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David Torn Solo at SubCulture: Arts Underground
Courtesy of SubCulture | Posted on April 29, 2015
Where
SubCulture: Arts Underground
45 Bleecker St
New York, NY
Map
(212) 533-5470
When
Fri, May 8, 2015
7:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
David Torn
guitar, electricAbout
David Torn – ever-intrepid guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape artist – returns with only sky, an album that explores the far sonic edges of what one man and a guitar can create, a solo recording of almost orchestral atmosphere. It is Torn’s first ECM release since 2007’s acclaimed Prezens, a full-band project, with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey, that Jazzwise described as “a vibrating collage full of shimmering sonic shapes, a dark, urban electronic soundscape – a potent mix of jazz, free-form rock and technology that is both demanding and rewarding.” Many of those same descriptors apply to only sky, with its hovering ambient shadows and vaulting flashes of light, it’s channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North Africa. Recorded in the acoustically apt hall of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in upstate New York (and then added to and manipulated in Torn’s own mad-scientist lair), only sky is an album to get lost in, over and again....