Inner Day Jim White

'Inner Day’ is a state of nature: peace and tension, rest and disquiet aloft on the windof Jim’s inspiration. Warren Ellis again: “Mr. White has forged one of the most distinctand challenging careers in music. All heart and guts. Take no prisoners. His first soloalbum blew my mind. He’d cracked it. The mother fucker. The album we are all tryingto make. Evasive, inclusive, single minded and edited with the perfection I’ve come toexpect from Jim. [‘Inner Day’] is a miracle. The man. The drums. That White style.The heartbeat of life.”  Working in conversation with his long-time collaborator Guy Picciotto on ‘Inner Day’,Jim travels further into the hypnotic relationships that they captured on ‘All Hits:Memories’. Here's another old friend, filmmaker Jem Cohen: “I drove around listeningto Jim’s new record. It fit so well, even when the things themselves didn't: thestraights and turns of the road, fields and houses and industrial parks, the possiblerain, deep spring greens and the greys of a parking lot, the rain when it finally came.It goes where it will, quite fearlessly but never demonstrative or showy about its risktaking. I’d say the record’s a conversation Jim’s having with the world, one that isn’tabout drums or being a drummer but, more expansively, about music as the spillwayfor feeling and experience.”  Jim himself adds: “On my first album ‘All Hits: Memories’, I wanted to have akeyboard sound to keep the drums company as together they celebrated why somethings just ‘hit’ the psyche, why some memories stick. Later, I found the notes wantedto move more and so on my second album ‘Inner Day’, that is what they do.”