UPCOMING EVENTS
July 11 Brooklyn, NY - Issue Project Room - as Haunted House band with Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes & Neel Murgai
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.
Three massive ressiues out now: The Hell's Kitchen Park LP is a 180 gram vinyl reissue of Loren's most celebrated electric albums. A suite of stark guitar with vocalist Suzanne Langille. Originally relased in 1993 on Loren's Black Label. The Lost Mariner LP, is the 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. Also, there is a surprise second edition of the 1999 In Bern live duo CD with guitarist Jim O'Rourke issued as Are You Going To Stop...In Bern? on Hat Hut.
