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David Torn: Prezens
by Budd Kopman
With Prezens, guitarist and electronics magician David Torn returns to ECM with his first album since Cloud About Mercury (ECM, 1987). In the intervening twenty-year absence, Torn has made a number of albums for other labels, and has also composed movie soundtracks. The music was created by a working band that spent years ...
David Torn: Prezens
by Nenad Georgievski
David Torn never ceases to amaze with the variety of stylistic veins of sound he mines for gold and gems. There are many guitarists out there but rarely has someone shown such a broad scope with their playing, wide taste in influences, musical diversity, and capability in painting challenging and solitary impressions with their guitar brushstrokes. ...
David Torn: Back From Mercury
by Jason Crane
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews David Torn, a man of many talents. He's a film composer whose music you've heard in Friday Night Lights, Believe In Me, and The Order. He's also contributed tones and textures to films like this year's Best Picture winner, The Departed, and the 2000 hit ...
David Torn: Prezens
by AAJ Italy Staff
David Torn torna a casa base dopo vent’anni e non si lascia scappare l’occasione per posare una nuova pietra miliare per la musica creativa strutturata sulle macerie del jazz e del rock. L’eccellente Cloud About Mercury era uscito nel 1986 per l’ECM e aveva marcato con forza quegli anni piuttosto avari di soddisfazioni per la musica ...
David Torn: Prezens
by Mark F. Turner
"Take a little trip, take a little trip. Take a little trip and see... --Excerpt from the 1970s popular hit, “Low Rider, by WAR from Why Can't We Be Friends (Rhino, 1975). The popular lyrics from the above song could describe guitarist David Torn's Prezens, his first band recording in twenty years for ...
David Torn, Experimental or Theoretical Guitarist?
by Chris Comer
Listen In April, 2007 David Torn released his first CD for ECM in twenty years, and talks about it on The Chris & Rob Show. Prezens features Torn on guitar, Craig Taborn on keyboards, Tim Berne on alto sax and Tom Rainey on drums, all notable jazz artists and already a working group of Berne's. Torn ...
David Torn: Prezens
by John Kelman
David Torn has always been an unrepentant anti-guitarist. As early as his '80s work with Everyman Band and the Jan Garbarek Group he's been less about the expected guitar roles of melody, rhythm and muscular soloing and more about texture and revolutionary processing. In recent years he's brought his distinctive soundscaping concept to recordings by saxophonist ...
