Loren Mazzacane Connors

Infobox musical artist
Name = Loren Connors


Img_capt = Connors, as depicted on the cover of "The Departng of a Dream" (2002)
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Loren Connors
Alias = Guitar Roberts, Loren Mattei, Loren MazzaCane
Born = Birth date and age|1949|10|21|mf=y
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Origin = New Haven, Connecticut
Instrument = electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, piano
Genre = Blues, Outsider music, Folk
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Years_active = 1978—present
Label = Family Vineyard, Road Cone, Table of the Elements
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URL = [http://fvrec.com/lorenconnors Loren Connors web site]
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Loren MazzaCane Connors (born October 21, 1949) is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. He is a prolific collaborator who has worked with artists including Kath Bloom, Jandek, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Smog and John Fahey.

Best known as a composer and improviser on acoustic and electric guitar, Connors has released over fifty albums, on commercial record labels such as Table of the Elements and Father Yod as well as on his own St. Joan, Black Label and Daggett self publishing imprints. They include spare solo and duo blues, ensemble experimental jazz, noise, drones, and bleak folk music. From 1981-1984, Connors released six limited edition albums with singer-guitarist Kath Bloom, including one as a trio with his 70s collaborator Tom Hanford. Since 1985 he has often performed and recorded with his wife Suzanne Langille. In the late 1990s he led the blues-rock group Haunted House with Langille, Andrew Burnes (of the band San Agustin), and Neel Murgai.

Connors was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1992.

recorded highlights

* "Hanford Bloom Mazzacane" (Daggett 1981) with Tom Hanford, Kath Bloom
* "In Pittsburgh" (St. Joan 1989; Dexter's Cigar 1996) with Suzanne Langille
* "Rooms" (St. Joan 1990) with Suzanne Langille
* "Hell's Kitchen Park" (Black Label 1993)
* "Evangeline" (Road Cone 1998)
* "Hoffman Estates" (Drag City 1998), with Alan Licht
* "In Bern" (Hat Hut 1997), with Jim O'Rourke
* "Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 1-9 1979-1980" (Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod 1999)
* "Arbovitae" (Hapna 2003), with David Grubbs
* "Night Through: Singles and collected works 1976-2004" (Family Vinyard 2006)
* "Sails" (Table of the Elements 2006), with John Fahey

External links

* [http://www.fvrec.com/lorenconnors/ Loren Connors official website]