UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
August 11 New York, NY Knitting Factory No More Bush Tour, in trio with Zaika (Marcia Bassett and Tom Carter), plus Charles Plymell, Jack Rose, 50 Foot Women + Axolotl, Valerie Webber, Byron Coley, Gary Panter, and MV+EE

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 July Australia's Chapter Music released a 2xCD of Sing The Children Over / Sand In My Shoe -- the first two studio albums of Connors and vocalist Kath Bloom from the early 1980s. The collection includes detailed liner notes -- from the original LPs and new insight -- plus a rare track from the Pushin' Up Daises 7" and unreleased live material. This is the first of Chapter Music's reissue series for these two artists. Corwood Industries has issued Jandek's Glasgow Sunday 2005 CD, a live performance from October 2005 featuring Connors with Representative from Corwood on vocals and harmonica. The album also includes a piece, recorded the same day, featuring Alan Licht and Heather Leigh Murray without Connors.