Loren Connors – Hell’s Kitchen Park

Loren has a way of phrasing that's not only so immediately recognisable, but there's this sense of sadness to it. Not because he's playing in minor keys or chords that seem particularly sad, although they do seem sad. It's his phrasing that is so particular to him. When I first got this record, I remember putting it on and hitting play and just the very first chord, just being like hit and thinking, oh, you know, this is just a very special type of music that I've never heard before. There's also something about him, there was an immediacy to the music, and it very much sounded like somebody who was alone in a room but trying to communicate with the world in a way, with the lo-fi four-track recordings. And at the time I was doing four-track recordings and I just never heard anything like it before, and it's still one of my favourite records.