By Nicholas Roberts of And the Giraffe.
24HR Records, a Nashville-based recording project, places 3 musicians who have never met before into a studio for a 24 hour marathon session to write, produce, and record 3 brand new songs for an EP. The team of musicians, producers, and a camera crew pack into a studio at the start of each session and work through the day and night to capture the creative process of strangers making music together.
Starting at noon, the doors of the studio swing open and the musicians meet each other for the first time. What they do next is up to them. A full tracking room, mixing room, and walls of instruments are available to the musicians to use however they’d like to shape their episode of 24HR Records.
Although relatively new, 24HR Records has already seen plenty of Nashville’s musical elite come through the studio (members of Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes, Joseph Lemay, Brooke Waggoner). Started in 2012 by Michael Hardesty and Stephen Turney, the project focuses on the spontaneity of musical creation often ignored in modern record making. By forcing a deadline, the musicians have to think quickly, live with mistakes, and appreciate the process of the craft – a head-nod to the recording processes of the 60’s and 70’s.
The latest installment, an episode called “Taro,” features Dan Snyder (Paper Lights), Nicholas Roberts (And the Giraffe), and Thomas Doeve (INTL). The episode was filmed at the newly opened 1092 Studios in Nashville and can be seen below:
24HR Records || Taro
