Native English speakers might look at the moniker of Italian cosmic rockers Traum and associate it with the word ‘trauma,’ but ‘traum’ is German for ‘dream’ — ‘weltraum’ is ‘space’; think Weltraumstaunen or other jammers in that sphere — and the sound is correspondingly more outreach than inner-exploration, though admittedly that’s a question of how it’s interpreted. Nonetheless, Traum, which as the PR wire emphasizes boasts members in its ranks of Zu, Lento, Fuzz Orchestra, and a whole bunch of others in Subsound Records head Lorenzo Stecconi alone, never mind what bands anyone else has been in aside from those listed here.

The sound is improv or at least experimental in its root, but the dogwhistle to krautrock and classic prog heads is in the name itself, and considering the swath of styles these guys have covered in other bands, that they’d come together with a distinct purpose in mind doesn’t seem like an over-the-top expectation. “Inner Space” is down there where the streaming stuff goes (should I move that up? new year new theme? what are you thinking here?), and the blue text follows here with more info from the PR wire:

Italian avant-garde collective TRAUM (w/ members of ZU, Fuzz Orchestra) release debut single off self-titled album, out March 1st on Subsound Records

Italian avant-garde collective TRAUM (with members of Zu, Fuzz Orchestra, Lento, Zeus!) present their kaleidoscopic psych-laden first single “Inner Space”, taken from their self-titled debut album to be released on March 1st via Subsound Records.

Italian avant-garde collective TRAUM feature members of ZU, Fuzz Orchestra, Lento and Zeus! They masterfully blend psychedelia, krautrock and dark ambient sprinkled with sax and smooth layers of synth that feels like an invitation to a pre-apocalypse seance of meditation resulting in the sharing of the same horizon of interpretation of existence and music by four musicians.

Debut album “Traum”
Out March 1st on Subsound Records
Preorder on Bandcamp: https://traumofficial.bandcamp.com/album/traum
and Subsound Records: https://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=traum

TRAUM creates and shapes its music starting from the dream dimension. Whether it is an illusory, lucid, interdimensional or induced dream, the music bears witness to it and describes its various aspects, keeping the rudder to starboard like a new Ulysses returning home.

Their first album is the result of almost a month of living together in an old farmhouse playing, improvising and sharing their lives and their musical and cultural passions. Through a state of presence and mutual listening, the eight tracks that made up this multifaceted album were born: the music takes different shapes, conducting the listener on a journey within himself. The record is the spontaneous fruit of an urge to communicate and musically explore today’s reality, both internally and externally.

1. Kali Yuga
2. Vimana
3. Katabasis
4. Inner Space
5. Antartic Down
6. Infraterrestrial Dub
7. Erwachen
8. Eterno Ritorno

TRAUM is
Luca Ciffo – Guitar, Bass
Lorenzo Stecconi – Guitar
Luca T. Mai – Synths/Sax
Paolo Mongardi – Drums

https://www.facebook.com/traumspace
https://instagram.com/traum_musik/
https://traumofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/traum_musik

https://www.facebook.com/subsoundrecords/
https://www.instagram.com/subsound_records/
http://subsoundrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://www.subsoundrecords.it/

Traum, “Inner Space”

Tags: Italy, self-titled, Subsound Records, Traum, Traum Self-titled

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