Label: Room40

限定クリア・ヴァイナル版入荷!!多くの名演を残す米ギタリストの大家ローレン・コナーズ、非常に幅広いキャリアを持つ百戦錬磨の音楽家デヴィッド・グラブス、大ベテラン2者が1stデュオアルバム[Arborvitae]以来20年振りとなる共同録音をリリース。それぞれが交互にピアノとギターを担当した珍しい編成の録音で、魅惑的且つ幽玄なアンビエンスが全体を支配、ラストにはローレン・コナーズとスザンヌ・ランギールの[Child]のカバーも収録。ジャケット・アートワークはローレン・コナーズによるもの。







Matte laminate and monochrome printed sleeve featuring cover painting by Loren Connors, on clear vinyl

Evening Air is the result Loren Connors and David Grubbs’s first trip to the recording studio in the two decades since their first duo album, Arborvitae (Häpna). Arborvitae stood out for its spellbinding, utterly unhurried meshing of electric guitar (Connors) and piano (Grubbs).

With this long-awaited return, Connors and Grubbs take turns trading off on piano and guitar, with Grubbs at the keyboard for the two gently expansive pieces on the first side and Connors taking over the instrument for three gorgeous miniatures on the flip, including an album-closing and perfectly heart-stopping version of Connors’s and Suzanne Langille’s “Child.” The album’s wildcard is “It’s Snowing Onstage,” which finds the two locking horns with two electric guitars before Loren blew the minds of all present in the studio by unexpectedly switching to drums.

Loren Connors is one-of-a-kind, one of a handful of deservedly storied musical greats gracing us with their presence, and with Evening Air David Grubbs again demonstrates that he’s a stellar musician who also ranks among the most simpatico of collaborators.

A cover painting by Connors—another wordless signalling—sets the tone for this most beguiling of seances.