Loren Mazzacane Connors

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Loren MazzaCane Connors (born 1949) is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. He is a prolific collaborator who has worked with artists including Jandek, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Smog and John Fahey.

Best known as a composer and improviser on acoustic and electric guitar, Connors has released over fifty albums, on commercial record labels such as Table of the Elements and Father Yod as well as on his own St. Joan, Black Label and Daggett self publishing imprints. They include spare solo and duo blues, ensemble experimental jazz, noise, drones, and bleak folk music. Since the 1980s, Connors has often performed and recorded with his wife Suzanne Langille. He also plays in the blues-rock group Haunted House with Langille, Andrew Burnes, and Neel Murgai.

Connors was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1992.

[edit] Recorded highlights

Hoffman Estates (Drag City 1998), with Alan Licht
Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 1-9 1979-1980 (Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod 1999)
Arbovitae (Hapna 2003), with David Grubbs
Night Through: Singles and collected works 1976-2004 (Family Vinyard 2006)
Sails (Table of the Elements 2006), with John Fahey