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Suzanne Langille

Suzanne Langille and Loren Connors celebrate their October birthdays — and the forth-coming release of the Suzanne Langille Songbook 2xCD (Family Vineyard / Feeding Tube) with a night of friends and collaborators. including Alan Licht, Angela Jaeger, Alessandra Novaga, Andrew Burnes, Bill Nace, Byron Coley, Daniel Carter, David Daniell, John Kolodij, Jane Hesser, Laura Ortman, Lin Culbertson, Neel Murgai, Ras Moshe Burnett, Tom Carter, Tom Surgal, Gabriel Martinez, Ronnie Yates, and William Hooker.

Friday Oct. 4 event at Artists Space, NYC will also include a tribute to guitarist Dean Roberts, who had planned to travel from Lisbon to be part of this event but recently passed away. Performance produced by Blank Forms.

In physical record stores now...

Loren Connors’ Beautiful Dreamer 10-inch, a two-part suite dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky... and...

Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai’s Come When The Raven Calls LP — blood rich, blues testimonies communicated from vocals, overtone singing and daf.

Both were released digitally in June as we looked for hope and strength during the lockdown.  Now both records are making the way to your favorite shop globally via Secretly Distribution. Get your mask on and go see your record shop clerk -- they miss you!

It's been a long time -- a decade -- since the debut by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai, Wild & Foolish Heart. That LP came out of nowhere, and knocked a lot of people, well, on their heart. Flipped their head around, too. Since then we've waited, and waited... and now, Come When The Raven Calls is ready to take flight. The LP is Suzanne and Neel's song cycle of loss and empowerment -- a fusion of American spiritual blues and trance-like percussion with multi-note vocal overtones. Get ready to be knocked over again (and again). 

This nine-song album comes out during a time of uncertainty, so we are taking a few approaches to distribution. It will be available for direct mailorder from us to you starting June 5, here at F-V.com and at Bandcamp; the same day you can stream it on your platform of choice. We are also offering a limited time LP Bundle -- get discount when you buy this LP with the new Loren Connors' Beautiful Dreamer 10" -- go here for that offer.

American and international record stores can expect to begin selling the LP on August 21. 

Some say "it's 'bout damn time..." but we just smile.

Loren Connors graces the cover of The Wire for a fantastic, indepth feature by Kurt Gottschalk that is teased as: "The pioneering free blues guitarist has more than six strongs to his bow, as demonstrated by his debut release as a pianist." Suzanne Langille makes a co-staring role as Gottschalk examines Loren's recent bout of Family Vineyard releases. 

That debut release is, of course, The Red Painting 7-inch (just a few more copies of it left...).

It's been awhile since Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille released anything as a duo -- sure, there was the Haunted House band album from a few years ago, but, that's a totally different dynamic. Now, thankfully, the Belgium label Tanuki just issued the "Strong & Foolish Heart" b/w "Blue Ghost Blues" 7-inch single. It was recorded live at the 2013 Counterflows Festival in Glasgow, Scotland and sounds fantastic. Loren's contemporary abstraction style gives a different feel to these familiar songs as Suzanne's always powerful, soulful bellow anchors each. But we've never heard a version of "Blue Ghost Blues" (aka Lonnie Johnson's "Haunted House" from 1960) like this. Loren's hair-raising replication of fluttering bat wings, as heard first on In Pittsburgh (1989), is transformed here into a slab of scree and feedback. Just 250 copies with three cover variations -- get at it.

Wish we could have made it: return of Haunted House (Loren Connors, Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes and Neel Murgai) last night in lower Manhattan at Sugarcube as part of Northern Spy's five-year anniversary celebration. Those lucky to attend reported "Frankie and Johnny" and "Blue Ghost Blues" were, as expected, monstrous live. Photo by Erstwhile Records' Jon Abbey.

The ultimate Loren Connors overview has been written and compiled by the fine gents at The Out Door column over at Pitchfork. It is epic, beautiful and covers Loren's four decades as an artist and musician. It's got it all, from a summary of his many albums -- including many on FV -- and interviews with Suzanne Langille, Darin Gray, Alan Licht, Jim O'Rourke, some guy named Jandek and few others. Please, spend some time with this one. 

Our pals over at Northern Spy in Brooklyn have released Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille's I Wish I Didn't Dream -- their first proper duo album in 14 years. It's 14 new studio tracks inspired by the Brooklyn outsider, impressionistic artist M P Landis. The package comes in a lovely digipak with a 20 page tip-in art book featuring all 14 M P Landis paintings along with lyrics by Suzanne. All tracks were improvised live during a four hour session -- a rare feat as most Loren's albums are cut on stage or at home.