Fasba Fpel, discarding the standard modus operandi of the album cycle, has taken upon themselves the task of breaking the world record for most albums released by one artist. Each album features a different local musician from an expansive variety of genres, from folk to rock, from country to metal. Fasba Fpel invites their weekly guest to join in a roughly 45-minute impromptu jam session, complete with face-painting, an array of dazzling lighting effects, and thick haze, which is recorded and turned into an album. Quickly approaching their 50th release, the group decided to take it one step further: record and release twelve hundred albums in ten minutes.
If my math serves me correctly, that equates to two albums per second. So, how does Fasba Fpel intend to justify a split-second recording as an album? Isn’t there a length of time a recording must be to even consider it an album? After some research, I found Webster’s dictionary does not state a minimum time requirement. It only defines an album as a “business model that died in the 90’s.”
With technological developments, however, it is possible to stretch the amount of time considerably. The band intends to use the iPhone 6 slow-motion video capture, which will enable them to reap a full hour of video and audio from just one second of real time. The only issue: with Apple's strict proprietary standards, only iPhone users are allowed to enjoy it. So, tough luck for Android users, as well as Blackberry users (if such fossils still exist).
In the end, the band will be able to release six hundred hours of progressive jam music in only ten minutes. Not a bad haul, I'd say.
In other news, Royal Bliss frontman Neal Middleton was forced to create an entirely new social media profile this week. Rumor has it that he unintentionally impregnated the internet after singing in front of a computer for several minutes, ultimately causing his social media profile to spontaneously combust.
