Despite the phenomenal amount of material that the composer and guitarist Loren Connors has released over the years (too much surely for anyone apart from the most committed completist to have kept track of) there remains something ghost-like about him. His public performances are relatively rare these days, which is perhaps unsurprising given the fact he has been suffering from Parkinsons disease for some time. The contribution that this condition has in fact made to his guitar playing is a moot point, though it is perhaps too easy to draw parallels between the undoubted fragility of his playing and his weakened state. But while his condition may be degenerating (slowly, thankfully), his critical stock continues to increase. He has in fact been high on the list of people that Cafe Oto have been trying to book to play at the venue ever since it opened – and so persuasive were they that he made the journey across the Atlantic solely for this inevitably sold-out show. Read the rest of this review over at The Liminal.
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