Episode 125 features Micah McKee and the Lonesome Wild, The Non Essential Workers, and Gary Roth.
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Never Records Radio EP 125

Live recording of Shy Five celebrating the closing of the 1369 Club on Aug 13, 1988.  4 songs making up final 30 minutes of set.

Shy Five at 1369 Club Aug 13, 1988

Orange Song 20

I will not add another jeremiad about the state of the world to your bandwidth. Like you, we have suffered setbacks and inconveniences, austerity, and isolation. Like you, we are outraged by racial injustice and inequality and the divisiveness of our age. It is enough to stifle creative impulse, to find ourselves trapped in a feedback loop of negativity.

The truth is, aside from being unemployed, I feel immeasurably lucky. My son is a perpetual joy machine, my wife a constant source of humor and good nature. My family is healthy. I also have Never Records and its regenerative soundtrack. I have your sounds to bolster me when I falter.

It's been 10 years since this all began, 10 or so cities, and 1000's of artists. I never thought I'd be doing this for a decade, it seemed like a one-off art project, but I felt so inspired by you that now I think I'll do this for the rest of my life.

Send me your apocalypse anthems, your reflections on this now infamous time. It could be a song, a poem, or a sound. At the height of the pandemic the distant sounds of ambulances in New York was a constant reminder of the sick and the dead. I know many of you do not traffic in the didactic. I'm not asking for anything that you are not willing to give, but I am asking for a measure of what we are all going through. If its a cheery pop song so be it, but I ask you is this how you will mark this time 10 years from now? a hundred years from now? Your sounds are testimony. How will you testify?

Now I know many of you have songs recorded that you'd like on vinyl. This is not the time for duplication, this is the time for creation! Record on a cassette and send me the tape! Record with me live on Zencastr! If you don't have a way to record reach out to me and together we'll figure out a way! And of course if you are New York come to my studio, my sanctuary, and we'll record and cut live!

-Ted Riederer

Shy Five at 1369 Club Aug 13, 1988

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