The great improv/jam/psyche out/folk out/rock/noise duo World is playing a show for the first time in forever. I’m interviewing World’s Honey Owens and Adam Forkner (they’re answering collectively) for a story in next week’s Mercury. Here’s a little preview.

What’s it like making music with the person you love? A lot of people might be scared to do this.

That’s why there’s gotta be no rules. That way there are no weird expectations and if things in our personal life need more attention than our “band,” then no one gets bent out of shape. no pressure. no pre-conceived notions of what we are. If one of us wants to take things somewhere creatively but the other isn’t feeling it as much, there isn’t a rule or expectation that we have to go along with it anyway. We can push and pull each other as we work together, and there is a nice tension to that. Or we can just wait and not play together for a while. It’s a cool feeling to know that at each moment the other person could just walk away from what’s being built together but instead they are choosing to build something together. An absolving of traditional senses of the ego. If things were pre-concieved I could see being in a band together as being harder. We try to treat everything in our relationship in this way, with this attitude of unconditional love with no rules or exceptions. It makes you conscious of each moment, that at each moment you have a choice to be doing what you want, with who you want, how you want.

Check out World at Holocene on Wed, Feb 14.