At The Top Of The Stairs
Loren Connors & Alan Licht celebrate 30 years of unique collaboration with their 8th album, a richly textured recording of a 2018 show in Brooklyn, faithfully mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
Reissued in advance of their two night residency in May, 2023 at London’s Cafe Oto, ‘At The Top Of The Stairs’ taps into a spenllbinding spectral dialogue between Licht’s feedback sculptures and Connors’ eternally haunting blues abstractions. Working together since a formative in-store at Other Music in 1994, the pair have developed a complex, mutual electric guitar language inspired by the blues as much as Steve Reich’s ‘70s minimalism, Miles Davis’ electric jazz-blues fusion, and the freedoms of early ‘80s no wave - or in other words, a continuation of classic New York experimental music and moods.
As the title implies, there’s something looming above the music. Be it the spirits of their forebears or the black dog, we’re not sure, but either way their music makes for a hauntingly beautiful half hour of ghostly inference that no doubt best comes alive at night to colour your noirest fantasies.
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Loren Connors & Alan Licht celebrate 30 years of unique collaboration with their 8th album, a richly textured recording of a 2018 show in Brooklyn, faithfully mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
Reissued in advance of their two night residency in May, 2023 at London’s Cafe Oto, ‘At The Top Of The Stairs’ taps into a spenllbinding spectral dialogue between Licht’s feedback sculptures and Connors’ eternally haunting blues abstractions. Working together since a formative in-store at Other Music in 1994, the pair have developed a complex, mutual electric guitar language inspired by the blues as much as Steve Reich’s ‘70s minimalism, Miles Davis’ electric jazz-blues fusion, and the freedoms of early ‘80s no wave - or in other words, a continuation of classic New York experimental music and moods.
As the title implies, there’s something looming above the music. Be it the spirits of their forebears or the black dog, we’re not sure, but either way their music makes for a hauntingly beautiful half hour of ghostly inference that no doubt best comes alive at night to colour your noirest fantasies.
Loren Connors & Alan Licht celebrate 30 years of unique collaboration with their 8th album, a richly textured recording of a 2018 show in Brooklyn, faithfully mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
Reissued in advance of their two night residency in May, 2023 at London’s Cafe Oto, ‘At The Top Of The Stairs’ taps into a spenllbinding spectral dialogue between Licht’s feedback sculptures and Connors’ eternally haunting blues abstractions. Working together since a formative in-store at Other Music in 1994, the pair have developed a complex, mutual electric guitar language inspired by the blues as much as Steve Reich’s ‘70s minimalism, Miles Davis’ electric jazz-blues fusion, and the freedoms of early ‘80s no wave - or in other words, a continuation of classic New York experimental music and moods.
As the title implies, there’s something looming above the music. Be it the spirits of their forebears or the black dog, we’re not sure, but either way their music makes for a hauntingly beautiful half hour of ghostly inference that no doubt best comes alive at night to colour your noirest fantasies.
Loren Connors & Alan Licht celebrate 30 years of unique collaboration with their 8th album, a richly textured recording of a 2018 show in Brooklyn, faithfully mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
Reissued in advance of their two night residency in May, 2023 at London’s Cafe Oto, ‘At The Top Of The Stairs’ taps into a spenllbinding spectral dialogue between Licht’s feedback sculptures and Connors’ eternally haunting blues abstractions. Working together since a formative in-store at Other Music in 1994, the pair have developed a complex, mutual electric guitar language inspired by the blues as much as Steve Reich’s ‘70s minimalism, Miles Davis’ electric jazz-blues fusion, and the freedoms of early ‘80s no wave - or in other words, a continuation of classic New York experimental music and moods.
As the title implies, there’s something looming above the music. Be it the spirits of their forebears or the black dog, we’re not sure, but either way their music makes for a hauntingly beautiful half hour of ghostly inference that no doubt best comes alive at night to colour your noirest fantasies.
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Loren Connors & Alan Licht celebrate 30 years of unique collaboration with their 8th album, a richly textured recording of a 2018 show in Brooklyn, faithfully mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
Reissued in advance of their two night residency in May, 2023 at London’s Cafe Oto, ‘At The Top Of The Stairs’ taps into a spenllbinding spectral dialogue between Licht’s feedback sculptures and Connors’ eternally haunting blues abstractions. Working together since a formative in-store at Other Music in 1994, the pair have developed a complex, mutual electric guitar language inspired by the blues as much as Steve Reich’s ‘70s minimalism, Miles Davis’ electric jazz-blues fusion, and the freedoms of early ‘80s no wave - or in other words, a continuation of classic New York experimental music and moods.
As the title implies, there’s something looming above the music. Be it the spirits of their forebears or the black dog, we’re not sure, but either way their music makes for a hauntingly beautiful half hour of ghostly inference that no doubt best comes alive at night to colour your noirest fantasies.