white light profile picture

white light

About Me

"White Light do a sweetly jangled volk-pop number. The results are exactly as pleasing as the concept." - The Wire UK

"A drifting cloud of psychedelic friendliness." - Terrascope

"Ian Paige offers a blissed-out song that purrs and drones and tramps along. It's an odd blend of forceful rhythm (a distant cousin of the drum part on the Pretty Things' "Private Sorrow"), minimal but resonant melody, and overtones from a grove of fuzzy guitars: an abundance of open strings and pinkies grabbing variations of the principle chord. Partly because of its swirling, circular movement, the music feels effortless: you may think that it's still getting going when the track starts to fade. I find myself wanting to start "Saraswati" again, like the first singles I ever loved and bought myself. You want to play it over and over, beginning to end to beginning, to keep that soundworld alive." - The Bollard

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/05/2006
Band Website: www.lanimauxtryst.com
Band Members:

Sounds Like: Cursillistas/White Light 12" split - "Travel Light"
Limited Tour Edition.

With a US tour booked this June, Cursillistas and White Light decided to press an extremely limited edition tour-only 12" vinyl LP for the occasion. Cursillistas' side begins with previously-unreleased live favorite "Crutches" (hand-picked by White Light for this split), and then follows up with a bummer-folk quartet of their most recently-recorded material. White Light presents four previously-unreleased songs on their side of the split, which mark their first official output since a well-received 7" single in the Tryst Haunt Series over a year ago. A warm lo-fi glow cushions these psych-soul-pop tunes, which mix communal spaced-out jams with heavy loner meditations. Pressed onto black vinyl, packaged in a silkscreened art paper sleeve, and includes high-quality mp3 download of the album. Limited to 150 copies!

Tryst Haunt Series: number 705
Split 7" White Light's "Saraswati" b/w Barry Burst's "Rabies"

Order now through L'Animaux Tryst lanimauxtryst.com/order.htm or email lanimaux (at) gmail (dot) com.

"ian paige's white light project turns in a graceful, drony and jangly piece of classic lo-fi psych-pop, with a subtle galloping rhythm track keeping the good vibes in line. swirls of phasing synth quietly sneak up on the sweet vocals and lead guitars until all ride off on the figurative elephant in the sky. meanwhile, perennial favorite barry burst crashes that elephant back to the earth dirt and kicks up a party that could only be described as bollywood on acid. tablas and a host of handclaps provide the rhythmic thrust, while eastern strings and a chorus of singers (a multi-tracked barry) parade the blissfully gone love-fest through town. black 7" vinyl record with hand-stamped center labels held in a tri-fold die-cut chipboard sleeve, letterpressed and screenprinted in a multicolor design, with screenprinted chipboard insert. hand-numbered to 300."

__sold out_____
l'a-t-(f)-r 004 white light's for your leaves

"in which the bedroom and the aether mix in a tuneful headtrip through folk psychedelia. originally released (and out-of-print) as a debut cdr when the band was called certain numbers, now almost completely re-worked with new sonic trances and our favorite tunes still intact. the album begins with four songs of sublime lo-fi folk, accented with subtle and unique instrumentation and electronic tones. then, for a moment, it takes a side-road that wormholes into the cosmos for an extended section of warm electronic instrumentals, with machines and controlled feedback fraternizing with thumb-piano, snippets of conversation, and other acoustic sounds. all is pulled back to earth with the final track, featuring a guitar strum, percussion, and melodic confessions to bring this wayfaring ship home."
Record Label: L'Animaux Tryst (Field) Recordings
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

the WIRE UK review

Unending thankyou's to Byron Coley and the Wire for their continued support for all that we do up here to occupy ourselves during the long Maine winters.Order a back issue of the Wire's October '08 is...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:27:00 GMT

terrascope review

thanks to terrascope for this lovely review of l'animaux family endeavors. i think he did mix barry's and my tracks up, but i'll go with "cloud of psychedelic friendliness" any day.there are more subs...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:57:00 GMT

white light in the news

Chris Gray from the Portland Phoenix had these kind words to say about a recent show at Strange Maine with Frank A.M."White Light's fleeting, awesome set was part of the L'Animaux Tryst family's new "...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

pre-order "for your leaves"

"for you leaves" will be released in a very small handmade print run mid-may. you can pre-order copies from l'animaux tryst now!www.lanimauxtryst.comalso, please come to our cd release party at space ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:47:00 GMT