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an Evening with David Torn at The Cedar
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on May 1, 2015
When
Tue, May 26, 2015
7:30 pm
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Musicians
David Torn
guitar, electricAbout
David Torn – ever-intrepid guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape artist – makes his Cedar debut as he tours behind his new album 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, its channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North Africa.