THE FOREST IN ME
Jim White, George Xylouris, and Guy Picciotto are excited to announce the new Xylouris White album The Forest in Me. It was released on April 14, 2023 through Drag City and Remote Control (Aus/NZ). Here is the first single Latin White with a film by Rebecca E. Marshall. Portrait of XW by @anna_faragona.
TAILS OF TIME – An ode to the milk bar
The inspiration for this video story was both the name of the piece, “Tails of Time,” and the mood of the music that, to our ears, has a melancholy and nostalgic feel to it. We wanted to do a story about a place that’s been lost to time. Melbourne of years gone by seemed to be a shared history for both members of Xylouris White. So we chose to do the video as an ode to the milk bar – an old fixture of Melbourne not really seen anymore.
It’s a story familiar to Melbournians who grew up in the 70s and 80s, about hanging around at the milk bar, or on the street outside, making phone calls, buying lollies, probably cigarettes too, and old blokes also buying lollies and smokes, maybe a Tatts ticket. Sounds of families and foreign languages behind the counter in the dwelling attached. The milk bar owners, often migrants, were sometimes friendly, often grumpy, but ultimately held in esteem by locals and remembered with affection, becoming part of the story of someone’s youth. Now many former milk bars are in disrepair, or exist as gentrified buildings with the ghost sign left behind as the only evidence. It’s a familiar story everywhere.
Second Sister was Sister Moon for me. Her great big look at me full moon rise. I found the track compulsive listening. It is concise and incandescent. It demands your attention, draws you up, swirls you round and drops you with huge tenderness. You press play again…
I made the video about that full moon itchy feeling. Wake up! calls Sister Moon. Remember the mystery! I tried to make an internal outer-space. A moment to listen, to feel the rolling, intersecting rhythms and swirls like the reflecting patterns on the sea.
- Rebecca E Marshall
"Other Forests" includes the songs "Missing Heart," "Night Club," and "Forest in Me," which are from the Xylouris White album "The Forest in Me," released on LP/CD/Digital by Drag City on April 14, 2023.
"Other Forests" is by Jem Cohen
https://jemcohenfilms.com
Order "The Forest in Me" now:
https://ffm.to/theforestinme
Photo by Anna Faragona.