{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Prezens | type = Album | artist = David Torn | cover = Prezens.jpg | alt = | released = 2007 | recorded = March 2005 | venue = | studio = Clubhouse Studios<br>Rhinebeck, New York | genre = Jazz, Experimental | length = 72:38 | label = ECM<br>{{small|ECM 1877}} | producer = David Torn | chronology = David Torn | prev_title = Pandora's Toolbox | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = Only Sky | next_year = 2014 }}
'''''Prezens''''' is an album by guitarist David Torn recorded in March 2005 and released on ECM in 2007.<ref name="ECM discography">[http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1800/1877.php ECM discography] accessed November 15, 2011</ref>
==Reception== The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "''Prezens'' is one of those recordings where free improvisation and composition find an uneasy but cooperative working relationship making for one compelling listen after another."<ref name="Allmusic">Jurek, T. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/prezens-r1040922/review Allmusic Review] accessed September 26, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>}}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by David Torn except as indicated'' # "AK" (Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Craig Taborn, David Torn) – 9:19 # "Rest & Unrest" – 3:45 # "Structural Functions of Prezens" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) – 10:58 # "Bulbs" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) – 6:21 # "Them Buried Standing" – 2:43 # "Sink" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) – 7:16 # "Neck-Deep in the Harrow..." (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) – 12:33 # "Ever More Other" – 4:13 # "Ring for Endless Travel" – 2:24 # "Miss Place, The Mist..." (Matt Chamberlain, Torn) – 5:46 # "Transmit Regardless" (Berne, Rainey, Taborn, Torn) – 7:20
==Personnel== *David Torn – guitars, live-sampling and manipulation *Tim Berne – alto saxophone *Craig Taborn – Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, mellotron, bent circuits *Matt Chamberlain (track 10), Tom Rainey (tracks 1–9 & 11) – drums
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Category:ECM Records albums Category:David Torn albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher Category:2007 albums