Album of the Day

What Means Solid, Traveller?, by David Torn (1995): When I picked this album up out of the cutout bin of the local CD shop it was because (a) I vaguely recognized the name from some kind of connection with Robert Fripp and (b) it was cheap. It's one of the oddest things I own. A primarily solo album, Torn does things with a guitar that you wouldn't think possible (in the liner notes he writes "There are no synthesizers on this recording, so if ya don't recognize a sound, just assume it's a guitar, okay?"). He also makes an extensive use of looping techniques. Thus, it's appropriate that Torn created a disc full of loops for Sony Media that is on my want list.