Name: Only Sky
Brand: David Torn

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Universal Music GmbH

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2015-05-22

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4708869

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David Torn

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Ecm Records

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ECM Records, also known as "The Creative Label," is a German independent label that was co-founded by producer Manfred Eicher, Manfred Scheffner, and Karl Egger in Munich (Pasing) in 1969. With the label code LC 2516 / LC 02516, ECM stands for Edition of Contemporary Music and focuses on jazz and Western classical music. They showcase both acoustic and electronic artists who produce eclectic versions of contemporary music.

ECM's extensive catalog features a wide range of genres, from contemporary works by renowned composers like Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, and Philip Glass to experimental and electronic jazz from artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Pat Metheny Group, and Jan Garbarek. Over the past 40+ years, ECM has released more than 1500 recordings that have been acclaimed for their exceptional music quality, creative production techniques, and outstanding sound.

Although an independent label, ECM titles are distributed by Universal Music Group (UMG) in the US, Japan, and throughout Europe. However, they have also collaborated with other distributors over the years. Notably during the period when Polydor distributed ECM products in Germany; [l447694] was used for pressing identified by a CP suffix on labels and runouts. Afterward,[l25946] became their primary distributor.

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David Torn - ever-intrepid guitarist, producer, improviser, film composer and soundscape artist - returns with 'only sky', an album that explores the far sonic edges of what one man and a guitar can create, a solo recording of almost orchestral atmosphere. It is Torn's first ECM release since 2007's acclaimed 'prezens', a full-band project (with Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey) that Jazzwise described as "a vibrating collage full of shimmering sonic shapes, a dark, urban electronic soundscape - a potent mix of jazz, free-form rock and technology that is both demanding and rewarding." Many of those same descriptors apply to 'only sky', with its hovering ambient shadows and vaulting flashes of light, its channeling of deep country/blues memories and Burroughsian dreams of North Africa. Recorded in the acoustically apt hall of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in upstate New York (and then sorted and mixed in Torn's own mad-scientist lair), 'only sky' is an album to get lost in, over and again. David Torn's initial ECM album was 'Best Laid Plans' (1984); and he also featured on Jan Garbarek's 'It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice' before recording his vintage 'Cloud About Mercury', with trumpeter Mark Isham and the latter-day King Crimson rhythm section of Tony Levin and Bill Bruford. More recently, Torn produced and mixed Tim Berne's ECM albums 'Shadow Man' and 'You've Been Watching Me'. Torn's film scores include those for 'Friday Night Lights', 'Lars and the Real Girl', 'Believe in Me' and 'The Order'. He has also contributed tones and textures to scores by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carter Burwell and Mark Isham, and his sounds can be heard in the Academy Award winners 'Traffic' and 'The Departed'. Personnel: David Torn (guitar, electric oud)

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