Haunted House

Haunted House is Loren MazzaCane Connors's much anticipated group, featuring Suzanne Langille on vocals, Andrew Burnes on second guitar, and Neel Murgai on percussion. Langille wrote two of the three monstrous tracks, the third being a cover of Lonnie Johnson's 'Blue Ghost Blues." They all permit MazzaCane plenty of space to roam. The 23 minute "Been So Long" is dominated by his solo 'dialogue' between two separate voicings, where he alternates slow, surging and quivering downstrokes with frail, tremulous speechnotes. Langille's entrance is so unexpected it's unnerving, her voice this time dark and ominous as it descends from the clouds. With MazzaCane firing epic, heartwrenching blues arcs into the blackness, this is one of his most dramatic records. (The Wire, David Keenan)