwork is dark or the musicians have black fingernails. That's maybe right, but is it dark? I don't know. We never think of ourselves as making dark music, it's beautiful music, and you can listen to it at night. Do you think of yourselves as making nocturnal or dark music? One word often associated with Bohren & Der Club of Gore is "dark", and this album has titles like 'Ganz Leise Kommt Die Nacht' ('Quiet Night Is Coming') and 'Fahr Zur Hölle' ('Road To Hell'). We never would describe the album in that way, it would be silly. We didn't say that this record is as good as Black Earth, it's something that record companies write to sell more records, I think. ![]() Musicians always say "our last record is the best", and for me it's the same. Would you agree? Do you have favourites among your albums? Piano Nights has been described as your best album since Black Earth, which many consider to be your masterpiece. That's the main reason why we used the piano, and on this album, we actually used an acoustic piano. We chose a piano because we always wanted to use a vibraphone, which we'd used before but you couldn't really distinguish the sound between the Fender Rhodes and the vibraphone. MG: The album is not really based around the piano sound, it's just in the title. The title suggests the piano sits at the heart of the album. It's like a kind of theme, and this was the same with Piano Nights. We think of a title and then come up with the music for that title. The title, Piano Nights, came first, as always with our records. We put a lot of patience and research into the record, looking at studio techniques and instruments to get the easy listening sound that this album has. Morten Gass: It was three or even four years in the making. The Quietus caught up with multi-instrumentalist and keyboardist Morten Gass to discuss the album, along the way learning that Bohren don't see themselves as making dark music, compare their sound to elevator ambience and - perhaps surprisingly - don't really consider their music in jazz terms.Ĭould you please provide me with a bit of background on the development of Piano Nights? The title suggests a focus on the piano over the other instruments, a subtle shift that makes it possibly their most evocative album in years. Each album builds patiently, with every track a slow-burning capsule of melancholic atmosphere, and latest salvo Piano Nights is no exception. ![]() Since then, they have released eight albums, usually separated by three-to-four year gaps, but each containing exquisitely snail's pace sonic constructions dominated by echoing piano, gently brushed drums, gently grinding bass throbs and mournful saxophone. In 1991, German hardcore band Bohren & Der Club Of Gore made the radical decision to shed the shackles of the style they'd been playing for four years in favour of slow-moving, jazz and ambient inflected instrumental music. ![]()
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