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Loren Connors

Loren Connors’ music speaks of a loneliness that’s almost devastating in its purity. At its best, Connors’ music works at a cellular level, as though the fundamental nature of the piece is implicit in the very first note played: a flower just ready to bloom. But while Connors’ music often comes across as gentle and fragile, sometimes edging close to the vacuum of silence, there is great confidence and courage at its heart.

Loren Connors’ music speaks of a loneliness that’s almost devastating in its purity. At its best, Connors’ music works at a cellular level, as though the fundamental nature of the piece is implicit in the very first note played: a flower just ready to bloom. But while Connors’ music often comes across as gentle and fragile, sometimes edging close to the vacuum of silence, there is great confidence and courage at its heart.

The Moon Last Night
The Moon Last Night perfectly captures the complex and contemporary guitar style of Loren Connors - totally desolate yet wound in echoy, rich black clouds that weep of Mississippi ghost blues and chiming strings. This two part suite combines the artist's love of choral music, Giacinto Scelsi and the naked Venusian guitar style he evangelized across a string of private press LPs in the late 1980s. Conjured solely from a Fender six-string and reverb effects, solitary notes swirl and loft gently fr…
The Departing Of A Dream Vol. II
Avant guitar legend Loren Connors (aka Loren MazzaCane Connors) returns with the sequel to 2002's critically acclaimed The Departing of a Dream. The NYC blues guitarist, who has been recording and releasing albums since 1978, extends the theme (which was a loose tribute to Miles Davis' 'He Loved Him Madly') into a fragile and floating eight-part piece of acoustic/electric/ and bass guitar mixed with field recordings and the unsettling ménage of found sounds and ambient hiss. Whereas the first De…
As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002
As roses bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 is Loren Connors' Assembly of his most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions. Inspired by O'Carolan's airs and other Irish airs of the pAst, these works, recorded during a ten year period, are melded with the distinctly personal and iconoclAst adaptation of Connors' blues. These 43 pieces are Connors' complete airs, culled from 10 albums (eight of which are out of print) and one single, including his groundbreaking Hell's Kitchen Park (Black …
Night through. Singles and collected works, 1976-2004
Reissue. Essential 3xCD collection of Singles by New York City guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America's most unique and challenging voices. Night through.spans four decades of Connors' recordings from the earliest acoustic session and first solo 7 - Ribbon o' Blues on St. Joan - to rare Singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, Union Pole, and others, to his late 90s band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. Overall, three and h…
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