SFD

Between Night and Yesterday: coming 2026

Lara Haynes Freed

12/9/1972 - 9/11/2023

Words cannot fully capture the expanse of love felt for Lara, or the devastating grief felt by her loss. Lara was an amazing intellect and a brilliant creative force with a generous spirit, abundant heart, and beautiful laugh and smile. She was an accomplished musician, writer, and artist, a devoted partner and mother, and the sweetest of friends one could have, inspiring kindness, caring and love. Lara will be remembered and cherished for so much including the immense courage, strength, and grace she held and inspired in others.

Lara was a true artist. Only days before her death, she masterfully recorded music and vocals for her two final Shining Wire songs, Frozen Season and Artax in the Mire. A tribute release "Lara" including these two songs and a new version of End will be released. This release will also include Lara’s original and brilliant piano compositions recorded between 1999-2006 while she was in Wormwood.

Requiescat, Impulse Portrait, Westrodor, Starvation

release date 2/9/2024

on bandcamp and streaming platforms.

"LARA"

shiningwire.bandcamp.com

Shining Wire : Spotify

Lara will forever be held with love in our hearts.

Six Feet Distant Records

Home to Shining Wire since 2021

Seattle-area trio Shining Wire formed in summer of 2021. Their core sound is dark alternative rock, with a range of sub-genre influences including metal, goth, doom, and punk.

Band members are longtime musicians from the Seattle and Midwest underground scenes:

Machell Collier—drums and lead vocals (Free Verse, C’est La Mort);

Pat Freed—guitar, bass, and vocals (Wormwood, Black Label, S.I.K);

Lara Haynes Freed— keyboards and vocals (Wormwood)