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Never Sorry, Katie & The Bass Drums & Modifi @ The Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN – 3.23.2012
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Slept In – 1.15.2012 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, R.J. Hill & Dane Hill]
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“Moments”
“Archway”
“Valley Call”
Such is the tendency for us to put out these particularly brief, but pointed, sessions every time we skip up to the next evolution of the Never Sorry project. It’s always a loose view of something vaguely resembling the next evolution of our sound.
“Moments” has popped up a few time in sessions past. This is easily the best version we had done at this point. “Archway” is a beat oriented song that we’re still developing. The beat is recycled from Flashmob, which was recycled from my album, Part 3. “Valley Call” was a true improvisation, and a beautiful little end to the session.
Dane Hill – bass
R.J. Hill – omnichord, auxiliary percussion
Arrison Kirby – guitar, keys, vocals
Taurean Beat – 1.8.2012 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, R.J. Hill, Dane Hill & Carissa Stolting]
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“Afraid of the Ghost”
“House of Satan”
“Blue”
“Contemplating the Harvest”
“Starve It Out and Never Go Hungry”
“She” (Green Day cover)
“Satan Reprise”
“Dislodged Mystery Trinket”
A new year had just begun, so it was time to get back on the Never Sorry train. We wanted to return to live drums for our next phase. On this day, the lovely Taurus, Carissa Stolting (Jackboots) stopped by to fill that role.
We’ve been eager to move forward with new material, but decided to stick with mostly older songs since there was someone new in our midst and we had been rusty, ourselves. (The holidays do that to you.) In these cases, we sometimes let Carissa start with the beat and the other three of us would play the song around her.
There’s an impromptu Green Day cover, of all things, as well as some extensive but interesting improvisational jams. One of these, “Satan Reprise,” is an instrumental re-imagining of “House of Satan.” Much more upbeat, with traces of joy.
Arrison Kirby – vocals, guitar, keys
RJ. Hill – vocals, omnichord, auxiliary percussion
Dane Hill – bass, vocals
Carissa Stolting – drums
“Cute Little Echo” – Never Sorry
This version of “Cute Little Echo” is from the immediately aforementioned Pilot Light Rehearsal session. The video was recorded the day after Moogfest 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hence the clipping of the wrist bands, and also Tapeface, my carefully crafted Halloween costume.
I feel this video gives insight into Tapeface’s real life. Just because he has tape on his face, doesn’t mean he doesn’t practice good hygiene. It does apparently make him emotional, though.
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Pilot Light Rehearsal – 10.19.2011 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, R.J. Hill & Dane Hill]
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photo by Maurita Roman
“Starve it Out and Never Go Hungry”
“Blue”
“Laundry”
“Cute Little Echo”
“The Finger Wag”
“Michael in the War”
“House of Satan”
“Dayman” (Charlie Day)
Dane Hill – bass, vocals
Rachel Jae – omnichord, vocals
Arrison Kirby – keys, beats, vocals
Thank you for attending!
photo by Maurita Roman
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Pilot Light for Kishi Bashi and Never Sorry last Thursday. I’m really really glad that new people were exposed to Kishi Bashi’s music. And thanks for sticking around for Never Sorry, also.
If anyone has pictures or video they would like to share, holla at me. You can check out some video of the Kishi Bashi set on Maurita Roman’s YouTube account.
There is a massive interchange of energy going on in America right now. Why fight it?
Never Sorry & Kishi Bashi @ The Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN – 10.20.2011
Never Sorry will be full of strange surprises as ever it has been.
Please listen to the Room for Dream EP by Kishi Bashi by clicking here.
Consolation Prize – 7.13.2011 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, R.J. Hill & Dane Hill]
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“The Suffer Dance”
“Don’t”
“Blue”
“Moments”
I think Consolation Prize is a fitting name for this session in so many ways. To be a consolation prize, one must serve as a remnant of something that never was. Consolation prizes, by name, are there to soften the blow when you ruin your chances of winning. So here is a tender, melancholy set to help cope with losing.
This is Never Sorry with no Katie or Megan. The funerary softness celebrates that (surely temporary) loss for sure. The set also came on the heels of a dumb break up I had and there is plenty of therapy, musical and otherwise, being passed down from the Hills to me. “Don’t” would be the most evident of this, with Dane making up the lyrics as we went.
The beat oriented songs act as bookstands around the soft inside of the session. “Moments” was written precisely about that aforementioned break up. The vocals are iffy at times as I try to sort through them, but whatever. Some cathartic life force runs through this session all the same, as we dive deeper into this fresh minimalism.
Dane Hill – bass, glockenspiel, vocals
Rachel Jae – auxillary percussion, vocals
Arrison Kirby – guitar, beats, programming, keys, vocals
Beach Business – 6.12.2011 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, Katie Collins, Megan Driscoll, Rachel Jae & Dane Hill]
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“Laundry”
“Succumb When it Counts”
“Michael in the War”
“Moon Rest Over Trees”
“Karma Chameleon” (Culture Club)
This was our last Never Sorry session before Katie moved to New York and Megan to Ohio. You’d think it would be epically emotional or something, but to me it sounds like beach music, hence the title. It’s a good laid back feel with moments of appropriate tension.
These are possibly the best versions of “Laundry” and “Michael in the War” recorded so far. We used beats on both of them, allowing Dane to jump on the bass. I’m particularly fond of the break down in “Michael.”
“Moon Rest Over Trees” was our opening jam, but I felt it better positioned where it is in the line up. The other improvisational piece is “Succumb When it Counts” and it features me on drums, Dane on guitar and Katie on the drums. These are also the same play positions used for the session closure, a slowed down cover of Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon.” This cover was Dane’s idea. He lead us through it and also sang. I like it a million billion times better than the original.
Katie Collins – omnichord, bass
Megan Driscoll – flute, tambourine, vocals
Dane Hill – drums, bass, guitar, vocals
Rachel Jae – auxillary percussion, vocals
Arrison Kirby – guitar, beats, drums, vocals
Residual Modes – 5.18.2011 – Never Sorry [Arrison Kirby, Katie Collins, Megan Driscoll, Rachel Jae, Dane Hill & Samuel Williams]
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“Really Horrible Shit is Popular”
“Finite Mass”
“Us”
“Laundry”
“Via Chicago” (Wilco cover)
This session is filthy. It plugs on, unapologetic and held together only by the semen everyone ejaculated from their instruments. There is unfamiliar territory here, taken from the deepest depths of feeling through the darkness, up to epic highs of triumph and grandeur.
“Finite Mass” was the warm up jam this session, but I didn’t feel it was the best way to introduce the session. “Really Horrible Shit is Popular” seemed much more in-one’s-face and abrasive. A better way to begin sometimes…definitely this case.
Yeah. We cover Wilco at the end. The vocals are terrible. I couldn’t really remember the vocal nuances for shit and barely knew the lyrics. So if you can put up with that karaoke bullshit, you’ll find some very nice music underneath, most of the time.
Katie Collins – omnichord, keys, ukulele
Megan Driscoll – flute
Dane Hill – drums
Rachel Jae – auxillary percussion
Arrison Kirby – guitar, keys, vocals
Samuel Williams – banjo