{"id":18975,"date":"2020-06-27T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18975"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:35:44","slug":"album-review-sonar-with-david-torn-tranceportation-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/27\/album-review-sonar-with-david-torn-tranceportation-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sonar with David Torn &#8212; Tranceportation (Volume 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18976\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sonar_tranceportation2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sonar_tranceportation2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sonar_tranceportation2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sonar_tranceportation2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/hundred-word-reviews-new-releases\/#sonar\">my April 2018 review of <em>Vortex<\/em><\/a>, the first collaboration between Sonar and guitar master David Torn, I likened the music to \u201880s-period King Crimson at its most accessible, citing Crim\u2019s \u201cThe Sheltering Sky\u201d instrumental as a useful reference point. Between then and now I seem to have missed an album by this aggregation, because what I\u2019m listening to right now is titled <em>Tranceportation (Volume 2)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The smoldering, moody ambience of that first album comes slinking back for this release. In fact, the <em>exact<\/em> tone Robert Fripp used on &#8220;The Sheltering Sky&#8221; makes a fleeting appearance courtesy of David Torn, who, it should be emphasized, has plenty ideas of his own) around the ten-minute mark of this album&#8217;s title track.<\/p>\n<p>Torn is credited with electric guitar and live looping; he\u2019s supremely adept at the latter, as I learned when I first saw him in performance. The three strong-playing members of Sonar (two guitarists and a bassist) employ the historically controversial (theologically banned!) tritone scale for tuning. If from that you wonder if there\u2019s anything sinister about it, well, just listen (Spoiler: yes.) And it\u2019s much more tuneful than you might guess.<\/p>\n<p>If you can imagine ambient music with a beat, occasionally topped with soaring lead guitar that may remind you of anyone from Joe Satriani to David Gilmour to Steven Wilson, then you\u2019ll have some sense of what\u2019s on offer here. The four tracks (more than 40 minutes\u2019 worth of listening adventure) feature no vocals to trouble your blissed-out listening experience, but there\u2019s more than enough going on to reward active listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my April 2018 review of Vortex, the first collaboration between Sonar and guitar master David Torn, I likened the music to \u201880s-period King Crimson at its most accessible, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49,56,65],"tags":[643,3384],"class_list":["post-18975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instrumental","category-new-release","category-prog","category-review","tag-david-torn","tag-sonar","cat-40-id","cat-49-id","cat-56-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18979,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions\/18979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}