Blues: The "Dark Paintings" of Mark Rothko

by Guitar Roberts

Blues: The "Dark Paintings" of Mark Rothko cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1990
  • Label: St. Joan
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating under an early pseudonym, avant-garde guitarist Loren Connors pays tribute to the brooding abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko. The heavily improvised, painfully slow electric blues constructions create an intensely lonely and atmospheric form of ambient Americana.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, instrumental, lo-fi, improvisation, guitars, bluesy, ambient, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Blues No. 1
  2. Blues No. 2
  3. Blues No. 3
  4. Blues No. 4
  5. Blues No. 5
  6. Blues No. 6
  7. Blues No. 7

Credits

  • Guitar Roberts - primary artist
  • Suzanne Langille - compiled by
  • Loren Mazzacane Connors - composed by [all compositions by]

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