loren connors “moonyean” long playing record

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alan licht / loren connors “into the night sky” compact disc

• map of dusk (24:13)
  
• into the night sky (24:08)

loren connors “the curse of midnight mary” compact disc

• chant 1 (2:28)
  
• chant 2 (5:41)
  
• chant 3 (3:39)
  
• chant 4 (2:35)
  
• chant 5 (7:12)
  
• chant 6 (2:13)
  
• chant 7 (2:31)
  
• chant 8 (2:24)
  
• chant 9 (2:52)

family vineyard press release...

loren connors the curse of midnight mary fv64 cd in 1981 guitarist loren connors took his tape recorder to the graveyard where the legendary midnight mary's grave lies in new haven, conn. the curse is: anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight will die the next day. but connors, like a young fool, taped in that place, making this album that was lost and forgotten until uncovered in 2008. recorded between connors’ eight volume unaccompanied acoustic guitar improvisations lp series and the folk albums he would make with tom hanford and kath bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct forms. connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the mississippi delta blues on his acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and other world spirituals. it’s an album for fans of connors’ solo avant work and colloaborations with jim o’rourke or jandek; and will enthrall devotees of early the 20th century blues of blind willie johnson and charlie patton. a rare and essential peak into the still mysterious early years of this american guitar master. recorded march 1981, at the evergreen cemetery in new haven, connecticut.

loren connors / jim o’rourke “two nice catholic boys” compact disc

• maybe paris (22:05)
  
• or possibly koln (14:16)
  
• most definitely not koln (10:41)

haunted house “blue ghost blues” long playing record

• millie's not afraid (9:43)
  
• blue ghost blues (11:06)
  
  
• grip my hand (3:53)
  
• thomas paine (11:03)
  
• hard roads (3:08)

northern spy press release...

artist: haunted house title: blue ghost blues catalog number: ns 012 format: lp street date: september 13th, 2011 the blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist andrew burnes left new york for georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of haunted house. in the time since, a new generation — sometimes referred to as freak folk or new weird america and spearheaded by tom carter*, jack rose and ben chasny — has followed in the footsteps of loren connors, john fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. after the demise of haunted house, connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife — the enigmatic singer suzanne langille — to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist neel murgai was available, and the brooklyn’s issue project room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. the band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 erstwhile release up in flames. looking back, maybe it isn’t that the blues has grown up. maybe it has reverted to its youth. after all, john lee hooker, son house and mississippi fred mcdowell weren’t beholden to any 12-bar fixity. nor was lonnie johnson, whose song “haunted house” gave the band its name. they all played it how they felt it. it wasn’t until the 1960s and the british blues revival (its champion, ironically perhaps, being connors’ beloved eric clapton) that the blues was codified into its current formula. haunted house is an unusual band. with indian hand percussion and no bass, they don’t look like a blues band — and maybe they’re not. but they play it how they feel it. what more could you ask for? * check carter and marc orleans’ northern spy release eleven twenty-nine. featured artists: loren connors: guitar andrew burnes: guitar suzanne langille: vocals neel murgai: daf kurt gottschalk: producer m p landis: artwork

haunted house “blue ghost blues” compact disc

• millie's not afraid (9:57)
  
• blue ghost blues (12:29)
  
• grip my hand (3:42)
  
• thomas paine (9:13)
  
• hard roads (3:06)

northern spy press release...

artist: haunted house title: blue ghost blues catalog number: ns 012 format: cd street date: september 13th, 2011 the blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist andrew burnes left new york for georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of haunted house. in the time since, a new generation — sometimes referred to as freak folk or new weird america and spearheaded by tom carter*, jack rose and ben chasny — has followed in the footsteps of loren connors, john fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. after the demise of haunted house, connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife — the enigmatic singer suzanne langille — to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist neel murgai was available, and the brooklyn’s issue project room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. the band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 erstwhile release up in flames. looking back, maybe it isn’t that the blues has grown up. maybe it has reverted to its youth. after all, john lee hooker, son house and mississippi fred mcdowell weren’t beholden to any 12-bar fixity. nor was lonnie johnson, whose song “haunted house” gave the band its name. they all played it how they felt it. it wasn’t until the 1960s and the british blues revival (its champion, ironically perhaps, being connors’ beloved eric clapton) that the blues was codified into its current formula. haunted house is an unusual band. with indian hand percussion and no bass, they don’t look like a blues band — and maybe they’re not. but they play it how they feel it. what more could you ask for? * check carter and marc orleans’ northern spy release eleven twenty-nine. featured artists: loren connors: guitar andrew burnes: guitar suzanne langille: vocals neel murgai: daf kurt gottschalk: producer m p landis: artwork