[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Alan and Cyrus play in DAMIEN:
https://marcgartman.bandcamp.com/track/damien

 

[The Soup Nazi]

I must spread some Reputation around before giving it to hipster_bebop_junkie again.

[_tunic_]

a full album by DAMIEN is released today:
The Boy Who Drew Cats

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

SBD/AUD matrix of a Tired Eyes show in Minneapolis:
https://archive.org/details/TE2022-02-26.SBD.AUD.Matrix

A recent live recording of Damien!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...KsPGShtdaq Fk


Acoustic in the Armory season 1 episode 5: Alan Sparhawk.
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/677808/s...-alan-sparhawk

Technology has left me behind. I no longer know how to download/rip the video. Can someone help with that?

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

SBD/AUD matrix of a Tired Eyes show in Minneapolis:
https://archive.org/details/TE2022-02-26.SBD.AUD.Matrix

A recent live recording of Damien!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G9bMMP8w0V_4BETol8k2y2xVq0Tkc6lH?fbclid=IwAR3pFhd aHdMW1vHWZ6ndEsCXcDvqDleISLPAJQziLQq5umRKsPGShtdaq Fk


Acoustic in the Armory season 1 episode 5: Alan Sparhawk.
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/677808/s...-alan-sparhawk

Technology has left me behind. I no longer know how to download/rip the video. Can someone help with that?

Thanks for the links. As for the video... First I had to turn on my VPN so the site wouldn't think I was a bad hombre from a shithole. Then I used Video DownloadHelper, but all I got was a nanofragment. Then for some reason the same VDH extension let me get a full-length 1280x720 mp4, but it was only video. So THEN, once again with VDH, I got another mp4 that was audio-only. And THEN I used Media Converter & Muxer to combine shit up. And NOW there's this:

https://mega.nz/file/k0pQEQxR#E4QUGUEG9hZJKSEWWnb3sPmmlAs8DQo9s8noLC9RG zw

Lemme know how it looks/sounds on yer device over there.

[Severian]

HEY WHAT is still the best album of the decade as far as I’m concerned.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

https://mega.nz/file/k0pQEQxR#E4QUGUEG9hZJKSEWWnb3sPmmlAs8DQo9s8noLC9RG zw

Lemme know how it looks/sounds on yer device over there.

These are the details, by the way:

 

If someone can extract a better version, more power to us all, but I guess what I got could be what there is. What what - in the butt.

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Amazing. Thank you so much, as well for detailing the process. Now with those tools I should probably try to download the recent Friday I'm in Low videos from instagram. The one from last weekend's was beautiful, but also heartbreaking.

[The Soup Nazi]

The Wire interviewed Kramer recently and, "to accompany the interview", put up a playlist on their site. As they should, they included a Low song, "Words". Here's the paragraph about it:

Low
“Words”
From I Could Live In Hope (Vernon Yard, 1994)

Low’s debut LP, recorded at Kramer’s Noise New Jersey studio, stands out as one of the great records of the 1990s. In our interview, Kramer tells the story of how an envelope containing the cassette demo that Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker had mailed to the Shimmy-Disc post office box arrived shredded, prompting him to follow a trail of clues to track down the artists responsible for the hauntingly gorgeous music it contained. At Kramer’s urging, I Could Live In Hope was released by Virgin Records’ Vernon Yard imprint rather than Shimmy-Disc, which lacked the resources to make the record the hit he felt it deserved to be. Everything about this track is perfect — a testament to both the band’s magic and Kramer’s understated production style.

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

New release by Zak Sally's project, The Hand, with Alan Sparhawk collaborating on "Love Potion (#2183"):
https://the-hand.bandcamp.com/album/the-hand-vol-5

 

[_tunic_]

The following message was sent by the Retribution Gospel Choir bandcamp page:

Alan has a new funk project with some friends called Derecho Rhythm Section. The first two songs are out today ahead of tomorrow’s Bandcamp Friday. Check it out: derechorhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/get-high-impossible-day

2nd track features Nona Invie of Dark Dark Dark!

