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Laser Beam

from Evensong by Ian Manire

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This abstracted take on Low's original is a small thanks to Mimi and Alan for all the beauty and hope they've brought to my life and so many others. Their kindness has always been as boundless as their talent. Alan let me interview him back in 2003, even though I had no publication behind me at the time (though it ended up being published by PopMatters), and he and Mimi always took time after every time I saw them live to talk with those who hung around.

Mimi's musical brilliance shone through all of her music, but her warm, sweet, incomparably beautiful singing on "Laser Beam" was always for me the purest distillation of her gifts. I tried to undertake this cover in the days after she passed, but though I never knew her, found that I could not keep my eyes free of tears and my hands steady enough. Finally, nearly a year later on what should have been her next birthday, I revisited "Laser Beam" and was able to complete what I hope honors her and Alan's work. As in all of Low's music, I hope in my take, you can hear the light and the dark in us all try to work it out.

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from Evensong, released September 4, 2023
Written by Low (Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk) for their 2001 album 'Things We Lost in the Fire'. Interpreted by Ian Manire for this album.

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