On sale - was £11.99, now £5. "White Out is a sound terrorist collective of two that combusted onto the scene in the fall of 1995. The dynamic duo of Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal quickly established the band's reputation as New York's premier experimental project.

Armed with a unique arsenal of instruments (analog synthesizers, autoharp, flute, drums, gongs, bells, chains, etc.) White Out launched a radically new sound, the likes of which had never been heard before.

The band's open-ended invitation to other like-minded innovators to join them in their sonic conspiracy has sired an eclectic mix of collaborators. In recent years they have enjoyed playing regularly with maestro renaissance man Jim O'Rourke, with whom they have recorded two albums to date. Other comrades in instrumental arms have included Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Nels Cline, and William Winant.

White Out has put out two critically acclaimed recordings on Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Their first album Red Shift was dubbed "son-of-a-Bitches Brew" by Alternative Press. Their second release Drunken Little Mass was described by XLX8R as "an improvised intergalactic escapade into the nether regions of the universe... a universe of chaos, tension and beauty."

White Out remains steadfast in its efforts to achieve an incendiary new music, whose time has come. Don't try this at home."

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