Jim White - Precious Bane (2025) [Official Digital Download]

It started in London with a shy fan offering Americana outsider Jim White a gift—an obscure 19th Century novel called Precious Bane. Over the years they kept up a correspondence, with White becoming increasingly intrigued by this shy, impoverished woman who led a fairly desperate hand to mouth existence in the south of England.

That woman is Trey Blake, a neurodivergent artist living in obscurity in Brighton, UK. Growing up with undiagnosed autism, she managed her condition and the resultant inability to function in the mainstream world through various addictions. Along the way she sought to create art (songs, prose & photography) that encompassed both light and dark, drawing on her experiences of brokenness and loss on one hand and transcendent beauty and oneness on the other.

The two have paired up to deliver Precious Bane, a haunting effort that finds them trading songs from across the ocean–-her parts being recorded by Joe Watson of Stereolab, whom Trey randomly met in a Brighton coffee shop. Like Jim, Joe was instantly struck by this exotic outsider. The resulting collaboration is an enigmatic sonic journey that transports the listener to a mythic, darkly lyrical soundscape.

TRACKLIST

1. Jim White - Ghost Song
2. Jim White - Rushing In Waves
3. Jim White - The Long Road Home
4. Jim White - One Last Love Song
5. Jim White - Down to the River We Go
6. Jim White - His Lady
7. Jim White - Tumbleweed Time
8. Jim White - Midnight Blue
9. Jim White - My Time With the Angels
10. Jim White - Ballad of the Gunfighters



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