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Ever-intrepid guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape artist David Torn will embark on his first solo tour of the US since the mid-nineties (see itinerary below). The 22-city tour is in support of \u201conly sky\u201d – an album that explores the far sonic edges of what one man and a guitar can create, a solo recording of almost orchestral atmosphere.
\u201conly sky\u201d is Torn\u2019s first ECM release since 2007\u2019s acclaimed \u201cprezens\u201d, a full-band project, with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey, that Jazzwise described as \u201ca vibrating collage full of shimmering sonic shapes, a dark, urban electronic soundscape \u2013 a potent mix of jazz, free-form rock and technology that is both demanding and rewarding.\u201d Many of those same descriptors apply to \u201conly sky\u201d, with its hovering ambient shadows and vaulting flashes of light, its 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 sorted and mixed in Torn\u2019s own mad-scientist lair), \u201conly sky\u201d is an album to get lost in, over and again.<\/p>\n
Says David, \u201cFor the ‘only’ sky tour, I’ll be performing as I did for the recording: playing the electric guitar, bending its effect to how I might hear it fit these early days of the 21st Century; maybe I’ll even convince it to kick some ass, too! Stranger things have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Across his career, Torn has worked with jazz improvisers (Jan Garbarek, Tim Berne, Don Cherry), film composers (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carter Burwell) and art-pop singers (David Bowie, David Sylvian). He has also composed music for several films including \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d, \u201cLars and the Real Girl\u201d, \u201cEverything Must Go\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTorn has a knack for creating music that is at once ethereal and gestural\u2026Torn\u2019s integration of ephemeral realism and celestial surrealism is palpable, providing the true ebb and flow of only sky\u2019s dramatic arc.\u201d – Wilbur MacKenzie \u2013 The New York City Jazz Record<\/p>\n
\u201cTo call him a hero of the electric avant-garde would be accurate but incomplete.\u201d – Nate Chinen, The New York Times<\/p>\n
\u201cGo ahead and call the wily guitarist a master of chopped ‘n’ screwed jazz schema. Onstage the mad scientist and his new pals find a way to balance the aggression with the reflection. Wildly tantalizing textures.\u201d – Village Voice New York<\/p>\n
David Torn tour dates:
May 08 – New York, NY at Subculture
May 10 – Hamden, CT at The Ballroom at The Outer Space
May 11 – Marlboro, NY at The Falcon
May 12 – Dunellen, NJ at NJ Proghouse @ Roxy & Dukes
May 13 – Cambridge, MA at Regattabar
May 14 – Philadelphia, PA at Philadelphia Art Alliance
May 16 – Portland, OR at Holocene
May 17-18 – Seattle, WA at Storyville (Pike Place)
May 19 – San Francisco, CA at Slim\u2019s
May 20 – Sacramento, CA at Gold Lion Arts
May 21 – Los Angeles, CA at Blue Whale
May 22 – Denver, CO at Walnut Room
May 26 – Minneapolis, MN at Cedar Cultural Center
May 27 – Milwaukee, WI at The Jazz Estate
May 29 – Chicago, IL at Constellation
May 30 – Cincinnati, OH at The Monastery
May 31 – Pittsburgh, PA at Club Caf\u00e9
June 1 – Washington DC at Union Arts
June 3 – Baltimore, MD at The Windup Space
June 4 – Carrboro, NC at Cat\u2019s Cradle
June 6 – Asheville, NC at Streamside Concerts
June 7 – Atlanta, GA at Red Light Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n
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