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Cloud About Mercury David Torn. Add to Custom List Add to Collection AllMusic Rating. User Rating (0) Your Rating. STREAM OR BUY: Release Date 1987. Duration 45:15. Genre. Jazz. Styles. Experimental, Fusion, Global Jazz, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument. Recording Date. March, 1986.
“Everything is in a state of transition,” David Torn explained. “Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change.” The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose sonorities are closely related to progressive rock (the rhythm section is half of one incarnation of King Crimson) and to the experimental end ...
2019 CD in card sleeve edition of David Torn 's essential 1986 release Cloud About Mercury. Featuring Torn in a quartet with Bill Bruford, Tony Levin and Mark Isham, the album is a restlessly inventive combination of Art Rock, Fusion and Ambient Jazz experiments that is regarded as one of the best Progressive releases of the 1980s.
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (B.L.U.E.) was a musical group consisting of drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Torn, and trumpeter Chris Botti. [1] The group's origins can be traced to Torn's ECM Records album Cloud About Mercury (1987), which featured Levin and Bruford (along with Mark Isham playing trumpet).
His 1987 ECM date, Cloud About Mercury, with Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, and Mark Isham, is universally considered a classic of progressive music. His work with the bassist/clarinetist Mick Karn that began on 1992's Door X led to a years-long collaboration and the recording of Polytown (1994) with drummer Terry Bozzio.
Historia. Bill Bruford comenzó su carrera como batería amateur tocando Jazz en la década de los 60's tras sustituir a Lou Pocock. Su carrera profesional comenzó en 1968 con el grupo Yes y poco después en King Crimson donde estuvo inicialmente de 1972 a 1974, además de haber participado con Genesis en 1976, de todo lo cual obtuvo la confianza suficiente para escribir y tocar su propia ...
Nearly 30 years before the release of only sky came Torn’s ECM album Cloud About Mercury, with trumpeter Mark Isham and the latter-day King Crimson rhythm section of Tony Levin and Bill Bruford. Torn’s initial tenure with ECM also included Best Laid Plans , his 1984 release with drummer Geoffrey Gordon; and the guitarist featured on Jan Garbarek’s album It’s OK to Listen to the Gray ...
