State Laughter

I've always loved Loren Conners guitar playing. Framed with New Weird America, 90's Siltbreeze, Jeweled Antler....or any other labels/collectives that expanded the canon of folk into other dimensions, Conners may not seem as important. However when the gauze unravels back to his earliest recordings of the late 70's, you see how massively influential he was on the shape of guitar to come. He wasn't alone as Fahey had been hacking away at how a guitar should be played for over a decade before and Keiji Haino would soon pick it up and destroy it, but he really carved out a unique apparition foretelling bands like Grouper and the above movements. Joined with Kath Bloom here, Connors come's a little more straightforward. It's gut wrenching shit that reminds me shows i shared in an abandoned train tunnel with friends in the early 2000's....no amplification, only lit by fire. It's ok to cry and it's ok to cry to this. Thank you Chapter Music! (PS more to come from Chapter on the reissue front apparently).