UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
May 27 Brooklyn, NY Issue Project Room; also on bill, Ashley Paul & Eli Kezler.
June 2 Montreal, Canada Suoni per Il Popolo Festival
June 7 New York, NY Rehab

photo by mark mahaney

Release & Performance Announcements

Guitarist Loren Connors was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1949. Best known as a composer and improviser, Connors has issued over 50 guitar records on his own imprints (Daggett, St. Joan, Black Label) since the late 1970s and over two dozen on other labels across the globe. He has recorded under the names Guitar Roberts, Loren Mattei, Loren MazzaCane Connors and other variations. Connors' singular adpation of the blues is a distinct personal vision combining the Delta bottleneck sound and the ancestral blues voice (appearing as distortion, baying hounds or multi-tracked guitar), with hauntingly unexpected sounds. Outside of Connors' three decades of solo work, he has collaborated with Suzanne Langille, Jim O'Rourke, Darin Gray, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Keiji Haino, San Agustin, Jandek and many others, as well as leading the group Haunted House. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

In early May Corwood Industries released a 2xDVD of Jandek's Manhattan Tuesday, a live performance from September 2005 featuring Connors with Representative from Corwood, Matt Heyner, and Chris Corsano; As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 , a 2xCD set of Connors' most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions culled from 10 albums (eight of which are out of print) and one single, is now out. It features Suzanne Langille on four pieces. Also available is Thin Air a limited CDR with poet Steve Dalachinksy; and a tribute album called The Art of Loren Connors.