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Loren Mazzacane and Susan Langille
Come Night (oodiscs)
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Come Night by the avant-blues guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors with vocalist Suzanne Langille is his first release in national distribution, his first release for oodiscs and the first release that he did not put out on his own. The disc features 47:00 minutes of music

Loren Mazzacane, aka Guitar Roberts and currently Loren Mazzacane Connors, has recorded and released more than two dozen homemade albums during 20 years spent in semi-obscurity. His work is finally garnering wider recognition, thanks to the acclaim of a coterie of the left-field rock performers and a fusillade of albums.

Loren Suzanne Connors, trained as a painter, originally issued his instrumental music- which combined direct, blues-derived emotion and tonality with diffuse formal structures associated with experimental music and "out" jazz- on LP pressings of the minuscule quantity associated with limited-edition lithographs. These original recordings are so rare that he doesn't even have copies of some of them today.

His unique, powerfully affecting records found their way into the hands of younger performers playing on rock's fringes and some them like Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo and Gastr Del Sol's Jim O'Rourke have since become Connors' enthusiastic sponsors and collaborators. Loren's style derived from traditional blues music is totally unique and out of the mainstream of 'contemporary' music from either the downtown minimalist mode or the more academic contemporary music scene. Connors speaking generally about his music says, "It was all based in gospel and blues, but I brought it into an improv, modern, avant-garde format. It was a takeoff on blues but it's something else now. I'm not sure what it is."

Despite his interest in music, Connors-who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as 'my biggest influence in all arts' , attended Southern Connecticut University and the University of Cincinnati as an art major. He recalls, "I'd do paintings , and then I'd sit down with my guitar and look at the painting for half an hour and fiddle with the guitar. I never put down my guitar." Loren Mazzacane Connors' music just happens.... a breeze comes up, we hear it rustle through the trees, feel it on our skin and in our hair for just a moment....the stillness.

Come Night features sixteen different cuts and includes Brian Johnson, percussion and George Cartwright on tenor saxophone and was the first that he did not release himself. It is also the largest ensemble that he has recorded with to date. The above information was extracted from BILLBOARD MAGAZINE (12/97). Come Night was originally issued on the What Next? recordings in 1991.

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