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Chasing Light

Chasing Light

About Me

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Chasing Light is an ongoing project that evolves and grows. Located in Hillsborough, North Carolina it is the brain-child of Frank Tornoe. Frank has played bass over 2 decades and has appeared with several groups of varying genres. His own music spans ambient, jazz, fusion and rock idioms painstakingly created in his own studio. Various local musician he has played with have sat in on sessions for the music you can hear on this site. Please enjoy the music and feel free to reach out and get in touch!Free MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider

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Member Since: 10/28/2005
Band Website: chasinglightrecording.com/
Band Members: Frank Tornoe and guests

Influences: Andreas Vollenweiter, Jean Luc Ponty, Vangelis, Ozric Tentacles, Brian Eno, Brand X, Mark Isham, Bill Nelson, Terje Rypdal, Tribal Tech, Happy The Man, Pierre Moerlen's Gong Steve Hillage, Oregon and the list goes on and on.
Record Label: Independent

My Blog

Return To Forever Show in Philadelphia last night

I missed these guys the first time around because I was just a bit too young to be aware of them and it's not like they were getting any airplay or anything.  Last night I had a dream come true s...
Posted by Chasing Light on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:38:00 PST

Using Sound Forge to master old recordings

Last week I found, in my few remaining cassettes, a copy of an old release of mine.   I only have a cassette walkman to play it so I cleaned and de-magnetized the heads and connected it to my lap...
Posted by Chasing Light on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:10:00 PST

Back to recording

Back in the StudioWell it has been a while but I have been busy.  I've been spending time with the new gear and have some new stuff to report here about the journey so far.   I've integrated...
Posted by Chasing Light on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:35:00 PST

Chasing Light Jazz Fusion Jam

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Posted by Chasing Light on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:26:00 PST

Quote from Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree I found interesting.

I grew up listening to music from the golden era of album music - from the late '60s through the late - '70s - and that was an era in which the whole nature of rock music was elevated to a level of ar...
Posted by Chasing Light on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:37:00 PST

pertinent quote from Alan Watts - this is it

We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substitutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious w...
Posted by Chasing Light on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:44:00 PST

Back to the Studio again

Back to talking about the studio again.  I just purchased a new laptop that is going to be the lynchpin of my migration to recording / composing on a portable medium.  Over the next several ...
Posted by Chasing Light on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:53:00 PST

From the movie ’Altered States’

Life doesn't have great truths. We're born in doubt and spend our lives persuading ourselves we're alive and one way we do that is we love each other.
Posted by Chasing Light on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:57:00 PST

Quotes I like by Abe Lincoln:

Commitment is what tranforms promise into reality.Folks are generally as happy as they've made up their minds to be.Am I not destroying my enemies whe I make friends of them?
Posted by Chasing Light on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:49:00 PST

Apache wedding prayer (read at our wedding 9/11/93)

Now you will feel no rain,For each of you will be shelter to the other.Now you will feel no cold,For each of you will be warmth to the other.Now there is no more loneliness, For each of you will be co...
Posted by Chasing Light on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:05:00 PST