Never Records  Radio Ep118

Episode 119 features Zach Wilkerson, Stephanie Gross, and Bethany Jacobsen with Steven Taylor.

Never Records  Radio Ep119

Features  Christina Anna, The Band With the Screaming Brain, and Connor  O'Kane. For more music from Apocalypse Anthems visit http://www.secretshape.com

Never Records Radio EP 121

Features Jenna Rae, Anna Page, and Kevin Comarda of The Self Help Tapes. Visit http://www.secretshape.com and http://www.neverrecords.net.

Never Records Radio EP123

Episode 125 features Micah McKee and the Lonesome Wild, The Non Essential Workers, and Gary Roth.
For more info visit http://www.secretshape.com

Never Records Radio EP 125

Features Dimension Bill Edwards, Clarekes in Space with Fiddle Betse, and Sarah Galvin.

http://www.secretshape.com for more info

Photo: Dimension Bill Edwards at Winfield by the amazing RHR Photo.

Never Records Radio EP126

Episode 127 features the sound piece Colored Pathways Red by Shawn Hansen which was made to accompany a joint exhibition with Laurel Sparks at the KnockDown Center that was canceled due to the pandemic.

https://shawnedwardhansen.bandcamp.com

Never Records Radio EP 127

Episode 128 features the work of Jose Luis Jacome Guerrero an artist, musician, and curator from Abato Ecuador.
Check out https://dogmacentral.wordpress.com

Never Records Radio Ep 128

Episode 129 Features the music of  Connor O'Kane, James McArthur and the Head Gardeners, and James Rose.
https://teknopeasant.bandcamp.com/album/the-raw-deal
http://jamesmcarthurmusic.co.uk
https://jamesrose.bandcamp.com

Picture of James Rose by James Rose.

Never Records Radio Ep 129

Episode 130 features music by Ellie Fallon, Timothy Lalonde, and Brent Houzenga and Meghan Hensley.

https://www.instagram.com/shelinorfallon/
http://www.houzenga.com
https://unmarried.bandcamp.com

IMAGE: A PAINTING BY BRENT HOUZENGA

Never Records Radio EP 130

EP 131 features Julie Bennet Hume, Paddy Mulloy with the Mad Mulligans, and King Hutch Downes.

visit http://www.secretshape.com for more information and links
picture by Julie Bennet Hume.

https://www.juliebennetthume.com
https://kingpussyface.bandcamp.com/album/king-pussy-face-2
https://soundcloud.com/user-429424545-591293332

Never Records Radio EP 131

Episode 132 features Dr. Mark Cranford, Hex Windham, Jonathan Toscano, and Ryan Radecki.

https://markcranford.com
https://hexwindham.bandcamp.com
https://www.jonathantoscano.com
https://www.facebook.com/ryan.radecki.98


Image by Hex Windham.

Never Records Radio Episode 132

Never Records Radio EP133

Episode 134 features music and poetry by Mark Thorp, Bobby Wattlington, Diver, and Dizzy SenZe.

http://www.littlemisswhiskeys.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142654005@N07/
https://werediver.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.instagram.com/feelingdizzy.wav/?hl=en

Never Records Radio EP134

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A special 2-hour Radio Al Hara presentation celebrating the new Never Records book.

Never Records Radio EP 135

Never Records - Ep.5

On the 7th episode, Ted Riederer explores the sounds of New Orleans. He introduces a variety of music from artists like Luke Winslow King and Lonely Lonely Knights.

Never Records- Ep. 7

On the fourth episode, Ted Riederer continues to explore more music in Amman, Jordan. He introduces a variety of music from artists like Sahar Khalifeh and Hayko.

Previously aired: 12/25/2016

Never Records Ep 4

On the 20th episode of Never Records, Ted Riederer shares more of the talented artists he recorded during his 5 week stay in new Orleans. He starts off the episode with a poem by Don Marquis and rolls right into the music. Featured music by: The Abita Stumps, The High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band and The Creole String Beans.

Never Records Ep 20

Music featured in this episode:
Mouth 4 rusty - A Letter Home
Liam Magill - Poison Arrow
Karen Barnes/The Armed 909 - Part 1 and Part 2

Episode 33

In 2013, we launched a mini tour to promote Jason Wyche’s documentary about the Never Records exhibition in Derry in Northern Ireland. Today’s episode was recorded entirely at the Belfast screening, at a Bar called the Sunflower Pub hosted by the artist Seamus Harihan. All of the recordings in this episode were recorded on a single microphone, a Electro Voice Re20.

Artists featured in this episode:
Robin Shiels - Black Moon
Barry Cullen - Untitled
Phil Hession and Seamus Harahan - The Rolling Mills of New Jersey
SJ Downes - Lay My Burden Down

Episode 44

In Derry I met Conor O’kane , one of the most important musicians I have ever known. We’ve been friends ever since. Conor traveled to Never Records London, New Orleans, and even New York City. This episode features Teknopeasant exclusively, all recorded in Derry Ireland.

Songs in this Episode:
The Teknopeasant - The New Streets of Derry
The Teknopeasant - Elderflower Wine
The Teknopeasant - Ramblin Man
The Teknopeasant - Crossroads

Episode 48: The Teknopeasant

On today's episode of Never Records we return back to Liverpool with a very special episode hosted by Andrew Ellis, who collaborated with me and kept Never Records Liverpool running and helped book shows there.

