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Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	The Departing Of A Dream Vol. II
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	FV 022CD

"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 Departing smoldered into a dark meditation with hardly a glimpse of light,Departing II offers notes of hope in the form of lifting melodic airs and distant bird calls. Replicating the sound of Davis' mute trumpet through extended guitar and recording techniques, Loren has created another startling and unique album of despair and awakening that can stand next to previous classics In Pittsburgh or Hell's Kitchen Park."

Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	The Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FV 034CD

"'You can't hold on to things,' Loren Connors says. 'With great happiness comes great sorrow.' So brings us to the spectrum that is Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet. Like the previous volumes, Juliet is a tribute of sorts; and here the focus is clearly love, the kind of love willing to face desolation and ultimately death. Recorded in Connors' Brooklyn apartment, his electric guitar emits a pulsing web of blues notes that settle against the utterly intimate human ambience of a creaking chair, tumbling objects, smoke curled absence and his signature canvas of tape hiss. The story of Juliet and her Romeo is told in a lyrical outpouring that Connors has rarely shown in recent years, a style associated which his Rooms (1990) and Evangeline (1999) albums. Though the 20-minute album opener contains a devastating core of mire and foreboding that only Connors can create."

Artist:	CONNORS, LOREN
Title:	As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002
Label:	FAMILY VINEYARD
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	FV 054CD

"As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992-2002 is a 2CD set of Loren Connors' most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions. Inspired by O'Carolan's airs and other Irish airs of the past, these works, recorded from 1992-2002, are melded with Connors' distinctly personal adaptation of the blues. He considers these 43 pieces his complete airs. The collection is culled from 10 albums (eight of which are out-of-print ) and one single, including his groundbreaking Hell's Kitchen Park (Black Label, 1993), Moonyean (Road Cone, 1994), as well as obscure titles like St. Vincent's Newsboy Home (Item Recordings, 1998) and Lullaby (Carbon, 2001) plus four unreleased airs. Nearly the entire critically-heralded Airs (Road Cone, 1999) is remastered and included as well. A timeless collection of the most gorgeous and accessible work from one of America's most iconoclastic artists." Also includes pieces from the Five Points EP (Table of the Elements, 1994), 9th Avenue (Black Label, 1995). Calloden Harvest (Road Cone, 1997), Evangeline (Road Cone, 1998), Standing Upright on a Curve (Sub Rosa, 1998) and Sails (Table of the Elements, 2006). Remastered by Jim O'Rourke."

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