Swimming With a Hole in My Body

by Bill Connors

Swimming With a Hole in My Body cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 March 1980
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:21
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bill Connors' 'Swimming With a Hole in My Body' presents the former Return to Forever guitarist in a stark solo acoustic setting. The album's meditative fingerstyle approach and ECM recording aesthetic connect American guitar traditions with spacious jazz-adjacent minimalism.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, minimalistic, instrumental, virtuosic, fusion, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Feet First (6:13)
  2. Wade (3:27)
  3. Sing And Swim (4:40)
  4. Frog Stroke (5:13)
  5. Surrender To The Water (10:44)
  6. Survive (2:11)
  7. With Strings Attached (2:52)
  8. Breath (7:33)

Credits

  • Bill Connors - primary artist, composed by [all compositions by], guitar [guitars]
  • Allen Landau - lacquer cut by

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