Bio

Tor was raised in a small mountain town on Canada's west coast, in a non-musical family, and was isolated from a lot of musical influence. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he first tried his hand at music production. After he and the local kids began listening to a lot of the Hip Hop coming out in the mid 90’s, he began to experiment with the basic audio editing program that came standard with his family's Pentium 90 computer and ended up remixing Outkast’s entire album 'ATLiens' by copy / pasting different parts of the songs.

Later, while living in Australia, he expanded his production knowledge and started making original music, and had the opportunity to remix some popular Australian producers and Hip Hop acts. After being offered a deal on a well-known indie label, but not feeling ready to take the next step, he shifted his attention to running a small recording studio from home and honed his mixing skills. Eventually, becoming frustrated with the ups and downs of running a studio, Tor abandoned music-making altogether and moved back to Canada, settling in Montreal.

Several years later, Tor was back in Australia on a road trip, living out of a van, working on farms and wanting to reconnect with music production. He came up with the idea of producing a remix concept album that sampled indie hero Sufjan Stevens, and blended the beats with left field and underground Hip Hop. The result was ‘Illinoize’, an album that gained a lot of attention; being featured in hundreds of blogs and magazines, getting tens of thousands of downloads, and leading to a publishing deal with Stevens' record label.

Now based in Vancouver and inspired by the positive feedback he received from ‘Illinoize’, he decided to finally attempt his first proper album, ‘Drum Therapy’. It's an album that he had the title and concept in mind for over 10 years, but had never felt ready to attempt writing it. It combines down-tempo layered melodic beats with the unmistakable sounds of dusty samples; Tor mined everything from 60’s Italian film scores and long lost Turkish psych records to Celtic folk hymns and deep south gospel. He also played many of the non-sampled elements and treated the sounds to give them the warmth and texture he had always wanted the album to have. He is now ready to independently release it and is adapting the album into a live performance that brings the music out of his bedroom and in front of an audience.

If you want to get a hold of me I can be reached at torsmusic@gmail.com