Get Ben Caplan on vinyl ahead of release day
There is a particular satisfaction in bringing home a record before its official release. At the 63rd Mega Record & CD Fair, Ben Caplan’s new 2 Meter Sessions album offers exactly that opportunity.
The album gathers twelve performances from four sessions recorded in 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2023. Across more than a decade, Caplan appears in intimate settings and with a full band. Contributions from the Amsterdam Klezmer Band add another musical setting to the collection.
Belly of the Worm, Southbound, Beautiful and What Love Can Heartbreak Allow are among the songs, alongside Caplan’s interpretations of What a Wonderful World and Tú Sí Sabes Quererme. His voice provides the connection between recordings made years apart, while the changing arrangements give each performance its own character.
A session collection lets you follow an artist through individual encounters with a studio. The instrumentation changes, the performances belong to different moments, and details that might pass unnoticed in isolation become easier to hear together. This record leaves room to listen for those shifts across the years.