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At The Top Of The Stairs

by Loren Connors & Alan Licht

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    Last copies of artist edition sold during the Jan 28, 2023 performance at Blank Forms, Brooklyn, NY. 54 copies of the LP with limited edition jackets -- the stair image printed on ivory stock and hand pasted onto the front; hand-numbered on the back with an insert detailing the Connors-Licht discography.

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Acclaimed guitar duo Loren Connors and Alan Licht celebrate their 30-year collaboration in 2023 with the release of their eighth album — At The Top Of The Stairs —and a series of performances. The duo will hold a two-night residence at Cafe OTO in London on May 5 and 6.

Across the decades, their improvisations became increasingly abstract and atonal while maintaining complex, ethereal arrangements. The harmonious blend of Licht's meticulously crafted feedback and harmonic patterns with Connors' ghostly blue tones remains the core sound of this partnership.

At the Top Of The Stairs was recorded live in 2018. Across two side-long pieces, the duo ascends slowly, through layers of atmospheric tension punctuated by thunderous waves of Connors’ effects.

For fifty years, Connors’s adaptation of acoustic Delta blues has transmuted into miniature grayscale compositions and howling riffs. His collaborators include Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, and Kim Gordon. Connors’ second book of his paintings Night of Rain (Recital) was released last year.

Rock/experimental musician Alan Licht was a member of the bands Love Child, Run On, and Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, and has released a range of acclaimed rock and experimental albums. He is an author with books published by Rizzoli, W.W. Norton, Faber & Faber, and Blank Forms.

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released April 29, 2023

Loren Connors, Alan Licht electric guitar

Recorded by Jonas Blank, live mix by Doug Graham
at Union Pool, Brooklyn, November 2018

Audio masters by Jim O’Rourke
Vinyl cut by Carl Saff

Photograph by Jody Davis

Thanks to Steve Gunn and Michael Slaboch

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Loren Connors Brooklyn, New York

Loren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music embraces the aesthetics of blues, Irish airs, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms. Connors, who names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as his most important influence, also creates evocative print work that arise from the aesthetics of his music. ... more

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