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David Torn Solo at Portland PDX Jazz Festival at Holocene
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on May 1, 2015
Where
Holocene
Portland PDX Jazz Festival
1001 SE Morrison
Portland, OR
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When
Sat, May 16, 2015
7:00 pm
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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, its channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North Africa...