It’s rather wonderful when discovering music for the first time with which many others are familiar. A bit like finding a new path nearby that you’ve not previously noticed before and discovering new vistas and points of interest on your…
View More Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation (Volume 2)
The second instalment of the collision of soundworlds known as Sonar and David Torn arrives by design rather by accident. Whereas Vortex was the result of Torn’s exploratory guitar finding a home amongst Sonar’s cyclical minimalist grooves after the music…
View More Sonar with David Torn – Tranceportation (Volume 1)
The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London Saturday, 1st December 2018 If ever an area was best suited as a prime example of modern London’s cosmopolitan buzz, then Dalston, a part of the London Borough of Hackney, is that area. Teeming…
View More Sonar + David Torn
Sonar, Swiss masters of multi-rhythm tritone minimalism, continue their career-long quest for a state of grace with Vortex, an album made with American impressionist guitar slinger David Torn, a combination of opposites that compliments one another marvellously on a scintillating…
View More Sonar with David Torn – Vortex
Hardly a week seems to go by at the moment without the announcement of a new album from or involving German composer, Touch guitarist and electronica wiz Markus Reuter. In the last few months we’ve had the essential (and free…
View More Markus Reuter feat. SONAR & Tobias Reber – Falling For Ascension
Sonar are a Swiss band consisting of two guitars, bass and drums, and they play progressive music that uses contrapuntal polyrhythms entwined with precise melody and counter melody to create an intense rising tide of minimalistic but simultaneously dense sound…
View More Sonar – Black Light
Swiss minimalists Sonar were formed after guitarists Stephen Thelen and Bernhard Wagner had attended Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft classes. The pair recruited drummer Manuel Pasquinelli and bassist Christian Kuntner and Sonar was born. Inspired by the Crimson line-ups of 1972…
View More Sonar – Static Motion