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Xylouris White
12+ albums
folkgreeceGreekinternational fusioninternational folk
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Xylouris White is George playing Cretan lute and Jim playing drums. They first met in Melbourne, come from different musical backgrounds yet have much in common which is evident when they get together and play live or record in the studio. George comes from a lively tradition and Jim, now based in New York has been playing in his own unmistakable style for decades with Venom P. Stinger, Dirty Three, The Double, Springtime, Bill Callahan and Marisa Anderson to name a few. They work closely with Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto as producer of all their albums: Goats, Black Peak, Mother, The Sisypheans and The Forest In Me. Short Quote Biography Xylouris White… remain trailblazing outliers with a supernatural power to express themselves as one… Their visceral interplay and spirit is a highly rare, magical and mysterious one, and with ‘Mother’, their third consecutive collaboration with Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, they've dispatched another compelling set of clues.-Vish Khanna - Exclaim The New York Times, By Ben Ratliff Both Born to the Form, a Couple of Continents and Major Traditions Apart Xylouris White, the duo of Jim White and George Xylouris When the lute player George Xylouris was a teenager — growing up in a mountain village on Crete, not far from the Ideon Cave, where Zeus worshipers have been making pilgrimages since the end of Minoan civilization — he was working as accompanist to his father, the folkloric singer and lyrist Antonis Xylouris. When the Australian dr
