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“An immersive sonic experience… consistently unpredictable and thrilling and often quite gorgeous.” (Treble Magazine)
Sun of Goldfinger
David Torn – guitar, effects
Tim Berne – saxophone
Ches Smith – drums, electronics
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
Ikie Lu Record Club
doors: 6:30pm / music: 7:30pm
601 N. Lucas Street
West Columbia, South Carolina
“Alien inventiveness… a rare combination of the fantastic and futuristic.” (Audiophile Edition)
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The Musicians:
Guitar wizard David Torn, known for his “stormy, sometimes folksy, sometimes splinteringly Hendrixian” sound (The Guardian) and “considered virtuosity” (Pitchfork) has for several decades made music that obliterates boundaries between rock, jazz, and electronic genres. The result is a unique body of collaborative and solo work. Over the decades he has recorded with artists such as David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, John Legend, Tori Amos, David Sylvian, Bill Bruford, Don Cherry, Jan Garbarek, Tony Levin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and many others, including his two Sun of Goldfinger bandmates. Torn brings together “the pyrotechnics of classic rock and fusion” and “a ruminative, personal style” that generate “the feeling of being ensconced in sound; your ear is caught in a battle between gravity and weightlessness” (New York Times).
Tim Berne is a legend of the downtown New York scene. The New York Times calls Berne a “D.I.Y. Jazz Institution” who creates “music that packs a visceral thrill despite its elaborate sonic geometry.” His bands have been (and continue to be) the training grounds for an impressive number of musicians who go on to be the hot names in jazz of their day. Since the early 1980s he has been known for complex music that subtly merges knottily composed melodies and counterpoint with improvisation that ranges from the punchy and bold to the delicate and tender. His music is so much its own thing that critic Nate Chinen says we should abandon labels like “avant-garde” for it and just call it “Tim Berne Music.”
Ches Smith is a “tremendously gifted drummer and composer” whose music is “pushing boundaries in all different directions” (Jazz Trail). He has played in other bands with Berne (such as Snakeoil) as well as in groups led by John Zorn, Mary Halvorson, Marc Ribot, Dave Holland, and others. He also has released several albums as a leader, the latest of which is Clone Row, a stunning recording that Jazzwise calls an “extraordinary, innovative, quartet debut” and that the San Diego Union-Tribune calls “a wonderfully kinetic synthesis” of “left-of-center rock, cutting-edge jazz, electronica, funk, experimental music, and more.”
On Instagram: David Torn / Tim Berne / Ches Smith
“The music is grand, expansive, dramatic, epic… compelling and beyond what you’ve heard before.” (Free Jazz)
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