Suzanne Langille stages a new performance focusing on the human voice as an instrument, and conversely on the instrument as an expression of the essence of the human voice. The performance includes emotive singing and speaking, contrasted with throat singing and overtones (Neel Murgai), interlaid with improvisational guitar (Loren Connors) and saxophone (Daniel Carter) -- all masters of their respective instruments.
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ISSUE opens its 2019 season with an impressive gathering of ISSUE alumni from across the organization’s history. Featuring a roving program of deeply experimental artists, the evening welcomes back Matana Roberts, Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux, & Suzanne Langille + Daniel Carter, Neel Murgai & Loren Connors.
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ISSUE is pleased to present the first-ever duo performance between guitarists Loren Connors and Oren Ambarchi: an occasion intersecting their parallel championing of the instrumental abstraction of the guitar, and their independently meaningful performance histories at ISSUE. The event is free for ISSUE Members.
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Loren Connors, Isobel Sollenberger, Steve Dalachinsky
ISSUE brings together venerable improviser Loren Connors, vocalist and flutist Isobel Sollenberger and poet Steve Dalachinsky for a layered evening of guitar, flute and poetry.
ISSUE brings together venerable improviser Loren Connors, vocalist and flutist Isobel Sollenberger, best known for her fronting the celebrated Philadelphian psych band Bardo Pond, and poet Steve Dalachinsky for a layered evening of guitar, flute and poetry.
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Bill Orcutt & Circuit Des Yeux / Loren Connors
First Unitarian Congregational Society: 116 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn 11201
Bill Orcutt performs a first-time duo set with Circuit Des Yeux, aka Haley Fohr. Known for her brooding, raw songwriting and singular four-octave voice, Fohr recently released a collaborative 7" with Orcutt. Legendary improvising guitarist Loren Connors, now active for 3 decades, performs solo. 7pm doors.
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Kim Gordon & Loren Connors
Loren Connors & Kim Gordon perform in a first-time duo, live at ISSUE from December 3, 2014. Click through for more video, produced by Windows Have Eyes.
All tickets are SOLD OUT! ISSUE is pleased to welcome back rock icon Kim Gordon performing in a special first-time duo with the legendary Brooklyn-based guitarist Loren Connors. Electro-rocker Gary War, recently residing in New Zealand, opens the night.
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ISSUE presents the No-Neck Blues Band, one of the most enigmatic, mysterious, and defiantly anti-commercial groups to emerge from 90s NY. Electric guitarists Loren Connors & Tom Carter play duo, pairing ancestral blues and psychedelic drone. Vocalist Suzanne Langille performs duo with Cammisa Buerhaus.
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Keiji Haino
Ongoing Series
ISSUE Project Room and the Whitney present three nights with Keiji Haino in solo and duo performances with Tamio Shiraishi and Loren Connors. One of the most legendary guitarists to come out of Japan, Keiji Haino is well known for his harsh blues-inspired guitar and torrential walls of sound with his band Fushitsusha.
Jozef Van Wissem + Loren Connors + Clint Heidorn
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, 113 Remsen St, Brooklyn
Lutanist Jozef Van Wissem and filmaker/guitarist Jim Jarmush release their second album, The Mystery of Heaven, in November on Sacred Bones. For this free release celebration, Van Wissem performs with guitarists Loren Connors and Clint Heidorn.
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ISSUE Project Room presents Dutch lutanist Jozef van Wissem in a two-day residency including collaborations with Jim Jarmusch, Susan Alcorn, Richard Bishop, Gregg Kowalsky, Paul Metzger, Loren Connors, and Heresy of the Free Spirit (Che Chen and Robbie Lee).