Jim White and George Xylouris have been friends since Jim's early days inDirty Three. Their musical connection goes back to then and led them to startXylouris White in 2013. Since then, they have released three albums andbeen touring the world. The Sisypheans is their fourth release.Jim on The Sisypheans:"As George Xylouris and I traveled around these last five years, we foundourselves talking about Sisyphus. George had a theory about Sisyphus, con-demned to climb that hill with that rock forever. George saw him carrying therock in different ways, in his left hand, behind his back, pushing it with hishead while crawling and noticing each journey the seasons changing, the grassand the insects. The meaning was clear and for George it fit with playing thepopular Cretan song "Proto Hanoti" many turns each day for his life and dis-covering it new each time . . . I found it fit in with a long held set of thoughts I'dhad, that if one concentrated activity and thought enough on one thing it wouldexpand and be a whole world. It sounded like the same idea and also with theidea of first principles, for it to be new each time: that is our job as musicians.We would talk about this as we traveled playing music. One day a waitressheard us talking, and she asked if we knew the Camus essay about Sisyphus.We didn't, but I got it in English and then we found it in Greek and it fit too.When we were playing in Louisville and working on Black Peak, we stayed ata house and saw the artwork you see on the cover, by Elsa HansenOldham . . .We'd finished the circular trilogy of Goats, Black Peak, andMother and we found ourselves making -. What we do leads us to who we are,the Sisypheans."