David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith - Sun of Goldfinger (Teaser) | ECM Records

David Torn / Tim Berne / Ches Smith Sun of Goldfinger Tim Berne: alto saxophone Ches Smith: drums, electronics, tanbou David Torn: electric guitar, live-looping, electronics ECM 2613 Release: March 1, 2019 Available on CD, download & streaming: Guitarist-composer David Torn, a longstanding ECM artist, has enjoyed a particularly fruitful 21st-century with the label, releasing two albums under his own name – the solo only sky and quartet disc prezens – in addition to producing records by Tim Berne and Michael Formanek. With Sun of Goldfinger, Torn returns in a trio alongside the alto saxophonist Berne and percussionist Ches Smith (a member of Berne’s Snakeoil band who made his ECM leader debut in 2016 with The Bell). The Torn/Berne/Smith trio, also dubbed Sun of Goldfinger, features alone on two of this album’s three intense tracks of 20-plus minutes; the vast sonic tapestries of “Eye Meddle” and “Soften the Blow” – each spontane