Alan Sparhawk

The husband-and-wife duo Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker were among the most extraordinary collaborative projects in rock music. They performed together as Low at the OFF Festival in 2011. Fourteen years later – and three years after the death of his wife – Alan returns to Katowice with a set of solo songs in which he forges his suffering and his voice into something new and unexpected. “I’m trying to use my voice, but I don’t want to hear my voice,” he said in an interview. Instead, on 2024’s White Roses, My God, the artist employs electronic effects and experiments with his voice, synths, and drum machines. And despite having experimented with practically everything over the course of his musical career, he’s now – in his own words – “stabbing into the unknown.”