Name: Mother
Brand: Xylouris White

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BELLA716CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-01-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5414940005578

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Xylouris White

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Bella Union

Master of Cretan lute, Γιώργος Ξυλούρης, and Jim White, a most innovative and charismatic drummer, have fulfilled a long held ambition in coming together as a duo and recording their first album GOATS. Fluid in nature, exciting and edgy, the music is riveting, compelling, spellbinding.

As George Xylouris drove Jim White from home to the studio, they saw a lot of goats on Crete’s rocky hillsides. Georges is Crete’s master of the lute. Jim is best known as the drummer of Dirty Three. Goats, Jim thought, would be a good name for the recording they were about to make. Goats are quintessentially Cretan animals. They love the high crags. They take risks calmly look about for new dangers. Goats, Jim and George agreed were a metaphor for the music they were about to invent - music that would fuse traditional Cretan music with rock. Both traditions would have to adapt but both these goats are lovers of going right up to the edge and nearly over.

European Booking Enquiries: whitexylouris@gmail.com 
Australian Booking Agent: www.feelpresents.com tim@feelpresents.com 
USA Bookings: Jim

A passion for exploration comes naturally to Xylouris White, the ruggedly visionary duo formed of Cretan lute player George Xylouris and revered Australian drummer Jim White. For their debut album, 2014’s Goats, Xylouris White compared themselves to the titular animals, wandering fearlessly through rough-hewn terrain. Two years later, they showed how far their horizons could reach on 2016’s majestically expansive Black Peak, named after a mountain top in Crete. Just 15 well-toured months later, the duo’s exploratory instincts drive them further onwards still on their third album, Mother, named to denote “new life”. Across Mother’s nine tracks, Xylouris White nurture fecund growths from the spaces between their instruments. Sometimes the songs drive with an invigorating urgency; sometimes they brood, plead, yearn and lull. The duo seem to discover each other anew at every turn, teasing the songs out from their fluid chemistry with the kind of virtuosity that knows when to listen, accommodate and learn afresh. “A theme of the album is the significance of simplicity and a child-like approach,” Xylouris explains. “So, we connect mother and child and play instruments as toys. Xylouris White is still gestating.” As on Black Peak, Mother’s labours benefited from the midwifery of choice collaborators. Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto produced again. Also on hand this time was Anna Roberts-Gevalt of old-time folk duo Anna and Elizabeth, whose earthy violin / viola lines and exquisitely sighing vocals can be heard on the track Lullaby. The result is an album of extraordinary accomplishment from two supremely seasoned players who’ve kept a close kinship with the richly, rewardingly inquisitive instincts of their youth.

Mother

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