A1 Smoke Pt. 1
A2 Smoke Pt. 2
A3 Smoke Pt. 3
A4 Smoke Pt. 4
A5 Smoke Pt. 5
A6 Smoke Pt. 6
A7 Smoke Pt. 7
B1 Mirrors Pt.1
B2 Mirrors Pt.2
B3 Mirrors Pt.3
B4 Mirrors Pt.4
B5 Mirrors Pt.5
Premier album d'une série conçue en hommage à John Fahey, entièrement élaboré par voie de mails avec Loren Mazzacane Connors à la guitare et Christina Carter au piano... superbe...
The first in a proposed series of collaborations in memory of John Fahey, this was a joint effort 'by mail' between the great Loren Mazzacane Connors and Christina Carter of Charalambides. The two apparently sent 4-track cassettes back and forth building tracks organically by layering their ideas, and the results are deeply moving and utterly entrancing. We're all paid up members of the Loren Connors fan club here, and his 'Sails' album from earlier this year totally destroyed us, so I'm hardly the hardest of reviewers when it comes to his material, but this LP is a devastating work. Comprised of Connors' deep and detailed guitar playing and piano parts from Carter it ends up sounding as meditative and involving as William Basinski's 'Melancholia' or 'Movements in Chrome Primative' and there is something similarly spiritual and moving about the arrangements. The tracks are a perfect testament to the memory of John Fahey, without ever seeming like the musicians are trying to simulate the great man's style. Loren Connors has proved to be one of the most consistently interesting guitarists of our generation, and while he might not attract the accolades of so many others, he is for our money an essential part of avant garde music history. So totally beautiful.
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