Bohren & der Club of Gore are a
noir jazz band founded in 1992 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany by Thorsten Benning (drums), Morten Gass (keys), Reiner Henseleit (guitar), and Robin Rodenberg (upright / double bass). They play a crossover of
jazz and
ambient, which they self described as an "unholy ambient mixture of
slow jazz ballads,
Black Sabbath doom and down tuned
Autopsy sounds". Over the years they have continously reduced and compressed their music to extremes. Originally, the members of Bohren, who were school friends, started out playing in various
hardcore ba…
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