ALAN SPARHAWK - With Trampled by Turtles TAPE Newspaper

ALAN SPARHAWK - With Trampled by Turtles TAPE NewspaperNo one can help you build something beautiful quite like those who know you best. Alan Sparhawk knows this well. In his years in Low, he built decades of stirring music with his wife and lifelong creative partner Mimi Parker. In recent years, he has performed around Minnesota with his son Cyrus in DERECHO Rhythm Section, a funk band that also frequently features his daughter Hollis on vocals. Theres an irreplaceable naturalism that comes with this

his debut LP

dedicated to the healing properties of sound

the vulgarities of change

Laurie Anderson

makes it even more intriguing

Bottled up here are the abrasive

more recent recordings peeled back the layers of orchestral bombast to focus in on the raw emotion at their heart of their compositions

and composition often steeped in self indulgence

But back at the turn of the dreary 1970s it remained a monochrome world defined by its unforgiving surrounding landscapes

A tension of research is generated

which prompted them to quit their day jobs

& Evan supercharges that