Prowler - Bohren & der Club of Gore

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Late night drizzling rain in New York City - can anything be more cinematic? Well yeah, a soundtrack to fit the mood. 

Want to feel like you’re throw onto the set of Scorsese's Taxi Driver, check out Bohren & der Club of Gore. 

This atmospheric four piece jazz group from Germany is the perfect soundtrack to falling asleep. Don't hold me responsible for any murder mystery, film noir, deceive dreams that their music formulates. 

I'll leave it to the last.fm tags to describe this group most uniquely: Bohren & der Club of Gore is classified as dark ambient, dark jazz, funeral jazz, or doom jazz. I'd call it night music.

 I never thought I'd find myself enjoying a saxophone so intensely, but that surely seems to be the driving instrument for me. Originally the band featured a guitar instead of a saxophone, being that the group derived from a group of high school friends' original hardcore band. The group set out to make a more unique style of music. They chose the name Bohren which translates to drilling from German. They desribe themselves as an “unholy ambient mixture of slow jazz ballads, Black Sabbath doom and down tuned Autopsy sounds." 

Case and point: this music is eerie, but strangely comforting if you are nice and cozy in you’re bed listening to the rain through your window. On the other hand, I don’t know how comforting this music would be while walking down a dark deserted alleyway in the bowery after some rainfall. 

If you can't get to sleep, don't reach for the nyquil. Load up some Bohren and let the slow atmospheric jazz play you off. 

Since the band has been around since 1992, figuring out where to start in their discography is pretty tricky. I would suggest their 2000-release Sunset Mission.