Subject: Re: My Top Ten whatever
Subject: Re: My Top Ten whatever
Subject: Re: shoegazing 101.
Subject: The Curtain Hits the Band
Subject: Re: The Curtain Hits the Band/Low
Subject: Re: Velour 100
Subject: Low
Subject: Debased in reality...
Subject: Re: Low
Subject: Re: Sweet Jane?
Subject: Tanya Donnelly EP
Subject: Re: Metal Machine "Music"
Subject: jill burkhart's low question
Subject: LOW discography continued
Subject: CD Prices
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:53:22 -0800
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jill Burkart murmured...
>Low keeps showing up on Top 10 lists all over the place. Who are they?
>what do they sound like? I'm rather interested because they're playing
>live here soon.
>
>Thanks,
Low began as an experiment in playing "low and slow" by the husband and
wife duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Bassist Zak Sally later joined
the Duluth band to complement Alan's guitar and Mimi's one snare-one cymbal
drum kit.
Their sound is very minimalist consisting of v-e-r-y slow beats (even
slower than Codeine), ringing guitar, enigmatic lyrics, and the beautifully
droney vocals of Alan and Mimi.
Their discography is:
I Could Live in Hope (1994?)
Long Division (1995)
Transmission EP (1996)
The Curtain Hits the Cast (1996)
I really don't know of any other bands to compare their sound to. I guess
if you enjoy Codeine, Red House Painters, or Idaho, you will probably like
Low.
BTW, Low is mesmerizing in concert...see them!!!
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 01:40:22 -0500
In a message dated 97-01-05 22:03:56 EST, you write:
<< Low keeps showing up on Top 10 lists all over the place. Who are they?
what do they sound like? I'm rather interested because they're playing
live here soon. >>
Low is very minimalist music--a guitar, a bass, and a snare drum usually. AP
said that if Low gets any more bare, it will not be music, just silence. It
is odd music--slow and depressing sounding, but at the same it fulls you into
thinking it is full. The vocals are done by a male and female. To imagine
it, imagine the song "You are my sunshine" or Joy Division's "Transmission"
slowed down half way (they have done both). Love it.
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:59:41 +0000
30, 96 10:31:17 pm
Jens Alfke Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 04:56:11 -0500
>Low keeps showing up on Top 10 lists all over the place. Who are they?
>what do they sound like? I'm rather interested because they're playing
>live here soon.
>
>Thanks,
Low are a trio (Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker & Zak Sally) from Duluth,
Minnesota who play ultra-slow, ultra-long, sparse and moody compositions
with some on the last album clocking in at 10-14 min. This stuff is in a class
all its own. All I can say is if you hear them and like them, then you're
hooked.
I recently got Curtain Hits the Cast and I can't stop listening to it. The
combination
of Alan and Mimi's vocals backed by the ultra slow beats and twangy guitar
is phenomenal. I love "Words" on I Could Live in Hope. I could listen to that in
my car over and over again. Their recordings are found on the Vernon
Yard label carried by Caroline, most of their stuff produced by Kramer (who has
produced many including Galaxie 500) and the discography goes like this:
I Could Live in Hope
Transmission EP
Long Division
The Curtain Hits the Cast
They are starting a North American tour supporting the Swans
apparently (Soundtracks for the Blind was another top 20 choice
of mine this year) so go and definately check them out, you won't
see a quieter band, or anything else more enigmatic this year.
But then I "kinda like them" so I'm biased.
Steven
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:08:11 +0100
>the discography goes like this:
>
>I Could Live in Hope
>Transmission EP
>Long Division
>The Curtain Hits the Cast
Don't forget
Finally EP (1996)
Over The Ocean EP (1996)
Frank
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:07:18 +0100
JJR Tolkien wrote:
>I really love this stuff and need
>more of anything that Warren Defever, Trey Many, and anyone in HNiA
>has has done that is like this. I already have the HNiA albums
>Livonia, Home is in your Head/The Dirt Eaters, Mouth by Mouth, and
>Stars on ESP. I also have Tarnation - Gental Creatures, and album
>that has a few songs recorded at Warren's house. I am aware that I
>still need to get King of Sweet. If anyone can help me with that and
>any information on any other essentials of these people... I would
>REALLY appreciate it. Thanks...
Try Grenadine's album 'Nopalitos' (and the 7" from that album,
'Christiansen'), recorded at Time Stereo/Warren's House as well. Check out:
for the details about these discs.
Frank
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 10:51:25 -0500
Greetings from Hamburg to the World!
Jill Burkart wrote:
>Low keeps showing up on Top 10 lists all over the place. Who are they?
>what do they sound like? I'm rather interested because they're playing
>live here soon.
>Thanks,
I just bought me Low�s "The curtain hits the cast" these days: it�s
incredible, wonderful; something that keeps me warm currently (while its
above -20�C outsides...).
So don�t miss them, Jill...
Now to something completely different: does anyone know the band "Heavenly
bodies"? I heard a beautiful song of them a few years ago, the first and
last time I heard of them at all... Does somebody know them?
Best wishes
CHRISTIAN HASIEWICZ
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:02:43 -0500
Extrapolated from CMJ New Music, Jan. 1997, from an interview with
Robert Forster, ex-member of The Go Betweens:
On lyrics: "To me, there's a really long time between when the first
verse happens and the next verse, in terms of the story of the song, and
I often wonder how to pick up the thread from one verse to the next.
Every verse in something of a fresh start. Also, everything I do is
grounded in reality, it's not the mystic, let's look in the dictionary
for strange words, 4AD sort of lyrics."
If I wasn't wearing such a well-insulated winter coat, I would have
sworn this Beggars Banquet recording artist just slammed 4AD! I always
like Grant McLennan better anyways...
Jeff Keibel
Scarborough, ON
CANADA
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:53:54 -0500
In a message dated 97-01-06 12:28:11 EST, you write:
<< Now to something completely different: does anyone know the band "Heavenly
bodies"? I heard a beautiful song of them a few years ago, the first and
last time I heard of them at all... Does somebody know them? >>
I have their cd. "Rain on Me" is probably the song you are talking about.
It is a great cd. Two of the people who play instruments on the album are
from DCD I believe.
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:51:29 -0800
RBNRy emits:
>Then again. Mr. Reed hasn't put out a truly decent record since
>"Transformer".
Hey, what about "Metal Machine Music"? Which is finally out on CD now,
and let me tell you that the added dynamic range really reveals new
layers of the, uh, music. Actually I have to confess to never having
heard it in its vinyl incarnation (which is incredibly hard to find, no?)
-- but I did force myself to sit through the whole CD just so I could say
I did (as I'm doing right now.) I have to say that it's the most
irritating, headache-inducing, harsh thing I've ever listened to
voluntarily, and yes that includes Merzbow, which tends more to sheets of
white noise, whereas MMM has this incredibly obnoxious ~10Hz stutter in
the left channel that drives you crazy.
I'm not necessarily saying it's bad, but I haven't found the right _use_
for it yet. Background music while programming ain't it. But if you've
got a nightclub you need cleared out, or roommate you need driven away,
or some paint you need stripped, MMM would be a godsend.
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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:33:53 -0800
I saw a copy of the Tanya Donnelly EP at a local store, and I was
wondering if it was worth the $11 asking price, and also what it sounds
like.(AMPish, BELLYish, etc.)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:18:45 GMT
Jens Alfke
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:04:44 -0600
i put three songs by low on the tape i sent you in sept.
shane
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