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Henry Torgue

40 releases  ·  19 collaborators  ·  5 labels

Real name
Henri Torgue
Date active
1976 – 2006
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Henri Torgue is a classically trained concert pianist based in Grenoble, France.
In the 1970's, under the name Henry Skoff-Torgue, he recorded some instrumental albums based around the organ in a contemporary new-music setting. His debut LP "Souvenirs Des Cités Crépusculaires" from 1976 was a reflective and restrained album with a vaguely Terry Riley feel. It would seem that he wasn't satisfied with it however, and completely re-recorded the album three years later, along with "Compartiment Fuchsia" - both albums featuring organ and synthesizer mixing classical and prog elements into a unique new style.
After the founding of the Emile Dubois Group in 1979, he reverted to using Henry Torgue or just his surname Torgue co-billing his choreographer Serge Houppin, and developed a completely different musical language again, composing and performing music for Jean-Claude Gallotta’s dance, film and video creations, and other luminaries of dance and theatre: Carolyn Carlson and Philippe Genty.

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