This year, Mimi Parker, best known as part of the American band Low, died at the age of 55. We also recorded these indiedarlings.
For over 30 years, Low, consisting of Parker, her husband Alan Sparhawk and an ever-changing bassist (at the time of this concert, it was Matt Livingston), made easily digestible but pensive music. Their songs combine folk- and country-like vocal lines with fuzzy accompaniment. Slowcore, it was called, or dreampop. Fans of indie rock, and alternative band music, couldn’t get enough of it. So you can understand that Parker’s death came as a significant loss.
The world of avant-garde music, or modern classical music, has other values and heroes. There, the name Low will not ring a bell everywhere. But musicians, unlike the public, are rarely pigeonholed. So it happened that in 2009 we found Low at the Heartland Festival in Eindhoven with a few musicians from VocaalLAB. They reinforced the typically minimal band sound with a battery of percussion and keyboardist Dominik Blum, who framed the music with the church organ, the Korg synthesizer (remember those?) and everything in between. And, oh yes, also David Dramm contributes one more song. That hardly surprises us because if there is one composer in the Netherlands who is not bothered by pigeonholes, it is him.
1. David Dramm – The wheel of Catherine
(That’s how you sing) Amazing Grace
3. Sunflower
4. In metal
5. Candy girl
6. Dinosaur act
7. Kind of girl
8. Point of disgust
9. Whitetail
10. Canada
11. Belarus
12. Breaker
13. Silver rider
14. proposal band
15. he Lamb
16. Violent past
17. Laser beam
18. In silence
19. Always fade
20. Dragonfly
21. Murderer
22. $20 (My love is for free)
23. Sandinista
24. When I go deaf
