Golden Hallway Music: Rules & Chance Vol. 3 CS

Manhattan’s resident innerspace organist Zack Tornaben centers the third installment of his ongoing Rules & Chance series on breath, tone, and the ancient Qigong practice “Eight Pieces of the Silk Brocade.” Working once again with the classic Golden Hallway Music palette – a pair of reel-to-reel tape machines, a 49-key Acetone combo organ, and an 80’s synth clone – everything was recorded live without overdubs in sprawling séance sessions, then digitally transferred for distillation into choice excerpts. Swirling reveries of skylines and stained glass, Tornaben’s process prizes intuition, intimacy, and “feeling around in the dark,” inspired by a pantheon of greats from the grand tradition of harmonic divination: Young to McClellan, Brouk to Battiato. Rules & Chance Vol. 3 gently expands his evolving lexicon of daydream minimalism – levitational and limitless, born of passing thoughts and everyday joys, rippling in the mind like light on water.