Airs, by Loren Connors

Airs

by Loren Connors

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anightin I don't have words for this album, what can I say, it takes you home.

Thank you Loren!

Lars Gotrich Loren Connors is one of my favorite guitarists of all time, right up there with Jack Rose, Sonny Sharrock and The Cramps' Poison Ivy. Airs, first released in 1999, was my introduction to his spectral style — quiet, patient guitar poems recorded to cassette tape. Nighttime drift music. If you're curious, this is a great place to start. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/vikings-choice-2022-reissues-renewals-of-spirit/ Favorite track: Airs 4.

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	1.	Airs 1 01:41
	2.	Airs 2 01:52
	3.	Airs 3 02:10
	4.	Airs 4 02:17
	5.	Airs 5 01:59
	6.	Airs 6 03:23
	7.	Airs 7 02:05
	8.	Airs 8 01:42
	9.	Airs (The Lost Track) 01:19
	10.	Airs 9 01:59
	11.	Airs 10 01:47
	12.	Airs 11 02:03
	13.	Airs 12 03:23
	14.	Airs 13 01:49
	15.	Airs 17 02:24
	16.	Airs 18 01:19
	17.	The Death of Shelley 01:53

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Over the 23 years since Loren Connors’ Airs was first published, it has drawn a thick circle of fans. Gently recorded to cassette tape in 1999, (with wonderfully subtle multi-tracking), Airs is comprised of a series of brief electronic guitar poems. Intimately composed with the patience and purposeful hesitation we have reverently come to expect from Connors. Lyrical melodies recur in different forms throughout the LP, as shifting figures in a dream. Shadowy and sunken, the tone evokes an overcast seascape. The album feels singular; woven along as one flowing piece.

Airs is perhaps the most approachable and beautiful in all of Connors’ catalog, seducing strangers and familiars just the same. Forlorn wonderment; a human quality that makes this such an enchanting record. It is the humble simplicity and the directness of the guitar inflection that conveys such truth. The stark grace of Connors’ playing resonates here for all to embrace.

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released September 16, 2022

New transfer of the original cassette
Includes an unreleased ‘lost’ track, discovered during re-transfer
Remastered for vinyl by Taylor Dupree at 12k Mastering

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