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David Torn's Prezens at Joe's Pub, NYC
by Budd Kopman
David Torn and Prezens at Joe's Pub, NYCJoe's PubNew York City, NYMarch 13, 2008 The quartet that took the stage is a live version of the group that is on prezens (ECM, 2007), which is the result of guitarist/electronics magician David Torn's post-processing of many hours of improvising by him, ...
Firehouse 12 to Present David Torn's Prezens This Friday 3/14
On Friday, March 14th, Firehouse 12 will kick off its 13-week Spring Jazz Series with a two-set performance by experimental guitarist David Torn's all-star quartet, Prezens. The group unites Torn with the members of acclaimed saxophonist Tim Berne's electro-acoustic trio, Hard Cell, featuring keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Tom Reney. Prezens is touring the U.S. in ...
Prezens
By David Torn
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ak; Rest & Unrest; Structural Functions of Prezens; Bulbs; Them Buried Standing; Sink;
Neck-
deep in the Harrow...; Ever More Other; Ring for Endless Travel; Miss Place, the Mist...;
Transmit Regardless.
David Torn: A Lifetime of Improvisation in Non-Improvisational Settings
by Paul Olson
David Torn has done work in so many capacities in such a variety of musical projects that it's somewhat daunting to try to state just what exactly he is. Certainly Torn's a guitarist of humbling technique--but he's always been more interested in texture and sound than the kind of electric shredding beloved in guitar-hero-worshiping ...
Manu Katche: Playground
by John Kelman
It may not appear until the fourth track in, but the propulsive “So Groovy" could easily have been the title for the follow-up to Manu Katché's award-winning ECM debut, 2005's Neighbourhood. Still, Playground is no less fitting since it's an album that demonstrates--with three-fifths of Neighbourhood's members reconvened, and two younger but emergent players replacing the ...
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 ...
