Recorded in January 2022 in Brooklyn, NY, this album traces the map of an extraordinary musical dialogue. Two guitars, two territories, a moment suspended in time. Loren Connors, an iconic figure in avant-garde blues for 50 years, and Alessandra Novaga, a unique voice in experimentation, come together here for an improvised performance that is both fragile and intense. A moment of deep listening to be shared beyond the boundaries of sound: in the communication between two artists of great sensitivity.

A live event captured on record: mystery, emotion and improvisation combine to create the magic of this improvisational piece by Alessandra Novaga and Loren Connors. This album, recorded live on 22th January 2022, captures a rare moment: the meeting of two unique approaches to the guitar — that of Loren Connors, a major figure in the American experimental scene, and that of Alessandra Novaga, an Italian explorer of sound abstraction, in a dialogue whose echo lingers long after the last note.

The concert was part of a season-opening evening at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York, which also featured Kim Gordon alongside Loren Connors seven years after their first duo, already immortalised on record in 2022 by the same label, Alara.

A snapshot of benevolence, a contained energy:

This duet between Connors and Novaga is like an almost whispered conversation between two guitars, opening up spaces for listening, suspension and revelation. What this record captures is not simply a concert — it is an immersion in the solemnity of silence, the tension of almost nothingness, the delicacy of sound gestures that are sometimes as if sprinkled. On stage, Connors and Novaga's interventions are overlapped and calibrated, with each silence itself becoming material. The guitars sometimes align in a beam of micro-details: quivering harmonics, subtle glides, dissolving attacks, minimal melodic droplets almost like piano notes. Their timbres blend — Novaga's high-pitched grains, Connors' spectral depth — to create a soundscape of subtle density.

These emotions, bordering on the infinitesimal, do not impose themselves through intensity or crescendo, but through contained tension, attentive listening, and suspended moments. We perceive gestures of restraint, sonic fractures, and breaths between two notes like heartbeats. Each note resonates in the silence that surrounds it.

Improvisation as revelation:

As masters of collaborative improvisation (Loren Connors has played in numerous duos and trios over the last ten years), Connors and Novaga excel in this session where nothing seems premeditated but everything points to perfect musical complicity. With mutual trust, each gives the other free rein while responding instantly, in a collective and reactive exploration.

Thick boxset including CD and a 24 pages booklet with unreleased drawings by Loren Connors and photos by Ellen Qbertplay.