David Torn's eagerly-awaited first ECM recording in 21 years is a sonic voyage that defies categories and blurs boundaries. Prezens is also the debut of a unique band featuring three of the most recognizable names in experimental jazz - Tim Berne, Craig Taborn and Tom Rainey. The CD has all of the David Torn trademarks: multi-layered textures, thick chords, disruptions, distortions and hypnotic loops. On this Torn production, or "reconsideration" as he calls it, he wraps his sounds around those of his band mates, often taking apart their improvisations and reassembling them.