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Loren Connors - The Blue Hour (Live) '2024

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The Blue Hour (Live)
ArtistLoren Connors Related artists
Album name The Blue Hour (Live)
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Date 2024
GenreAmbient,Experimental
Play time 31 min
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media CD
Size 94; 245 MB
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Recorded at Café OTO last year, 'The Blue Hour' is a rare, noir-tinged
performance, with Loren Connors playing piano (!) and guitar, and Alan Licht
responding with guitar and effects. 

To commemorate the release of 'At the Top of the Stairs', Connors and Licht's
grand reunion after almost a decade not playing together, they arranged to
appear at OTO for two nights. On the second night, Connors surprised the
audience- the first time he's ever played piano in one of the duo's
collaborative sets, and among only a few times he's been spotted playing the
instrument live at all.

Unlike the duo's more drone-heavy material, 'The Blue Hour' is closer to the
music they played when they first started jamming together, over 30 years ago.
Connors' piano is a revelation, as expressive as his guitar playing and keenly
matched by Licht's cautious, slow notes and elongated feedback wails. When
Connors switches to guitar, and Licht sculpts his into an organ-style hum;
Connors' trembling notes are silhouetted against Licht's drones and given a
level of high drama that's unexpected to say the least.

On the flip, Connors poises in front of the piano again, playing slow, solemn,
Satie-like phrases alongside Licht's gentle strums. It's luscious, soft-hued
material that shows the ease at which Licht and Connors are able to shift the
mood - just before it comes to a close, day turns to night again as tempered
feedback wisps around ominous string slams and circumspect riffs.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Loren Connors, Alan Licht - Part I (18:24) 
1.02 - Loren Connors, Alan Licht - Part II (12:39)

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