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Gonna get high to this. <3

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

More music from Derecho Rhythm Section:
https://derechorhythmsection.bandcam...on-in-the-park

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Even more music released by Derecho Rhythm Section!
https://derechorhythmsection.bandcam...t-it-back-rent

[_tunic_]

This was mentioned in a bandcamp post by Drone Not Drones.

Only just started listening to it, so can't tell yet whether I like it or not ...

 

For What Seems a Thousand Year by IOSIS // LOW

IOSIS // LOW
For What Seems a Thousand Years

// // //

For What Seems a Thousand Years is a fractal reimagination of and a bearing of witness to Low's groundbreaking album HEY WHAT. This album is a meditative fever dream that was performed live at Parkway Theater, Minneapolis, on October 18th, 2022.

The performance was inspired by loss, by things falling apart in ways that are out of control, and that are impossible to recover once gone. It is an exercise in acceptance, and it was not and is not meant to be an easy listen. Lose yourself to the music, take a walk with it, allow it to envelop you and give yourself over to the transformative experience.

Full performance video here:
youtu.be/RYWdsnzOEXo

// // //

Thank you Low, with all of my gratitude, for a lifetime of inspiration and catharsis, and for offering me the opportunity to explore this body of work and for urging me to document and share the results.

Thank you Shane, Holly, Chris, BJ and to everybody else who supported me in realizing For What Seems a Thousand Years.

// // //

Dedicated to those who we've lost.

// // //
credits

released October 6, 2023

Performed and Produced by IOSIS
Picture and Design by IOSIS
IOSISdrone.com

All sounds and song titles sourced from Low's HEY WHAT
chairkickers.com

Recorded live Oct 18 2022 at Parkway Theater, Mineapolis MN
theparkwaytheater.com

Mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Studios
signaturetonerecording.com

HEY WHAT recordings used courtesy of Sub Pop Records, all rights reserved
subpop.com

// // //

Partial equipment list:
SAMPLR
Herbs & Stones Pathways
Retro Mechanical Labs Jekyll n Hyde
Retro Mechanical Labs Electron Fuzz Custom
OTO Machines Biscuit
OTO Machines BAM
Orthogonal Devices ER-301
Erica Synths SYNTRX
Whimsical Raps Three Sisters
Rabid Elephant Natural Gate
Make Noise Mimeophon
Mutable Instruments Beads
Korg KAOSS Pad 3
16n Faderbank
Expressive E Touché

// // //
license

all rights reserved

update after briefly listening through it all, and much fast forwarding:
didn't like. Too much distortion, hurts my ears
but my ears are f#cked, so that doesn't mean that you won't like

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

It's heavy and mournful. I like it. Core material is LOW's "Hey What". Sub Pop only gave rights for digital release and the Youtube content, no physical release for sure, but it has been approved by Alan.

Another related artifact: There is a cover of "Laser Beam" on this CD by Ian Manire as a tribute to LOW and Mimi Parker. All sales of the CD and digital downloads are donated to the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance in Mimi's honor.
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong

[The Soup Nazi]

Sleater-Kinney - 2023-11-10 - Roundhouse, London, UK

Dig the live "Low version" of "Dance Song '97"...

[_tunic_]

I was looking if there's video's of Alan's solo tour in Europe, couldn't find them (yet?)
But this is a very nice cover of Will The Night, in Italian:
Lullabier - Notte

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Christmas songs from the 80s with participation from Alan Sparhawk's father; and a link to donate to Hope Lodge-An institution who provides support to people facing cancer and their caregivers when cancer treatment is far away:
https://bio.to/sparhawk-eyre

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Merry Christmas. Here's "Just Like Christmas" by Willem Dafoe Fan Club (Hollis Mae Sparhawk & Noah Saunder Ruona), plus guest Alan Spar-Claus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dGmWAf99_c