Artists Featured:
Hot Club de Paris - Shipwreck
That Fucking Tank
Kogumaza

Episode 65

I’m thrilled to be able to share recordings from the most recent Never Records which took place this past Fall in Kansas City as part of Open Spaces a new biennial celebrating the art and culture of Kansas City and beyond. It really felt like I arrived at a special moment in a city in the midst of an artistic renaissance. In contrast to last week’s episode about the unexpected sounds I found in Kansas City, this week is all about more traditional music.

Artists Featured in this Episode:
Conor O’Kane - The Ballad of William Sycamore
Kelly Hunt - Dear Sarah
Patrick Mureithi - It Will Remain

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KANSAS CITY:
This week is about another instrument which also epitomizes country music, the pedal steel. The pedal steel, like the banjo, also has an interesting origin- developed in part by slaves from West Africa. 

Artists featured:
The Breakfast Sides - Country Rain
Jenna And Martin - The Peculiar Song
Lorna Kay And The One Night Stand - You’re Running Wild

Episode 76: The Pedal Steel

KANSAS CITY: 
In Kansas City I hosted five live shows and today I’m going to play one of these gigs for you. The experimental composer, radio dj, and piano repair expert Shawn Hansen, proposed that I host the touring musician Tashi Dorji. I jumped at the chance for Tashi Dorji has an amazing reputation as an international experimental guitarist.

87: Tashi Dorji

Never Records allows me to completely immerse myself in a place like Kansas City and feel what it is truly like to live there. I can’t tell you what a gift it was to cycle familiar streets, to be a local at Los Alamos Market Y Cocina,  to run into friends at Town Topic at 2 in the morning, to got my favorite laundromat which was decorated with vinyl record decals, to share in the songs and stories of hundreds of talented people, and to feel the gratitude and warmth from everyone who came through Never Records.

There we were that Sunday evening in Kansas City. We came together to celebrate the end of a project that brought us together as friends, collaborators, and fellow artists. As I sat on the rented peacock embroidered couch I had tears in my eyes as a string of performers payed tribute to the spirit of Never Records.  I’ll never forget that night.

Artists Featured:
Jenna and Martin and friends
Closing Night Performance

Lorna Kay’s One Night Stand
Closing Night Performance

Kelly Hunt
Closing Night Performance

Conor O’Kane
Crossroads

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Two weeks ago I sent a message 150 years into the future. I made a vinyl record time capsule, comprised 17 hand cut records containing tone pictures of our time from 2017-2019 encased in a wooden box made by my cousin Michael from a slab of Silver Maple..
I placed the box between aluminum studs in the yet to be built walls of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s new Rudin Family Gallery, an exhibition space attached to the Harvey Theater in downtown Brooklyn.

Upon completion of the gallery a plaque will be hung inside the lobby of the theater that reads, “This vinyl record time capsule, titled Persistent Echoes uses tone pictures to capture and frame a moment in our lives that we all share, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Through conscientiously selected and recorded sounds, with selected sounds from the artist’s life and the BAM Hamm archives, Riederer believes he can telegraph a crystallization of this moment to future generations. Placed in the Rudin Family Gallery’s wall, Persistent Echoes becomes a time capsule for a century and beyond. "

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As you’ve probably heard me state before Never Records is not about music. Sure music is often the currency of sound, but I’m much more interested in the fellowship of recording and the teaching of the transcendental science of record cutting. To this end, Never Records is really a scripted performance by me in which I lead participants on a guided meditation of sound. 

Some of my favorite Never Records tracks aren’t songs: the architect Elvis Achepol in Kansas City giving directions to the prairie, the cosmologist Paul Malone giving a lecture about the electric universe in London, BJ Nilson’s piezo electric recording of the lathe cutting itself, the evening call  to prayer recorded at the ruins of a citadel in the center of Amman to name a few.

Today we’re going to focus on poets and we’re going to begin with Brooklyn Poets.

Never Records 113

Beloved Never Records family,

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 over the internet! 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 in New York come to my studio, my sanctuary, and we'll record and cut live!

Never Records Radio Episode 116

Never Records is a combination recording studio and record shop, setting up in locales throughout the world. The sole proprietor, interior decorator, and engineer is New York-based artist Ted Riederer. Inspired by his own redemptive education at a young age inside the walls of a local record store in Rockville, Maryland as well as the field recording projects of Alan Lomax, Riederer devised his unique community art installation in the early part of this century and has been replicating it with regional variations throughout the world since 2010.

Performers from a locale sign up for recording sessions ahead of time, with no auditions necessary. Riederer usually offers three hour sessions, during which he mixes on the fly and cuts vinyl right in front of the artist’s eyes once both are satisfied with a particular take. The recordings are free to the artist, the sessions are open to the public, and you can’t buy anything you see. Ted hasn’t lowered prices by cutting out the middleman. He is the middleman. He is not a vertical operation; he is an elliptical one, a constant feedback loop supplying its own demand. Still, everyone takes something home, even if it’s the barest speck of record shop camaraderie inadvertently inhaled.
-Ryan Sparks, New Orleans

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