What Means Solid, Traveller?

1996 studio album by David Torn
What Means Solid, Traveler?
Studio album by
David Torn
Released1996
Recorded1995
GenreJazz fusion
Length62:25
LabelCMP Records
ProducerDavid Torn and Kurt Renker
David Torn chronology
Tripping Over God
(1995)
What Means Solid, Traveler?
(1996)
GTR OBLQ
(1998)
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What Means Solid, Traveller? is an album by guitarist David Torn, released in 1996.

Track listing

  1. "Spell Breaks with the Weather" (5:49)
  2. "What Means Solid, Traveller?" (6:52)
  3. "Such Little Mirrors" (7:22)
  4. "Tiny Burns a Bridge" (8:42)
  5. "Gidya Hana" (7:27)
  6. "Each Prince, to His Kingdom, Must Labor to Go" (3:58)
  7. Particle Bugs @ Purulia Station" (7:42)
  8. In the Sand of this Day (a) "I Will Not Be Free... (2:59)
  9. (b) "...Til You Are Free" (4:25) (live)
  10. "Elsewhere, Now Than Waving" (10:09)

Personnel

  • David Torn - guitar & guitar-like thingies, textural & rhythmic loops, samples, voices, the pink lark, percussion, Cody's viola, Elijah's bass, mandolina, kotar
  • Fima Ephron - acoustic bass (tracks 5 & 7), el bass (first half of track 5)

Samples from -

  • Will Calhoun - drum kit loop (track 1)
  • Cannonball Adderley - little spoken vocal (track 1)
  • Gota Yashiki - the groove activator, drumkit loops (tracks 2,3 & 9)
  • Steve Jansen - drum kit loop (track 5)
  • David Ruffy - drum kit loop (track 7)
  • Mitch Mitchell - drum kit fill (track 9)
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums
  • Best Laid Plans (1984)
  • Cloud About Mercury (1986)
  • What Means Solid, Traveller? (1995)
  • Prezens (2005)
  • Only Sky (2014)
Live albums
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