Chik White // Holiday Rambler
Split
(Arachnidiscs)
Halifax, NS // Toronto, ON
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From the muddy improvisation of James Lindsay:

The latest in Arachnidisc’s series of split tapes (sides 15 and 16) unplugs and takes two steps back in time with strong turns from Chik White (Darcy Spidle of Divorce Records / OBEY Convention) and Holiday Rambler (D. Alex Meeks of Hooded Fang). The music of Chik White takes the crudest elements of American folk as a base for his muddy improvisations that find their muttered, salt-marsh-soul somewhere between Bill Orcutt and Jandek’s acoustics with accompaniment by a junkyard orchestra of Jew’s harp and kitchen-sink-percussion. When once asked by a journalist to help decipher the lyrics to a little-known country blues, John Fahey replied, “they didn’t care about the words” and “were all illiterate anyway.” Holiday Rambler sings for these illiterate ghosts who seem to be nodding in approval while turning a victrola’s crank. The folklore of Alan Lomax blows hard over the Appalachian porches (old men and all) where this could have been recorded, leaving an imperfect atmosphere to dress down these baritone ballads in the twilight.

Des improvisations vaseuses de James Lindsay:
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