Thursday, 12 June 2008
David Torn
Artist: David Torn
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Avantgarde
Jazz
Jazz: Jazz-Rock
Discography:
The Order
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Polytown
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
What Means Solid Traveller
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Tripping Over God
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Door X
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Cloud About Mercury
Year: 1986
Tracks: 6
Best Laid Plans
Year: 1985
Tracks: 1
Soft Cells
Year:
Tracks: 61
Microsong Cells
Year:
Tracks: 12
Hard Cells
Year:
Tracks: 40
Cell Damage
Year:
Tracks: 60
New York-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, isaac M. Singer, writer, and self-described "texturalist/guitarist" David Torn lent his distinctive expressive style to legion films and documentaries and collaborations. He worked with composers Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as appeared on recordings from k.d. lang, David Bowie, Jim Carroll, Laurie Anderson, and a host of others. His solo workings let in Best Laid Plans (1984), Cloud About Mercury (1986), Door X (1990), Swingy Over God (1995), What Means Solid, Traveller? (1996), Splattercell's Oah (2000), the soundtrack to the Heath Ledger thriller The Order (2003), and the ECM acquittance Prezens (2007).