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Album Notes: Solo performer: Loren MazzaCane Connors.
Some poets use ink and paper. Loren MazzaCane Connors requires neither. The guitarist is able to express the finest of emotions by tracing just a few well-chosen words into the air. Connors speaks through his instrument, eloquently offering up his most private pains and joys in a delicate dialect uniquely derived from Delta blues. Communicating with such sensitive inflections as a gentle string-bend, a pensive fermata, or an unresolved musical question, Connors traverses the emotional breaches that few words can ford.
AIRS is a suite in 19 untitled parts, concluding with a suitably poignant tribute in song to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who died a tragic storm-swept death. It's an apt gesture, as each of Connors' instrumental airs conveys the same understated quality of wet-eyed poetic sorrow found within such Shelley verses as "Mutability," "To Night," and "A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love." Though Connor prefers the whisper to the wail, AIRS is a tremendously moving and passionate album.
Album Reviews: Alternative Press (4/00, p.90) - 4 out of 5 - "...AIRS may be the finest display of Connors' 'softer' side; this is a beautifully textured series of guitar improvisations that rivals guitarists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho in its awe-inspiring greatness....may be [his] highest achievement to date."
The Wire (1/00, p.94) - "...a good place as any to begin [exploring Connors']...massive discography....a series of short precisely played solos which occasionally rattle the speakers when [he] hits the right note....his highly personalized guitar style breathes rather than soars..."
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22.01.2003
23.03.2004
