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David Torn (ensemble show) with Andre LaFosse (opening) WHERE: NYC - MAKOR performance space -35 W 67th. WHEN: WED JAN 28 - 2004 Well well - the snow it sucked royally to park!!.. And that¹s a tough area to park anyway.. After the show I had to be PUSHED outta the spot I was in... Yikes. The snow/NYC parking debacle did make me miss my good buddy/opening act Andre LaFosse... west coast andre¹ to my east coast andre¹... As we¹re known here on ye olde loopers e-list. Tho -we may confuse the issue and switch coasts next year (?) WHO: DAVID TORN/guitar textures, madness and beauty. FIMA EPHRON/ac and el bass (screaming headless torsos etc), and one of my fave sax players TIM BERNE, plus BEN PEROWSKY on skins, a couple triggers and real bells. Super inspiring. WHAT: Torn played a new guitar (what was that...?). Axe had a myriad of cool swqitches yeilding many diff sounds --there was also a little condenser(?) mic on the upper horn of the gtr -- for sampling whatever..EDP, Repeater, Korg Electribe..and many other custom and strange sound makers/tweakers... all thru Rivera amps and a SECRET new tube head that he is co-designing with an amp god... HOW: Great show.. What can I say...?? Seemed like a lot of free-form improv stuff - the best! I didn¹t really recognize any themes per se... DT would somehow capture Tim Berne's sax playing.. And loop it..layer it, send it back to Tim as a bass line...rhythmic bed..or counterpoint melodies. This was f-in great to hear and see - it was truly 'live production and editing'. If you don't know Berne's work check it out NOW.... What a quietly revolutionary player...Very wide dynamic range. The quartet moved from jazzy feel to over-the top skronk with nary a seam. Fima is such a great listener. He would come in with a funky pattern right when it was really needed. Never fell into the bass trap of 'groove-groove-groove-and-never-stop playing' BEST PART WAS - everyone onstage LISTENED to the other musicians.... Wow! Musically - Super inspiring. Torn's chunk of the universe makes me really feel at home.. Polyrhythms... African/asia/mid east/beefheartian and other melodies float in and out.. Mutant-Jazz chords...the soul of HENDRIX... Loops, textures, building-melting filtered distorto sounds..and gentle winds of ambience.... SITINGS: A quick pre-show hello with another buddy - violinist Todd Reynolds... You can hear him with ETHEL, Betty Buckley, Steve Reich and sooo many other artists!! Todd and Andre have some kinda looping workshop on Saturday Got to meet Torn sound engineer/Levin Band engineer/recordist/cool dude Robert Frazza..also met LOU from the loopers-delight group....RICHARD also... And I'm ashamed to say I forgot a couple other names!! But - the group was well represented!! Got to talk a bit of shop and music with DT - we also talked a bit about the excellent soundtracks for TRAFFIC and THREE KINGS - at that point Mr Torn also recommended his recent soundtrack for THE ORDER... [I wanted to see that anyway... It¹s (loosely) about the dark secret crap and secret societies the catholic church gets into behind locked doors....NO - this isn't a statement on the ENTIRE church..save yer email explanation...] SITES: TORN http://splattercell.com/ EPHRON http://www.fimamusic.com/fima/bio.html BERNE http://www.screwgunrecords.com/ PEROWSKY http://www.perowsky.com/