Thor Harris


Thor Harris is an artist, sculptor, musician, painter, carpenter and handyman. He was the percussionist for Swans. He has performed with Shearwater, a band from Austin, Texas, Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, Lisa Germano, Yonatan Gat, Gretchen Phillips, Devendra Banhart, Rebecca Cannon, Swans, Xiu Xiu, Flock of Dimes & Amanda Palmer, Whalesong,and the Grand Theft Orchestra. He has recorded at least six instrumental albums with the Austin producer Rob Halverson. He also contributed to Ben Frost's 2014 album, Aurora. In February 2017, and he has enjoyed touring with Thor and Friends since 2015.
Harris posted a video to his Twitter account titled "How To Punch A Nazi" as a response to the rise of Richard Spencer, and on February 8, 2017, Twitter briefly suspended Harris's account for the video. On August 10, 2017, Harris announced his candidacy for governor of Texas on Twitter. Thor Harris also builds custom musical instruments.

Discography

With Rob Halverson

Note: Harris's six 2019 releases on Joyful Noise Recordings were issued both as six individual digital albums and as one limited-edition set of six colored-vinyl records in a wooden box.