NEW WEBSITE
Soon, lorenconnors.net will be launched

UPCOMING EVENTS
April 5 Solo and duo with Suzanne Langille at Counterflows Festival, Glasgow, Scotland. Connors and Langille will perform both solo and together. Despite their long collaboration, this will actually be their first performance together in Europe.
April 20 Duo with Keiji Haino for Blues for Smoke series at Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC; plus Matana Roberts. May 16-19 Haunted House at Victoriaville. Loren Connors, electric guitar; Suzanne Langille, vocals; Andrew Burnes, electric guitar; Neel Murgai, Persian daf.

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.

Recent release

I Wish I Didn't Dream is the first proper duo album between Loren and vocalist Suzanne Langille in 14 years. It's 14 new studio tracks inspired by the Brooklyn outsider, impressionistic artist M P Landis. The package comes in a lovely digipak with a 20 page tip-in art book featuring all fourteen M P Landis paintings along with lyrics by Suzanne. All tracks were improvised live during a four hour session.