Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Fluff And Gravy Records / Missing Piece Group
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 850019164633
Genres: Rock  
Release Date: 31 January 2025
Label: Fluff And Gravy Records / Missing Piece Group
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 850019164633
Genres: Rock  
Description
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.
Jim White and Joe Watson believe in Trey Blake. Hopefully you will too. She deserves an audience, a high-minded one in fact, one hungry for subtle revelation, one capable of appreciating the beauty of treasures unearthed in ragged, unlikely places; among the weeds, deep in the shadows of being, on the outermost fringes of existence. That’s Trey’s zone.
Tracklisting
Hugo Largo
Steve Earle
Jeffrey Foucault
Jim White
Caleb Caudle
Son of the Velvet Rat
Talk Show
Dawn Landes
Jim White
Dirty Three
Jim White
Jim White
Jim White