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Loren Connors - Sails
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Year :: 2006
Label :: Table of The Elements
Cat No :: TOE89
Genre :: Avantgarde
Tracks :: 17
Size :: 102,9 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 18/02/2006
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To accompany guitarist Loren Connors (nee Mazzacane)
is to discover a strange and forgotten
America, then venture irreversibly beyond. Connors is
frequently pegged as an avant bluesman,
and the blues are never far from the surface of his
art -- but what a shimmering surface it is! The
brevity and lyricism of his improvisations bear the
mark of haiku; the floating, expressionist tones
reflect the influence of Mark Rothko; and as he
conjures keening Celtic wails, Connors offers himself
as medium to the ghosts of New York City Past.
With "Sails", Connors enters the third decade of such
intimate explorations. In the course of these
two discs, we pass through saturated phrasings,
slowly undulating drones, doldrumic introspection
and squalls of white noise. The penultimate highlight
is a duet with Connors' aesthetic compadre, the
late, great John Fahey. It's an intuitive and
seemingly predestined meeting of two enlightened
fellow-travelers: wily Fahey as the Dr. Livingstone
of raw Americana to Connors' indefatigable Stanley.
For his own part, Connors can evoke more clarity and
purity in a short cluster of notes than most of
his shred-happy contemporaries can muster in a
lifetime -- and with Fahey's passing, he may be
justifiably considered this country's greatest living
guitarist.
Ultimately, Loren Connors path, while not for the
timid, is one of unspeakable treasure: a journey to
the heart of brightness; a quest to penetrate a Terra
Incognita of the soul.
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CD1
[01] Pretty as Ever [01:45]
[02] Pretty as Ever [03:15]
[03] Pretty as Ever [02:04]
[04] Pretty as Ever [01:24]
[05] Pretty as Ever [01:28]
[06] Pretty as Ever [01:07]
[07] Pretty as Ever [01:34]
[08] Pretty as Ever [01:25]
[09] Here Ill Whisper it to You [02:57]
[10] Trinity [01:38]
[11] Trinity [04:39]
[12] Trinity [02:09]
[13] Portrait of A Fool [02:30]
[14] Portrait of A Fool [05:19]
[15] In the Night [05:00]
CD2
[01] Dark is the Night, Cold is the Ground [06:50]
(with John Fahey)
[02] Sails [36:07]
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