Xylouris WhiteBest Xylouris White Albums Ranked
7.2
Avg Score
6
Opinions
4
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Xylouris White’s catalog across 4 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 7.2/10. The top-rated Xylouris White album is Black Peak (2016) with a 7.6/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Goats and The Sisypheans. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2014 to 2019.
Goats
“Greek lute player George Xylouris meets Dirty Three drummer Jim White on an album that moves between Indian, Eastern European, African, Middle Eastern, Western, and Mediterranean modes. There is jazz and punk here along with dashes of bluegrass, klezmer, and folk and yet it’s all conveyed seamlessly.”
The Sisypheans
“The epic seems to exude everything Australian-Greek duo Xylouris White do. As is customary to each of their releases, The Sisypheans included, the first track recalls something like the opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey, in which the storyteller appeals for a tale from the ancients, a plea of “speak, memory”. It’s easy to believe we’ve heard ‘Tree Song’ before — opening their previous triad of albu”
Black Peak
“The minimalist cover of ‘Black Peak’, the second collaboration between Dirty Three’s Jim White and Cretan lute player Giorgios Xylouris, presents it as the sort of brooding post rock you would usually expect from the former. Instead, it sounds like taverna music as recorded for Dischord – fitting, then, that Washington polymath Guy Picciotto went behind the boards for the LP. Having formerly produ”