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David Torn

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David Torn is a texturalist/guitarist (winner of Guitar Player Magazine's Readers' Poll Award, Experimental category: 1994 & 1997), composer, multi-instrumentalist (live looping, oud, saz, kikuyae, kotar, MacOS, samplers, programming, mandolin, optigan, etc.), producer, writer, occasional singer & sporadically vociferous consultant to technological niches within the musical instrument manufacturing community, among other things..... Torn’s work on music for film & tv (& soundtrack releases): Torn's first major soundtrack as sole composer has just been released: The Order, directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon, will be in cinemas on September 5th 2003

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Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same

Label: Kou Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ice-Shock Cold Of Illusion; Shapes Of Newborn Warming Stars; The Red Door #1; Its Own Dimension; Within Dimension Behind Dimension; Inconclusive; The Road (Past The Beehive) To The River; When The Birds Flock 'Round My Head; Gold And Its Oxide; Bones Of Home, Fly East...; The (Once Green) Red Door #2

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forever sharp and vivid

Label: Lolo Records
Released: 1998

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Article: Album Review

David Torn: Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same

Read "Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same" reviewed by Maciej Stasiowski


Lacking recognizable features, yet constituting a genre of their own, John Constable's 1821-1822 cloud studies come up as an evocative metaphor for David Torn's Only Sky (ECM Records, 2015). What Constable referred to as “skying," almost two centuries later, made a comeback as an arrangement of distortions, loops, and cascaded signal processing, which Torn jokingly nicknamed ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Colangelo, Nachoff, Politzer, Makos, And More

Read "New Music From Colangelo, Nachoff, Politzer, Makos, And More" reviewed by Bob Osborne


In this edition we have a selection of recent jazz and improvised music releases. The playlist moves through chamber-oriented writing, rhythm-centred ensemble pieces, contemporary treatments of standards, guitar-driven abstraction, brass-focused small group work, groove-based compositions, textural duos, high-energy electric material, bass-led writing, reflective ballad forms and some fascinating reissue material. Playlist Federica Colangelo Acquaphonica ...

Album

¿QUÉ?

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bee Still; Next is a Good Place to Be; That Not So Clear Day in September; Oil Can Sweets; Raindrops and Waterspouts; A Quiet Cafe Until It's Not; Oil Can Beets; Barker de la Carnivale; Oil Can Leeks; Wizard of Wut; Pitter Patter All That Matters

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Article: Album Review

Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne

Read "Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Il rapporto di Gregg Belisle-Chi con la musica di Tim Berne è stretto. Ne avevamo conosciuto gli ampi legami nel primo volume dedicato alle composizioni del sassofonista, Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne, uscito nel 2021. Poi nella pubblicazione in duo di Mars e Zone One dell'anno successivo, e in quella di Yikes Too, edito ...

Article: Album Review

Ches Smith: Clone Row

Read "Clone Row" reviewed by Vic Albani


Giù il cappello ancora una volta. Ches Smith è davvero un meraviglioso esempio di intelligenza e--dopo il bellissimo capolavoro dedicato al Voodoo (Path of Seven Colors) pubblicato con Pyroclastic nel 2021, ma anche Laugh Ash del 2024--tira fuori dal cappello un'altra meraviglia affrontando un'autentica destrutturazione di un super quartetto con tanto di due chitarre (Mary Halvorson, ...

Album

Candid

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Piper; Scratch; Craw; Floored.


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