UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan 23 Death by Audio, Brooklyn, NY - solo, plus Zaimph with Jenny Graf, Media Dreams, Jorge Martins & Margarida Garcia, Mother Earth
Feb 24 Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY - duo with Alan Licht, opening reading by Lee Ranaldo
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.
Two albums are upcoming, both dug from the archives: The Lost Mariner LP, debut collaboration between Connors and the confounding electric bassist Darin Gray issued on CD in 1999. This LP reissue restores the cover art and includes the bonus live At The Old Factory 7-inch. Out on January 26, 2010. The Into the Night Sky CD is two epic pieces -- one from 1996, the other 2006 -- recorded live in concert with guitarist Alan Licht. BOth clearly show far the duo's desolate sound world grew over a decade of collaboration while the core of layered guitar complexities and alien melodies remain.
