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Low
Danielson
Famile
Date: April
17 & 18, 2001
Doors: 8:30 PM
Show: 9:00 PM
Tickets:
On Sale Now
$12.00 General Admission
Age Restrictions:
6 and over
Kitchen:
Limited
Seating: Limited Seating
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Low is a trio from
Duluth, Minnesota, who make very
slow music. That's not the only thing there is to their music, or
even the most important thing, but it's what you'll notice first.
Low plays songs stripped to their bare essentials: slow tempos, quiet
voices, powerful lyrics, and minimal instrumentations.
Low, which could be described as "Joy Division meets Simon &
Garfunkel", has four full-length albums and a handful of EPs
and singles, first released by Vernon Yard
Records and more recently by Kranky
Records. Guitarist/singer Alan Sparhawk
and percussionist/singer Mimi Parker
formed Low in 1993 with bassist John Nichols,
partly as an experiment in playing quiet, minimalistic music. Zak
Sally, a friend of Alan and Mimi's, became the band's permanent
bass player in 1994.
One of their earliest fans was New York producer Kramer,
who recorded their first two albums. Low spent much of 1995 and 1996
touring with bands like Soul Coughing, Luna, and Spectrum. When they
toured with Pell Mell, they got to know keyboardist and producer
Steve Fisk, and they later chose to work with him on
The Curtain Hits The Cast. Low's fourth and most recent album,
Secret Name, was produced in Chicago
by Steve Albini.
The music is based in part on the harmonies of Alan and Mimi, which
are accompanied with sparse sounds -- guitar, bass, and a simple drum
set. Low makes music in which the spaces between notes are as important
as the notes themselves, and perhaps even more so. In the end, though,
words cannot do the music justice. To get a more complete picture
of what Low's music is like, listen to one of the following MP3s from
Low's second album, Long Division,
from the most recent album Secret Name,
or from the Christmas EP. |
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