Search - Artist/Band: David Torn

• Name: David Torn
• Birthday: 05/26/1953
• Birth Place: Amityville, NY
• Decades Active: 2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Fusion, Original Score, Soundtracks, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental
• Moods: Nocturnal, Aggressive, Hedonistic, Brash, Brooding, Clinical, Cold, Gutsy, Passionate, Provocative, Raucous, Cathartic, Outrageous, Swaggering, Difficult

Title	Release
Lars and the Real Girl WA	10/23/2007
Prezens WA	04/17/2007
The Order	08/26/2003
Oah	10/03/2000
Is Love	09/19/2000
The Collection	04/21/1998
What Means Solid, Traveller? WA	04/15/1996
Tripping Over God WA	1995
Door X	1990
Cloud About Mercury WA	1987
Best Laid Plans WA	07/1984

New York-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer, writer, and self-described "texturalist/guitarist" David Torn lent his distinctive style to numerous 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 works include Best Laid Plans (1984), Cloud About Mercury (1986), Door X (1990), Tripping 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 release Prezens (2007). ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide