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About Me

Torin Williams has decided to go professional with his myspace page, and so from here on out will talk about himself in the third person. Seriously.... this guy is cooler than anybody else in the entire world - take it from me, an impartial third party. He should be a lot famouser in my humble, unbiased opinion. In 2004 he left behind family and a host of loved ones in Chicago for greener pastures in Sweden and later found out that they were only green for around two solid months in the summer. The rest of the time they were a sort of wet greyish-brown. -------------------------------------- He has been involved with music and the stage since conception, as his mother and father were a singer and an actor. The musical side was strengthened later by his step-father who is a conductor and singer himself. Torin's early influences were the great composers and singers of opera, and an endless stream of it flowed through his young ears. He counts Pavarotti as one of his first rock concerts. Then came the eighties and his second was Richard Marx. Yeah...they were trying times. He chose to study opera at Luther college. He dropped out and moved to Michigan for a girl, but ended up studying his new-found love, Jazz, at Western Michigan University. The final two years of college were spent in Minnesota honing his skills in composition and broadening his sense of musical taste. ------------------------------------------- Torin Williams has two self-produced full-length albums available ("A Brief Trip Down the Short and Narrow" and "Eight more songs you can't dance to"), and is hard at work on his third. Torin loves to collaborate with like-minded artists, so check out my....err...I mean HIS other page at www.myspace.com/torincollab
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Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/torincollab
Band Members: Torin Willams - keys, bass and drum programming, voices, noises, gasoline-powered tuba, modified empty corn-flakes box, and cat.

Influences: Peter Gabriel, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, tons of acapella music, Debussy, large amounts of coffee, Stravinsky, Ravel, The Flaming Lips, early Pearl Jam, BjÃ¶rk, Alice in Chains, Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Existentialism, Schubert, Rossini, Mark Murphy, too little sleep, Kurt Elling, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Siddharta Gautama, dreams of large-breasted women, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa, Douglas Adams, Miles Davis, Tool, Eddie Harris, The Beatles, Ben Folds, the frickin' Swedish weather, Tori Amos, Queen, Yes, The Real Group, Bob Dylan, NIN, probably should throw in Mom and Dad here, and a rather large assortment of others I should say. body div table tbody tr td font {visibility:hidden;}DONOTBLOCKOURADS body div table tbody tr td a font, .navbar
Sounds Like: Peter Gabriel, The Postal Service, Prince, BjÃ¶rk, Beach Boys, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Your mom cooking a plastic tricycle on the barbeque.
Record Label: yes please.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

News from lake Wobegon

Gots a new song up. The producer of the backing track is a friend of the producer I did "Clear" with. You might notice that they both like plucky strings. Well, so does this guy ==> &n...
Posted by Torin Williams on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:43:00 PST

3rd time's a charm....

"She Sleeps" has been selected for review by Future Music magazine! It's the third song of mine they've selected this year. I also just won some cool drum-programming software from www.yoursound....
Posted by Torin Williams on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:48:00 PST

Bermuda?

Who in all Zarquon's creation is listening to me from the island of Bermuda!? I would certainly not complain. It's just fun to have to zoom in halfway to see where the vote from nearly the middle of a...
Posted by Torin Williams on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:58:00 PST

FEATURED ARTIST on www.yoursound.se !!!

About two weeks ago, I uploaded a few songs on a site called yoursound.se. It is affiliated with a chain of music stores here called 4sound. Their goal is to be for northern Europe what myspace w...
Posted by Torin Williams on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:09:00 PST

the tracks to Varanasi

Fri. 22 Oct. 04 I am sitting in the Shiva Guest House, recovering once again from the hardships of travel in India. Our train had been scheduled for a 9:30pm departure from Haridwar, and we arrived a...
Posted by Torin Williams on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:22:00 PST

Unrest on the road to peace...

Tues. 2 Nov. 04 Today the fate of a nation is being decided on the other side of the world. With it, the fates of many other lands lie in the balance as well. I am talking about the presidential elec...
Posted by Torin Williams on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:55:00 PST

My first reaction to health care in India

Tues. 21 Sept. 04 The rain looked to be starting a few hours later than usual today. That's the real complaint I have against weather; it's so unpredictable. It always catches you when you are in a f...
Posted by Torin Williams on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST

AS FEATURED IN FUTURE MUSIC MAGAZINE!

Yeah, so I sent a demo to this London based magasine for musicians, producers, and home recording enthusiasts. And well, I guess they picked Wanderer to be on the monthly DVD with 2-9 others hand pick...
Posted by Torin Williams on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:46:00 PST

AIRPLAY IN NORWAY AND JAPAN!!!

I just got the news that one of my collaborations with a Swedish producer is getting airplay on Norwegian national radio. You can check out "Let Me" at www.myspace.com/torincollab Also, an ultra...
Posted by Torin Williams on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:42:00 PST

COLLABORATIONS!!!

I have a new spot where I will be posting collaborations with other myspacers. It is at www.myspace.com/torincollab. If you are interested in doing something together, email me an mp3 (128kbps) and I'...
Posted by Torin Williams on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:46:00 PST