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when: Thu 16 April  
Event title Note Presents: David Torn's Presens
Where: Whelans - Dublin
Category: Gigs
 
Event description:
DAVID TORN'S PREZENS
Featuring Tim Berne, Graig Taborn and Tom Rainey

Virtuoso guitarist and electronics magician David Torn makes his Irish debut with his latest project, Prezens.

Prezens is the stunning band featuring Tim Berne, Graig Taborn and Tom Rainey that recently released the acclaimed album of the same name for ECM. On it, Torn produces atmospheres like Venus – dense and scarily beautiful, with an alien palette and giant storms of sulphuric acid clouds. Yet there is also frenetic energy, grimy funk and trippy electronica here.

David Torn is a fascinating multi-faceted artist: composer, texturalist and producer. He has played and been a significant long-terms collaborator with innovative artists from across the spectrum including David Bowie, Tori Amos, Mick Karn, David Sylvian and Jan Garbarek. His work is a collision of the organic and the synthetic, of technology and physicality. He is a key influence in ambient and looped music. From his landmark release Cloud About Mercury (ECM), he has also released the solo gems Tripping Over God, What Means Solid, Traveller? and Polytown. He has also excelled in composing soundtracks for films such as The Departed and Lars and The Real Girl.

Prezens project is one of the most compelling and visceral bands to emerge in 2008.

"This time around Torn has teamed up with a cracking band... But this is not just an off-duty jazz jam. Torn takes the contingencies of improvising... and reworks them into music full of contrasts, dynamic changes and narrative drive." The Guardian

"I, and rest of the audience, went wild when David Torn's Prezens played... The show had taken the rich resources of this formidable quartet to another level" John Fordham, The Guardian.

www.myspace.com/prezens
http://www.note.ie/htm/series/2009/torn.htm

TICKETING INFORMATION
Wednesday 15th April, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
Tickets 18 and 16 Euro (including booking fee)
Bookings www.triskelartscentre.ie or 021 427 20 22
Doors 7.30pm; show starts at 8pm.

Thursday 16th April, Whelans, Dublin
Tickets 20 Euro (including booking fee).
Bookings: www.ticketmaster.ie and www.tickets.ie, 0818 719 300 (Ticketmaster), and Claddagh Records.
Ticketmaster telephone and internet bookings subject to a maximum 12.5% service charge, agents 2 Euro.
Doors: 8.00pm; show starts 8.30pm.
 
Location
Venue Whelans
Homepage: http://www.whelanslive.com  
Street: 25 Wexford Street
ZIP: Dublin 2
City Dublin
Country: IE
 
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