2009, Ecstatic Peace
White Out are indeed "white" and, in transcendence of such inherent nothingness, most definitely "out." Linn Culbertson and Tom Surgal met in the still wild mania of 1986 New York City in front of CBGB during a Big Black show (Steve Albini's notorious Chicago trio of miscreant salutation). They were introduced by ex-Sonic Youth drummer Richard Edson and, after discovering mutual fascinations with the avant-garde marginalia of no wave, free jazz, noise rock etc., began to play music in a secret location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Surgal had been playing drums his entire life informed by the majestic energy of Elvin Jones, as well as the primal insolence of Bradley Field (of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks "fame"). Linn had come out of modern 20th XX composition studies in Madison, Wisconsin. By the mid-90s, White Out had become one of the more interesting and increasingly stunning lights on a downtown scene that had grown a keen and critical eye on contemporary moves in improvised music. (Early on in this scheme, Thurston Moore had introduced Tom to no wave guitar legend Rudolph Grey and the two men re-established Mr. Grey's incendiary Blue Humans project, incorporating Thurston on intermittent second guitar, alongside a young Alan Licht.)
Senso is a live recording from two shows at the heralded and, sadly shut, Tonic club in NYC December 18, 2004. It was a lovely evening when O'Rourke and Moore, both of whom had played with White Out, but never together, would set the controls for the heart of the universe. Each set was its own distinct drama and captured the four players in a unified mind meld bringing the audience with them on a spirit-high journey.
Surgal had been playing drums his entire life informed by the majestic energy of Elvin Jones, as well as the primal insolence of Bradley Field (of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks "fame"). Linn had come out of modern 20th XX composition studies in Madison, Wisconsin. By the mid-90s, White Out had become one of the more interesting and increasingly stunning lights on a downtown scene that had grown a keen and critical eye on contemporary moves in improvised music. (Early on in this scheme, Thurston Moore had introduced Tom to no wave guitar legend Rudolph Grey and the two men re-established Mr. Grey's incendiary Blue Humans project, incorporating Thurston on intermittent second guitar, alongside a young Alan Licht.)
Senso is a live recording from two shows at the heralded and, sadly shut, Tonic club in NYC December 18, 2004. It was a lovely evening when O'Rourke and Moore, both of whom had played with White Out, but never together, would set the controls for the heart of the universe. Each set was its own distinct drama and captured the four players in a unified mind meld bringing the audience with them on a spirit-high journey.
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