David Torn : unique guitarist

David Torn is important guitarist, with a distinct 'signature' sound, which he puts to great use on his own albums, albums of bands which he has been a member, and often contributing  special sonic landscapes when he has produced other peoples albums (I believe he was house producer for indie label Alchemy Records in the 90's).  There was a time whilst signed to the Anglo-German label CMP, he was a very sick man, suffering from a brain tumor but thankfully  he passed through that tribulation. Personally I go for Cloud About Mercury - a concept resurrected by Bill Bruford and Tony Levin over a decade later as BLUE alas without Mark Isham

Edited by Dick Heath - May 02 2007 at 10:16

I guess I 'll go cloud because it was the first album I listen by him. not because I knew who he was, but because of the Crimson members. it is a awesome album I still love the album after many years later Highly recommended to kc fans and fusion fans.David torrn landscape sounds sunk in and takes to place that you never been before .

superprog wrote: i love Cloud About Mercury too (that seems to be the almost unanimous choice) but no one here has heard his work on the Lonely Universe s/t album on CMP?  think it was released in the late 80s or early 90s.............thats was one brilliant fusion album, dark, edgy and trippy!!!