We'd been reading Alan Licht's views and conversations for what seems like forever, or at least, the early 1990s. Now 500-plus pages worth are collected in the weighty Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 (Blank Forms). The book features interviews with Matthew Barney, Glenn Branca, Tony Conrad, Milford Graves, Adris Hoyos, Ken Jacobs, Jutta Koether, Lou Reed, Kelly Reichardt, Rudy Wurlitzer, and many others...
Surprise! A new Loren Connors solo album is blowin' in this week.... Domain Of The Wind is a 22-minute solo electric guitar suite from Loren Connors out Friday, May 7. The music here, like Mark Mahaney’s portrait of Connors adorning the cover, is deeply human and a reflection of life and the unknown future. Edition of 300 copies on black 10-inch vinyl -- only available directly from Family Vineyard.
Our dear Tashi Dorji and Tyler Damon reunited with Dave Rempis as the brawlin' n' mighty Kuzu. Their third and latest LP -- The Glass Delusion -- is out on Astral Spirits. You need it.
"The trio build from tiny gestures to a stampeding charge, then subside to a simmering stew of tart tones before breaking into an unmetered sledgehammer duel," says Bill Meyer.
Photo by Julia Dratel.
Leone is the first meeting of electric guitarists Loren Connors and Oren Ambarchi. This album, like its title, is a sum of parts: solo performances by Connors and Ambarchi bookend a duo. Features floral illustrations by Marissa Huber.
LP and digital out Friday, January 29.
Loren Connors will perform solo this Sunday, October 25 at 4-6 pm (Eastern) as part of Elysium Furnace Works' 2020 season at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. Anyone in the world can watch the live performance.
Tickets for the live stream are $15 and may be purchased here or at Howland Cultural Center.