John R Mulvey is, for these little black ducks, the most respected music writer out there. He is the editor of and pens a regular column / blog / twitter account for the UKs Uncut magazine focussing on new releases and reissues - the acts most other publications gloss over but whom are more often-than-not the more interesting artists around. Recently John he has been raving about the Xylouris White debut album GOATS and just this last week he caught them live for the first time, in London. Check his reaction below. Xylouris White tickets on-sale now. To Cargo, earlier this week, for what I think might have been one of my favourite gigs of the year. I wrote about Xylouris White and their Goats album a few weeks ago, but even that excellent record was scant preparation for Jim White and George Xylouris incandescent live show. As I tried to explain in that last blog, the roots here are in Cretan folk music, a fact emphasised by the large number of Greek people singing along and, eventually, dancing. Live, though, I kept thinking a lot about Sandy Bulls duels with Billy Higgins; a sense of folk music being stretched into dynamic new shapes by the rolling explosions of a jazz drummer. As the songs ebbed and flowed for ten minutes or more, Xylouris and White would hold each other in locked stares. White would raise a drumstick, spin another, mouth some kind of teasing encouragement, and accelerate his playing into something approaching hardcore velocity. Xylouris would respond with a bout of shredding on his lute that reminded me eventually of Sonny Sharrock. Sat hunched over the lute, his playing was so fierce that he ended up having to take a mid-set break, for ten minutes, to change two broken strings. It was all pretty amazing, really. https://twitter/JohnRMulvey feelpresents/fp_tour/xylouris-white/
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:28:16 +0000
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