On October 24, 2025, Jim White will release his second solo album, Inner Day. He has today shared a music video for his new album single, “I Don’t Do / Grand Central”, edited by Eve Sussman, and featuring a turbulent vocal duet with Zoh Amba. The spirited exchange in the video takes the pair on a journey to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station where the two commune and parry in delightful form, or as Drag City describe: “a la Belmondo/Seberg”.
Like White, the Tennessee-born free jazz prodigy Amba is no stranger to collaborations, having woodsheded with the likes of the late Peter Brotzman and worked on various projects, including The Flower School with Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt, and other groups featuring William Parker and Matthew Shipp. Often compared to Albert Ayler, her latest solo album, Sun, has seen her flagged as currently one of the most interesting artists on the US free jazz scene.
Inner Day marks a significant step for White as a solo artist, with “I Don’t Do / Grand Central” being one of two tracks on which he sings for the first time…in Amba, he seems to have found a perfect free-spirited collaborator.
Following 2024’s All Hits: Memories, this second solo effort confirms that White’s percussive intuition is fueling a new musical direction. The album features an “expressionistic set of drum kit and keyboard duets,” where White develops “meditations on his personal arcana” into expressive keyboard parts and then interacts with them on drums.
Longtime collaborator Guy Picciotto, who also worked with White on All Hits: Memories, continues to work with him on Inner Day, as White travels “further into the hypnotic relationships that they captured” on his first solo album. As filmmaker Jem Cohen described, the new record “goes where it will, quite fearlessly but never demonstrative or showy about its risk-taking”.
Inner-Day is released on October 24th, 2025 via Drag City.
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