Propulsive but patient, White’s drumming has become an instrumental voice. After a career of making music with others, he has finished his first solo album.
In the early 1990s, Jim White was a drumming journeyman, having pounded out rhythms in a string of loud and rabid bands with snotty names, such as Feral Dinosaurs or Venom P. Stinger. On the cusp of 30, he started Dirty Three along with two other idiosyncratic Australian instrumentalists: violinist Warren Ellis and guitarist Mick Turner. Their lambent jams found unexpected enthusiasm inside Melbourne bars.
– released on Friday. The first in a triptych of new releases that includes a duo with guitarist Marisa Anderson and the return of Dirty Three after a dozen years, White’s brief, dense record underscores what has forever driven his singular approach: a ceaseless curiosity about what’s left to learn.“He’s like Albert Einstein behind a drum kit, even the way he dresses,” Ellis, the Dirty Three multi-instrumentalist, said in a video interview, chuckling.
For a half-century, that’s exactly what White has done most every day. Dirty Three’s open-ended improvisations provided endless runway, allowing him to develop new techniques and patterns that commingled math and emotion. Over the years, fantasy opportunities to work with childhood idols such as Lou Reed and Neil Young appeared but never materialised. Anyway, White treasured singer-songwriters who expanded that term, finding new ways to frame old feelings.
In spite of countless sessions, White never really cared about the recording process. He once owned a four-track he seldom used and could barely name a microphone. But early in 2020, after a tour with lutist George Xylouris, White stuck around Australia to help his ailing father. When pandemic curfews were announced, he rushed around Melbourne, borrowing and buying enough gear to record remotely. Turns out, nearing 60, he enjoyed becoming an engineering autodidact.
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