TRANCEPORTATION - VOLUME 1 (WITH DAVID TORN)

SONAR invited David Torn back for the second straight studio album after the success of 2018's "Vortex". Here we are a year later with "Tranceportation-Volume 1" but this time the music has been composed with David Torn in mind. Despite this fact I still prefer "Vortex" to this one. I was really hoping this album might crack my top three SONAR related albums, but no. A solid 4 stars but this one doesn't move out of it's comfort zone, being quite uniform sounding throughout, to the point each track sounds very similar.

I still have "Vortex" and "Three Movements" as my favourite SONAR records then add Stephan Thelen's "Fractal Guitar" and you have my top three. Love the tritone guitars and bass on this one. A five piece lineup including Torn as we have three guitarists with both Stephan Thelen and Bernhard Wagner playing tritone guitars. Torn doesn't. He has his electric plus adds live looping. Christian Kuntner on bass is a big improvement with his tritone bass to the FRACTAL SEXTET bass sound. And I found that band to be too minimalistic.

It is pretty cool the atmosphere and spacey sounds that are created through the guitars. No keyboards here. Manuel Pasquinelli is like a Swiss clock on drums and percussion. This album sounds amazing clocking in at a tidy 39 minutes over four tracks. I won't describe the tracks as I will be repeating myself constantly. A top ten for 2019 but I will take Stephan Thelen's "Fractal Guitar" also from 2019 over this in a heartbeat. This music is incredible to listen to when driving I might add.

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