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Next to Into the Night Sky, this is my favorite of all the duo albums I've done with Loren. It's a document of one of our early gigs, released on vinyl by New Workd of Sound in 1996 and never before available as a CD, mp3, or stream. This is the uncut performance; the album had a short fade-out at the end of the first side. It's been remastered from a cassette dub that Loren made from the board tape; the original tape itself is lost.

Improv gigs often take a while to really get going musically, but as soon as we started this one it felt like everything fell into place. It really seems like a fully-formed, composed piece of music, despite the fact that there was no preparation and it was completely devised in the moment it happened. I remember I arrived at the gig late as I was coming straight from a Run On rehearsal. Usually I like to have a little time to get my bearings when I'm doing a show, but in this case I literally got out of the cab and onto the stage within minutes. The lesson learned was that sometimes it pays to play an improv gig with as little time to sit around thinking about what's going to happen as possible. We hadn't soundchecked, we hadn't had dinner together before the show, I just went straight into playing with Loren, after playing music with other people that was completely different in every respect. My mind was a blank.

As with many of the duo shows of this era, Loren and I are actually playing out of the same amp--his Fender Princeton--which partially accounts for the special quality of the sound of the guitar interplay. I was and am a big fan of the guitar work of Glenn Phillips and Harold Kelling on the Hampton Grease Band double album Music to Eat, and I really hear that influence on my playing here.

The album pressing was not great--every copy I have has some surface noise on the first side--so I am very happy to make Live in NYC available again in this format. The remaster is much clearer and better balanced than the LP--even if you have the record, you've never heard the music like this before.

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released September 3, 2020

Alan Licht: guitar
Loren Connors: guitar

Recorded by David Poe at CBGB 313 Gallery, February 5, 1994
Remastered by Patrick Klem, July 2020

Cover image of two sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, "Man Walking" and "Man Painting"

Thanks to John Allen, Jay Sanders, Steve Gunn and Michael Slaboch for technical assistance

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Alan Licht New York, New York

Guitarist from Love Child, the Blue Humans, Run On, Text of Light, Lee Ranaldo & the Dust

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