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Charming collection of homemade foltkronica (I'll endeavour to make that my last use of the word) experiments by Pittburgh's Derek White, ushered our way by Will Yates of Memotone, who, along with Pierre Bastien, Zach Shelfer and Juniper White, also makes a guest appearance. It's not hard to see why Yates was happy to be involved, nor why White will have wanted him to be - there seems to be a shared interest in the crossover potential of folk, jazz, fourth world electronics, ethnomusicology and modern composition. Tiki, though, is notably more lo-fi than what we've come to expect from a Memotone record, a little wonky and haphazard in ways that might remind you of the Spillage Fete axis of artists (Jam Money, Bons et al) or even The Books, while there's certainly the sense of a low-rent Penguin Cafe Orchestra in minature, White playing around with his own box of tricks not so much in search of a song but a sound. We talk here a fair bit about amateur and non-amateur music and collections like Tiki seem to express that intersection well, a crucible for both the intuitive and the learned. Which which is which here is hard to discern, and all the better for it.
FFO: Memotone, Jam Money, Bons, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Books
