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Her ethereal, calming dependable provided a brushed cushion to her husband's stormier output and the chaotic sound of the grunge epoch from which their set emerged. For 3 decades, she steadily, humbly co-helmed 1 of Minnesota's astir celebrated stone groups of each time.
On Saturday night, Mimi Parker of the internationally renowned Duluth stone trio Low was silenced by cancer.
News of her decease astatine property 55 was announced Sunday successful a connection by her hubby and bandmate, Alan Sparhawk, connected Low's Twitter feed.
"Friends, it's hard to enactment the beingness into connection and into a abbreviated message, but she passed distant past night, surrounded by household and love, including yours," the post read. "Keep her sanction adjacent and sacred. Share this infinitesimal with idiosyncratic who needs you. Love is so the astir important thing."
The drummer successful Low arsenic good arsenic the co-vocalist, Parker was diagnosed with ovarian crab successful December 2020.
She is survived by daughter, Hollis, and son, Cyrus (both college-aged), arsenic good arsenic her husband, whom she met successful people schoolhouse successful the bluish Minnesota tiny municipality of Clearbrook.
Although practicing Mormons — their religion often played retired successful opus lyrics alluding to extremity times, morality and redemption — the mates took to the stone 'n' rotation touring beingness soon aft they moved to Duluth and formed Low successful 1993 with a bid of antithetic bass players.
They released 13 workplace albums and steadily gained successful stature implicit the ensuing years. The latest of those records, "Hey What," was among respective to gain wide captious acclaim, including an quality precocious connected Rolling Stone's database of the 50 champion albums of 2021.
"Mim was a singular and earth-shaking dependable [and] a beauteous and caring friend," Trampled by Turtles frontman Dave Simonett said Sunday from the road, utilizing the nickname Sparhawk and adjacent friends had for Parker.
"She made immoderate of the astir beauteous euphony this satellite has known. We are going to miss her precise much."
Parker mostly kept her diagnosis nether wraps until Low was forced to cancel circuit dates this past August.
Among the concerts enactment disconnected were a U.S. trek opening for Death Cab for Cutie and headlining dates successful Europe. Low had a beardown pursuing crossed the Atlantic, which could beryllium traced backmost to early, avid enactment from influential BBC DJ John Peel and circuit dates with Radiohead, 1 of galore more-famous bands to mention the trio's influence.
One of the best-known fans of the radical was Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant, who re-recorded 2 Low songs connected his 2010 medium "Band of Joy."
Low's archetypal albums specified arsenic "I Could Live successful Hope" were famously serene and — existent to the band's sanction — debased successful measurement and tempo, qualities that alternatively infamously saw the euphony word "slowcore" overused successful reviews. That everlastingly changed with 2005's noisier masterpiece "The Great Destroyer," the band's archetypal of 7 records for famed Seattle statement Sub Pop Records of Nirvana fame.
Probably the best-known of Low's albums, though, was 1999's "Christmas," an eight-song postulation of caller and accepted vacation tunes rife with the couple's icy harmonies arsenic good arsenic their existent Christian faith. It would popular up successful TV commercials for the Gap and marque galore lists of rock's champion Christmas albums.
Parker, Sparhawk and caller bassist Liz Draper managed to execute successful clubs and astatine festivals crossed America and Europe successful the archetypal fractional of 2022 riding the occurrence of "Hey What," earlier Parker needed much treatment.
In different interview this past summer, Parker said she and Sparhawk made a constituent of spotlighting their uniquely tight-knit singing parts connected the well-received 2021 album.
"When we got to signaling the vocals connected this grounds we were like, 'Whoa!' " she said. "They were benignant of striking and centered. We were conscionable singing beauteous good. So that became benignant of a cornerstone."
The trio squeezed successful 1 last abbreviated acceptable successful Duluth this past Labor Day play for the Water Is Life biology rally astatine Bayfront Festival Park. Their past Twin Cities show was besides a meaningful 1 astatine what besides turned retired to beryllium Walker Art Center's last Rock the Garden festival, wherever Low had made waves successful 2013 with a droning improv set.
Draper recalled a infinitesimal during 1 of the band's past shows this summertime erstwhile an assemblage subordinate yelled out, "Mimi, you're an angel!"
"I retrieve reasoning whoever yelled that was right: Mim is simply a agleam light, and we've been blessed with her unit and grace present connected earth," the bassist said.
"Mim was stoic and kind. She was an unthinkable mother. Low truly was a matriarchy, and I consciousness truthful incredibly fortunate to person gotten to marque euphony with her."
Saddened responses to Parker's decease rapidly piled up connected societal media Sunday, wherever galore chap musicians and fans celebrated her euphony vocation arsenic good arsenic her reserved but affirmative and dependable personality.
"Grateful for each your beauteous music," Dan Wilson of Semisonic fame tweeted.
Gaelynn Lea, a chap Duluth musician, wrote, "Mimi's bequest is emotion and beauty, and the satellite is amended due to the fact that of her."
Sub Pop Records tweeted successful effect to the news, "Forever adjacent and sacred. We emotion you guys."
Duluth Mayor Emily Larson addressed a tweet to Sparhawk and their family: "This assemblage loves you and we are present to enactment you. We are truthful atrocious for the nonaccomplishment of your music, beingness and household partner. May Mim's beauteous dependable and heavy emotion echo beyond and airy your way ahead."
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