DAVID TORN & PREZENS

Composer/guitarist/producer David Torn, a.k.a. Splattercell, has played with David Bowie, Jeff Beck, David Sylvian, Laurie Anderson, Sting, Madonna, Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Dave Douglas, Manu Katché… His expressive guitar parts can be heard on several soundtracks (including The Big Lebowski, The Departed). Prezens is Torn’s new group with downtown-New Yorkers Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey. The eponymous CD is his first one for ECM in twenty years. ‘Torn is an inventive guitarist and producer whose new album, Prezens suggests a texturally slippery approach to group improvisation.’ (The New York Times).