Meet The Big Net

Does anyone remember that game Elefun? The one with a weird blue elephant tower that rocketed plastic butterflies into the ether for children to attack with dinky nets? 

PSA: THOSE NETS ARE TOO SMALL. 

Some people understand the importance of a large apparatus to catch things. Enter The Big Net, a music project that delivers big emotion with a subdued simplicity. A little bit of drone, a little bit of country, a little bit of folk and rock, these fellas will catch ya hook, line and sinker.

I am now mixing up metaphors and childhood games, so I’m gonna hand it off to the boys. Give their words a gander below. 

A self-portrait by The Big Net

Would you rather…

have a magic lasso that would make people tell the truth or everyone believes every lie you ever told? Why?

Kevin: Truth every time! Because lying is too easy, and truth takes courage. Or a magic lasso ;)

Some questions with The Big Net

Did you ever get detention in school? If so, why?

Logan: No sir

Kevin: Not I. I have a feeling Andy's got a story tho...

Andrew: Some kids i was sitting with at lunch decided to start to start throwing my grapes across the cafeteria and i was implicated. It said “supplier of grapes” on my demerit slip.

What would you catch if you had a really big net?

 Kevin: We have one! we catch songs with it.

On your Bandcamp you refer to your project as an “An exercise in simplicity”. How did you land on the amount that you strip away? Is it difficult to balance?

Kevin: Well i think this project started with the idea of not ever having to strip anything away. We live in a time where we have access to so so much. Information, music, guitar pedals, yada yada. I think the idea was to keep things simple so that we never strayed from the source, first thought best thought if you will. So i guess we never  have to strip anything away and its actually quite easy to balance because of that.

Does this approach to making music put any strain on the creative process?

Andrew: No quite the opposite! Keeps ya moving.

Can you remember the last time you had a balloon? When was it?

Kevin: Someone special to me, upon my arrival at the airport, picked me up in a car totally filled with balloons. That was almost a year ago now i think. But i was really angry at the time so i wasn't able to appreciate the moment, but right now i wish i could go back in time!

If you could give one animal species (besides people) the ability to fly which would it be? Why?

 Andrew: Chickens because they already have wings and it’s not right that they cant

 Logan: Snakes because it'd look badass

Your upcoming LP was recorded in two days using only one room. What was that process like?

Kevin: It was really special and wonderful. I mean its kind of just how we work! It’s very much by design, and obviously there’s a long tradition of people recording this way, but i think it gets easily lost in the sauce of modern recording.

The whole idea of the big net is just to let the songs be, not force them in any direction they dont wanna go, and part of that is just capturing how they are from the start, and most often they either start in our heads or hands or in a room together, but either way the sound is us in very close proximity working it out. I don't think we could do it much differently.

The recent 7"  on saddle creek was recorded at the chamber of commerce in Ditmas (a studio), which is a really special little room. And our next record was recorded at my childhood home before my parents just sold it, so thats special to me. We definitely layed into the new record hard and we're very excited about it. Mixing it now.

Any final comments? (This is your electronic soapbox for one last answer.)

fly low and fast, keep your sticks on the ice, and see ya out there