Loren MazzaCane Connors (born October 21, 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. During the early 1980s Connors released over a dozen albums with Kath Bloom and Tom Hanford. Since 1985 he has often performed and recorded with his wife Suzanne Langille. In the late 1990s he lead the blues-rock

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