Features the music of Kelly Hunt, Siobhan Shiels, and Seamus Harahan with Thomas McCarthy.

NR Radio EP 120

Features Joe Reyna, Jermaine Thompson, Icebitch, and Tommo.

Never Records Radio EP 122

This episode features Mark Garry, Helen Gillet, and SJ Downes.
http://www.markgarrystudio.com
http://www.helengillet.com
https://sjdownes.bandcamp.com/album/lions-path-e-p-mellowtone-records-2020

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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.

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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

In the Fall of 2010, I traveled to Lisbon with the Antagonist Movement, an East Village artist cooperative founded at the turn of the century. We went to Lisbon as guests of curator Carlos Alcobia who had invited our group to participate in a festival Called Pop Up Lisboa.
This week's episode will attempt to take you on an anthropological journey through the wonderful streets of Lisbon.

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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.

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We’re nearing the end of the Brooklyn episodes. It’s not for lack of material, I have more tracks left to play, including not one, but two Christmas tracks which is a first for Never Records, but I’m going to need to step back from the show tofocus on the Newest iteration of Never Records which launches in a week. I’m going to cap the tenth anniversary of Never Records year with a special project called Never Records: Apocalypse Anthems. I’m asking participants from past Never Records around the world to write songs, poems, and send sounds that capture the zeitgeist of this moment in time. Etched sonically forever into vinyl, for both participants and posterity, these recordings will telegraph the sounds of our time into a future which seems so fragile and unsure. I’m hoping to share these recording with you early next year.

Back to todays episode. I want to build on last week’s poetry episode and play some BAM recordings that begin to blur the lines between poetry and theater.

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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!

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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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