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Loren Mazzacane Connors

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Loren Mazzacane Connors on 8 May 2023. Loren Mazzacane Connors has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 83 episodes and was first played on 7 June 2014.

Loren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music - which embraces the aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms - has been recorded on Family Vineyard, Northern Spy, Drag City, Table of the Elements, Recital, Road Cone and other labels.

Connors, who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko his most important influence, has performed with Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Jandek, and Kim Gordon. Suzanne Langille has often appeared on Connors' recordings as vocalist, lyricist and arranger. Connors also on occasion performs with an avant-blues band called Haunted House, together with Langille, guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai.

In July 1979, Cadence Magazine noted that Connors, who had recently emerged in the scene, was "similar to others in the Advanced Guard of improvising guitarists in that he is trying to extend the boundaries of sound and pitch of acoustic guitar, but he is unique in the utilization of Blues in his work, one could almost say this is Avant Garde Blues. He is swimming in new waters and beginning to make his own environment."

In recent years, Connors has focused mostly on live recordings of extended blues abstractions, with occasional performances in a more avant blues-rock vein from time to time through the Haunted House band and collaborations with other artists.

http://www.lorenconnors.net

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Loren Mazzacane Connors

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Loren Mazzacane Connors on 8 May 2023. Loren Mazzacane Connors has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 83 episodes and was first played on 7 June 2014.

Loren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music - which embraces the aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms - has been recorded on Family Vineyard, Northern Spy, Drag City, Table of the Elements, Recital, Road Cone and other labels.

Connors, who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko his most important influence, has performed with Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Jandek, and Kim Gordon. Suzanne Langille has often appeared on Connors' recordings as vocalist, lyricist and arranger. Connors also on occasion performs with an avant-blues band called Haunted House, together with Langille, guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai.

In July 1979, Cadence Magazine noted that Connors, who had recently emerged in the scene, was "similar to others in the Advanced Guard of improvising guitarists in that he is trying to extend the boundaries of sound and pitch of acoustic guitar, but he is unique in the utilization of Blues in his work, one could almost say this is Avant Garde Blues. He is swimming in new waters and beginning to make his own environment."

In recent years, Connors has focused mostly on live recordings of extended blues abstractions, with occasional performances in a more avant blues-rock vein from time to time through the Haunted House band and collaborations with other artists.

http://www.lorenconnors.net

Original source Last.fm

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