Ralph White

RALPH WHITE (Bluegrass, psych, americana/US)
White was a member of well-loved punk bluegrass outfit Bad Livers but his solo work is possessed of a much more lonesome spark, exaggerating the implied drone at the heart of the music of Dock Boggs and The Stanley Brothers. “Navasota River Devil Squirrel” was originally released as a CD-R in 2007, but this limited vinyl version comes courtesy of fellow musical loner Joshua Burkett’s new imprint. White plays wooden six-string banjo, violin, accordion and kalimba and his voice has a high, eerie quality to it that allows it to blend with the various primitive strategies that the music employs to reanimate traditional and original material alike. The use of kalimba situates aspects of the sound in some avant hillbilly fourth world, while the combination of dense matrices of string and White’s transporting vocal is extremely psychedelic. David Keenan - THE WIRE
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WILLIAM NEIN (Folk-punk/UK)
“The songs burn holes into themselves like black acid, sometimes descending into terrifying anxiety, but always with melodic charm.” Artrocker
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ALICE GIFT (DJ-Set/von Velvet Condom/Rock, Glam, Waves/FR, Berlin)
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