When someone signs up for a Never Records session they get a brief list of frequently asked questions. This document explains a bit about the project, lists available equipment, as well as session guidelines which include a 10-minute time limit for the performance to be recorded. When it comes to art rules are made to be broken, but for the most part I restrict the length of the recordings to be cut to vinyl to 10 minutes or less. It’s a formula that’s worked for over 500 recordings across three continents.
As you can imagine, participants approach this time limit in many different ways. Some record a 3-minute pop song and leave it at that, others try to sneak in a second song by adding a musical bridge between compositions(you can’t fool me), and others just ignore the time limit altogether which is quite rare.
We’re going to do something a little different on today’s episode and feature two tracks from Never Records BAM that are longer improvisations that I’m going to play back to back so we’ll get a nice long set of music. I’ll limit commentary to before and after. Both tracks are instrumentals one acoustic one electric and I think you’ll agree they sound amazing together.
