MYSTIC, by The Sunny Four: David Torn, Aurora Nealand, Ches Smith, Tim Berne

MYSTIC

by The Sunny Four: David Torn, Aurora Nealand, Ches Smith, Tim Berne

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James Hastings I love this because it’s always moving, it’s going somewhere moment by moment and not exactly settling. Plus the saxophones sound crunchy - like the honeycomb and chocolate bar.

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Aurora Nealand - accordion, Bb clarinet, voice & tronics
Ches Smith -drums & tronics
David Torn - el guitar,modifiers & live-multi-looping
Tim Berne - alto saxophone

hey, hey!
here be the recorded unveiling of The Sunny Four, in its naturally broad-, stretching- and unfolding-state: performed In Real Time. (that, similar-to but def not the-same-as its long-standing core, Sun of Goldfinger.)
but --- ok, silly question --- was Time ever even Real, in that place on that night?

maybe it was, and it wasn't... as the bright quartet rightly birthed & destroyed old & new moments by simply explorerating whatever ineffable edges & bodies of communication that the 3rd party --- i mean, the music itself --- revealed to us: but together. always together, even when seeming to be in temporary or individualistic "oppositions", lol.
because why/how?
because trust in something other is shared strongly with this expanding fam: it's known, it's created anew in real-time... and quietly, deeply demands our respect & our truest efforts.

--- dt, April 3, 2023

credits

released April 7, 2023

Recorded live by Beau Gordon at Solar Myth in Philadelphia march 10th. Concert produced by ARS NOVA/Mark Christman
Mixed and mastered by David Torn
Photo by Kevin Reilly
Copy & pasted, uploaded & decoded by Jason Tors
Very special thanks to Tony Creamer