Jeremy Carlstedt, Tim Motzer, David Torn

Blade Of – The Flowering Am

Listening Party Sunday 1:30pm ET

https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/carlstedt-motzer-torn-the-flowering-am-listening-partyJoin 1k Recordings for a free listening party to celebrate The Flowering Am. Listen to the album with legendary guitarist David Torn, drummer Jeremy Carlstedt, and guitarist Tim Motzer. They’ll chat about the making of The Flowering Am, take your questions, and talk about the upcoming Blade Of (plus David Torn Solo) concert at Egner Chapel at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA on April 26th. See you This Sunday April 21st! It will be a fun hang. Concert details below.

TIX: https://whennow.com/event/david-torn-solo–blade-of-carlstedt-motzer-torn

“Collectively, Torn, Motzer, and Carlstedt create a cinema of the interior in which the attentive listener is enclosed. Narratives twist back in on themselves in an instant, spiking into unseen spaces. Their soundtrack is as loud as mountain thunder, as quick as a precious thought through thin air.” Sid Smith

CONCERT:  David Torn Solo + Blade Of Carlstedt Motzer Torn
Join us April 26, 2024, at 7:00 PM in the magnificent Egner Memorial Chapel on the campus at Muhlenberg College. The evening will feature an opening solo set by David Torn as well as a full set by (Blade Of). The band will sign their new CD immediately following their performance. See you there, not to missed!

The Flowering Am: https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-flowering-am

Tomorrow! 9/10 at 8 pm
Ursula Rucker + Tim Motzer duo
Double bill with Irreversible Entanglements
at Solar Myth, Philadelphia

GET TICKETS HERE:
https://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/irreversible-entanglements-2/DON’T MISS this amazing double bill tomorrow night at Solar Myth in Phlladelphia with Irreversible Entanglements featuring Moor Mother celebrating their Impulse! record release, AND Ursula Rucker + Tim Motzer duo presenting new work + classics.

It’s gonna be a historic and astounding night of poetry and music like none other!

“From the moment that Ursula Rucker and Tim Motzer first unified their singular magical words-and-music efforts on the historic stages of Philly’s Tower Theater, opening for the legendarily conscious Nina Simone, all bets have been thrown off the table. Whether appearing within the intimate confines of a duet setting or something broader (but no less intrinsic and interpersonal), the divine cacophonous wordsmith and the clamorous textural guitarist have created tactile, co-joined waves of nuance and noise, of beauty, sex, strife and solace. Alone they are epic. Together, Rucker and Motzer are crucial, an emotional, intergalactic soulful soundscape too rare and too righteous to miss.”  – A.D. Amorosi

Ursula Rucker + Tim Motzer

• Ursula Rucker – voice
• Tim Motzer – el. guitar, electronics

Irreversible Entanglements

• Camae Ayewa – voice
• Keir Neuringer – saxophone
• Aquiles Navarro – trumpet
• Luke Stewart – bass
• Tcheser Holmes – drums

See you there! Be sure to get your tickets soon. This show will likely sellout!

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CD edition in a beautifully designed 6 panel gatefold wallet featuring Tim Motzer paintings along with Sid Smith liner notes, plus 24 bit, 48 khz hi-rez download: https://1krecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-flowering-am

The debut of this fully improvisational trio (Blade Of) features David Torn, Tim Motzer & Jeremy Carlstedt. Their new release, the flowering am, is the mark of their first meeting: a deep dive into spherical sonic & musical territories. The three atmospheric yet raw explorers, with two guitars, drums & electronics, create a density of sound that may approach the orchestral, with Torn’s abstractly romantic textures & overtones floating, spinning through the sprawling suite. Carlstedt’s drumming can just flip the band’s current equation; he creates exquisite firestorms, dynamic nuance and propels the music forward, and inward. Motzer, with his acoustic-electric guitar, shapeshifts throughout as sometimes bassist, soloist and re-arranger exploring the edges, curves, and corners in these astonishing journeys.

“Collectively, Torn, Motzer, and Carlstedt create a cinema of the interior in which the attentive listener is enclosed. Narratives twist back in on themselves in an instant, spiking into unseen spaces. Their soundtrack is as loud as mountain thunder, as quick as a precious thought through thin air.” Sid Smith