Loren (Mazzacane) Connors
 

I was going to put a post on the "bands you want to hear" thread recommending Loren Connors to the world at large, but he really deserves a thread of his own.

He has recently released a 3 x CD retrospective on Family Vineyard, called Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004, and it is utterly fantastic.

If you like the idea of acoustic avant-blues, or if you like John Fahey, then you really should give Loren Connors a try.

See HERE for info, including an excellent discography.

I'll try and put some links up later.

I liked what i've heard but it's not enough for me to say that i know his music too well.He's on my permanent list of people whose music i need to listen to more.

i have two of his records and i really am left scratching my head about him

Which two?

the daggett years and rooms w/suzanne langille

I can understand you scratching your head over Daggett Years, that is a bit of an impenetrable collection. The other one I haven't heard.

The stuff I'm most familiar with is post-1995.

I have had trouble getting into him as well.
His track on the Harmony Of The Spheres box set was the most impenetrable side for me.

I just bought Keiji Haino & Loren Mazzacane Connors vol 2, this will be like the second time I have heard him.

i have mmmr and a possible dawn, a possible dawn is beautiful and very relaxing drony and goodness

I'm necrophiling this thread, because I'm deep into the 'Night Through' collection that sonicl mentioned, for the first time in a while, and god it is so fucking beautiful. He's not talked about nearly enough here.

Deserves the title of the most harrowingly mournful music I own, but in a way that is ultimately just not at all whiny, but rather just so moving and exiting and fundamentally HUMAN. Pure deconstructed emotion flowing out of the guitar, in ways that never cease to surprise me in its originality and scope. He plays guitar the way Miles Davis played trumpet at his best, and that is to me pretty much the greatest compliment I can give a musician.

I really need more of his stuff than I have now. Any especial recommendations people?

yeah, that too

Me too.

Head on over to the rare and deleted thread then.

Seriously, start with Night Through. It's a collection of singles and other 7", and some other unreleased stuff, and is just a killer introduction to him. It's how I got there. Very accessible compared to some of his stuff.

sonicl uploaded a few things for me, all of which were awesome, and all of which have now gone to the mp3 graveyard. I keep meaning to buy some actual records of his, but not doing so.

More importantly, has anyone spoken to Mr L ever? If you do so, please send him my regards.

Not me. I would like to know how he is. I had his number but lost it when my mobile bought the farm.

i only have mmmr and the harmony of the spheres compilation, but i'm not that keen on the lmc stuff that's on there.

Not my thing.

i completely agree w/ yr assessment. i've been a big fan ever since Road Cone started putting out some stuff in the early 90s.

i can wholeheartedly recommend these:

hells kitchen park
crucible
9th avenue

they are utterly beautiful and heart rending.

i talked w/ him a bit two Januarys ago. i was in NYC seeing Neurosis and as luck would have it, he was playing the next night. i'd not seen him since '93 or so, and his Parkinson's has certainly advanced. he's adapted his playing style accordingly. it was a great show.

at Suzanne's request, i put a few shots from that show on his Myspace page.