Loren Connors - The Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet
(Family Vineyard)
This is the third volume of Loren's Departing of a Dream series. This time around, the subject is Juliet (of Romeo & Juliet). There are five tracks, totaling just over 30 minutes. The first track, "Her Love," is over 20 minutes long, making it clearly the focus of the record. Fittingly so, since from Romeo's point of view, "her love" was the reason for everything that happened. However, their rapturous romance is fractured and hard to discern. Instead, pillowy ambience and meandering, minor-key guitars evoke a stark and blackened portrait of the story's tragic end. So, in keeping with Shakespeare's prose, the mood of the piece is filtered through the knowledge of the tragedy, which will inevitably take place. Largely untreated, slightly unhinged, and a little dissonant, the second track, "Her Fate," approximates the characters' loss of control in their own fate. "Her Death" is a short, subdued piece, which captures the hazy, dreamlike death of Juliet, while the closer "In Lovers Eyes" is a soft tribute to longing.
Certainly not a vast departure for Loren, but his Departing of a Dream series seems to provide the perfect template for him to explore different ideas within the framework of regret, tragedy, and longing. His guitar work digs deeper and deeper into your heart, surrounding itself with sorrow.
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