Thursday, June 01, 2006

Album of the Day

What Means Solid, Traveller?, by David Torn (1996): I often wonder what album I would pull out of my collection if someone asked to hear the weirdest bit of music I own. Aside from Crimson's THRaKaTTaK, this one probably takes the cake. Torn is a guitarist, but most of what he cranks out doesn't sound much like guitar stuff. The songs here involve lots of loops and hunks of noise - nothing danceable! That being the case, I don't find a lot to distinguish one tune from another. Makes for an interesting listen now and then, but not a particularly memorable one.

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