New Sonar + David Torn interview on Innerviews + Documentary Series

**Innerviews** · 03-23-2018

Hey everyone,

There's a new interview with Sonar and David Torn discussing their new album Vortex on their fantastic new label RareNoise (due March 30th).

The interview is with both Stephan Thelen of Sonar (founder, guitarist, composer) and David.

Lots of creative process stuff and unexpected things that happened during the sessions. It really was one of those recordings that don't happen that much anymore -- all five people locked together in a high-end studio for a week, and capturing the fire and magic that occurred.

The Innerviews piece, with brand new interviews is here: http://www.innerviews.org/inner/sonar-with-david-torn

The video documentary series we shot in Zurich during the sessions is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRT...27ZerdCLiTYkYQ (The first four parts are out, including David's interview. Hang on to the very end for a Marvel-like postscript ;-) ).

I guess this could seem like an "ad" but that would only be true if I received a single penny for anything I did. ;-)

A labor of love for all involved.

**cazz** · 03-23-2018

How's the album?

**proggy_jazzer** · 03-23-2018

Great interviews, both video and written. Really looking forward to this. Will this be distributed by anyone stateside? If not, perfectly happy to order direct from Rare Noise.

**Steve F.** · 03-23-2018

Originally Posted by proggy_jazzer

Will this be distributed by anyone stateside? If not, perfectly happy to order direct from Rare Noise.

Their fantastic old label's mail order operation will have them in stock next Wednesday or so.

**proggy_jazzer** · 03-23-2018

Originally Posted by Steve F.

Their fantastic old label's mail order operation will have them in stock next Wednesday or so.

Excellent - thanks!

**Innerviews** · 03-24-2018

All, the best place to buy it and support the artists and people that financed the project is directly from Rarenoise here: https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/sonar

**battema** · 03-24-2018

I'll wait for Wayside, thanks Steve

**wiz_d_kidd** · 03-25-2018

Originally Posted by Innerviews

All, the best place to buy it and support the artists and people that financed the project is directly from Rarenoise here: https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/sonar

I looked at this site for downloading MP3 files, and found a couple of concerns...
1) even though the download page showed a picture of the new "Vortex" album, the text says "BUY the MP3 release of Solo A Genova by Jamie Saft.", so I'm not certain what I'm getting.
2) they do not say what bit-rate their MP3 are encoded to. I won't buy anything less than 320kbps. Again, I don't know what I'm getting.

**Nashorn** · 03-25-2018

Originally Posted by wiz_d_kidd

I looked at this site for downloading MP3 files, and found a couple of concerns...
1) even though the download page showed a picture of the new "Vortex" album, the text says "BUY the MP3 release of Solo A Genova by Jamie Saft.", so I'm not certain what I'm getting.
2) they do not say what bit-rate their MP3 are encoded to. I won't buy anything less than 320kbps. Again, I don't know what I'm getting.

I bought my MP3s there (couldn't wait until my pre-ordered CD will arrive), and had no issues. The files are 320 kbps.

**Dave (in MA)** · 03-26-2018

Originally Posted by wiz_d_kidd

I looked at this site for downloading MP3 files, and found a couple of concerns...
1) even though the download page showed a picture of the new "Vortex" album, the text says "BUY the MP3 release of Solo A Genova by Jamie Saft.", so I'm not certain what I'm getting.
2) they do not say what bit-rate their MP3 are encoded to. I won't buy anything less than 320kbps. Again, I don't know what I'm getting.

If you do Add to Cart you see the correct item in the Basket. Classic copy and paste mistake on the part of whomever's running the site.

**markwoll** · 03-26-2018

Originally Posted by battema

I'll wait for Wayside, thanks Steve

Indeed!

**wiz_d_kidd** · 03-30-2018

Well, I downloaded the album from RareNoiseRecords just fine. I saw this lineup (with David Torn) at ProgDay this past September Even though they had some real-time mixing issues which caused Mr. Torn's guitar to completely drown out the rest of the band, I suspected they would rectify the issues on the album, and they did. It's a well balanced, fantastic album... I love it!