RE: Torn in London

[Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org>]

This is from John Zorn listserve, may be of interest for you (lucky) 
Brits who get to see these show. Hey, I guess it's your reward for 
putting up with our alleged president at the moment...

When I first heard about these shows, I was assuming that Torn was 
replacing marc Ducret, but no, it looks like you get both. Ducret is 
a really wonderful player, I'd urge anyone not to miss these shows.
>
>
>Tim Berne and Science Friction together with the Arte Saxophone Quartett 
>and
>David Torn played Exeter UK last night.
>
>It was a great evening. It started with Berne, Ducret (on acoustic guitar)
>and the quartet playing Quicksand then they were joined by Craig Taborn, 
>Tom
>Rainey and David Torn for a special commission from the BBC called 
>Untitled
>(Still) "How pretentious, now that I've said it out loud!"
>
>The second half began with a saxophone quartet piece and ended with a long
>improv/medley of Science Friction with Torn.
>
>Torn played far more guitar than I expected and was less involved with
>shaping the whole band sound. He spent most of the time adding atmospheric
>guitar parts with occasional treatments of the quartet. He was quite 
>content
>to leave the actual guitar leads to Ducret who was ripping it up like a
>bastard child of David Fiuczynski and Derek Bailey.
>
>Anybody on the list who can make LONDON Queen Elizabeth Hall tonight;
>OXFORD Thurs; HUDDERSFIELD Friday or BIRMINGHAM Saturday make the effort,
>you won't regret it. Too bad that they were blown out by a promoter for 
>the
>Manchester gig on Monday night.
>
>Richard Gardner