🎵 Xylouris White’s fifth and latest LP, April’s The Forest in Me (Drag City), stands apart from everything else in the duo’s discography. Xylouris White Tue 8/1 & Wed 8/2 Hideout | ✍️ Bill Meyer
, stands apart from everything else in the duo’s discography. Cretan folk musician George Xylouris—who contributes laouto , lyra , and vocals—and Australian MVP Jim White have typically recorded music that feels a lot like their live performances. Their concerts are usually exhilarating whirlwinds of ardent singing, mad strumming, and busy drumming that encompasses the hurtling momentum of a waterfall and the counterflow of the eddies at its foot.
Recording remotely, they developed a dozen brief, introspective instrumentals that eschew folkloric sources and song forms in order to evoke the stillness and distance of that moment in time. The insistent beats and keening bowed melody of “Night Club” reverberate as if across an unbridgeable distance, and the rustling brushwork and unhurried string harmonics of “Witnessed by Angels” sounds like music quietly willing itself into existence.
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