Prezens is an album by guitarist David Torn

David Torn

David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...

 recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Prezens is one of those recordings where free improvisation and composition find an uneasy but cooperative working relationship making for one compelling listen after another".

Track listing

All compositions by David Torn except as indicated

1. "AK" (Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Craig Taborn, David Torn) - 9:19
2. "Rest & Unrest" - 3:45
3. "Structural Functions of Prezens" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) - 10:58
4. "Bulbs" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) - 6:21
5. "Them Buried Standing" - 2:43
6. "Sink" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) - 7:16
7. "Neck-Deep in the Harrow..." (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) - 12:33
8. "Ever More Other" - 4:13
9. "Ring for Endless Travel" - 2:24
10. "Miss Place, The Mist..." (Matt Chamberlain, Torn) - 5:46
11. "Transmit Regardless" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) - 7:20

Recorded at Clubhouse Studios in Rhinebeck, New York in March 2005

Personnel

• David Torn
  David Torn
  David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, live-sampling and manipulation
• Tim Berne
  Tim Berne
  Tim Berne is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s...
  
   - alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Craig Taborn
  Craig Taborn
  Craig Taborn is an American keyboardist and composer. Playing piano, organ, and Moog synthesizer, Taborn has worked mostly in jazz, although he also does dark ambient and techno music....
  
   - Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
  , bent circuits
• Matt Chamberlain
  Matt Chamberlain
  Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
   (track 10), Tom Rainey
  Tom Rainey
  Thomas "Tom" Rainey is an American drummer.After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with American jazz saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, and also with Nels Cline, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Tom Varner, Drew Gress, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias, and Simon...
  
   (tracks 1-9 & 11) - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....