10"
Not sure why or how any of the Loren Connors work is allowed to go out of print. Criminal, really, when you consider how widely cited his practice seems to now be. Family Vineyard's latest effort to recast the light sees them revisit a 10" released back in 2016, what was the fifth iteration of the Departing Of A Dream series. Iteration seems like an appropriate way of reflecting on Connors compositional style, his guitar playing instinctively methodical, a slowly unfolding evolution of a terribly lonesome sound that feels earthy and elemental, a divination from the ether of a feeling that always been there just waiting for Connors to turn up and plug into. That this arrived more than ten years after the previous contribution to the series provides even more credence to the suggestion. This is an idea he's been circling around for decades now, still with new ground to uncover. While the title Departing Of A Dream does suggest an awakening of some kind, the sounds summoned here still feel very much dreamstate driven, that translucent glaze of hypnagogic in-between-ness, a squinting towards the velvet morning light, that feeling of not quite being present. Which is to say, more of the same opiated transcendental blues reconfiguration Connors calls his own and i'll call genius. Vital now as then as forever.
