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Stream in colors just a little too vibrant to be naturally occurring by benjaminseretan | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

We don’t mark the time since in calendar years gone by. We don’t actively keep track of days without or however many months it’s been. What really makes it real is the summer breaking through, that’s

today's email is part 2 of "sandhills music," a series commissioned by tiny showcase ~ enjoy ~

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(click the kaleidoscope flowers to listen)

Stream head in the water, child by benjaminseretan | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

You’d spend three months riding the bus, crinkling the printer paper with your clammy fingers, route map downloaded ahead of time and inkjetted out. Late era sony discman held parallel to the bus floo

want to mention right off the bat that i'm playing with legendary sweaty DIY prog band Oneida this Saturday at No Fun in Troy, NY - - I included this last week but I neglected to include the correct link for info on the show, giving that another try now. i'll be doing a new set of music with the violinist Connor Armbruster, an extended drone that's somehow both very loud and very quiet.

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(click the link / drive-by berkshire sunset to listen)

My Big Breakheld a hair’s width from my cheek

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(click the link / buggy sunset to listen)

My Big Breakthe generous body I’ve been blessed with

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(click the link / disco ball to listen)

My Big Breakcriss cross applesauce, right in the stream of the amp

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(click the link / empire plaza fireworks to listen)

My Big Breakborn expanded and will one day die not ready

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(click the link / Albany underpass to listen)

My Big Breakhold hard the mop handle

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(click the link / rockaway takeoff to listen)

My Big BreakI speak bodies of water into a deeper, more restorative power

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(click the link / solarium scene to listen)

My Big Breakthe heft of something actual

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Ben Seretan & The EarlyIn Two

i don't have a new track for you today - ran outta time - but i do have something archival for you to hear. the record linked above - Ben Seretan & the Early's "In Two" - came out ten years and one day ago. we didn't necessarily mean for this to line up the way that it did, but I'm about to do a little run of shows with the current incarnation of the Early, so it feels appropriate to revisit this exuberant LP. you can check it out, and I wrote about it below.

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(click the link / flash photo froggy to listen)

My Big Breaknever do nothing twice

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(click the link / terrible picture of the moon to listen)

My Big Breakgo, go, gone, poof

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(click the link / distorted piggly wiggly logo to listen)

Ben SeretanLive Waves

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today's edition of the newsletter is for paying subscribers only - it includes a big cloud of piano chords, lap steel whale calls, and writing about maritime law, being underwater, and running into the Pacific Ocean.

you, too, can sign up for a paid subscription via the "sign up for a premium subscription" link at the bottom of this email - you'll get every edition of this project, one tone zone a year, plus some other goodies. you'll also keep the work going - - every bit helps.

thanks for being here, regardless - - I truly appreciate it

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(click the link / family of bears to listen)

My Big Breakjust a helpless little invertebrate awash on the tides

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(click the link / bricks to listen)

My Big Breakone cracked can at a time

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(click the link / statue in the fog to listen)

My Big Breakbig breaths are coming in and in and in

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(click the link / dating show set to listen)

My Big BreakI put on little sunglasses to further signal that the vibe had shifted

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(click the link / column of jerash to listen)

My Big Breaksun bleached sites of my western youth

What's up, MBB Premium Subscribers ~

Today marks two years since YOUTH PASTORAL came out, which is a very difficult fact for me to accept! It still feels like only yesterday I was shipping off the first copies and playing the songs for friends in a crowded room.

As the anniversary date approached, I found myself getting sad about it - where had the time gone? But instead of getting down about it and thinking about what could have been, I decided to do something fun instead. So I whipped up the below obnoxiously bright commemorative t-shirts - - they're up on Bandcamp now and you all get 30% off with the code "ypshirtdiscount" at checkout.

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(click the link / swarming crows to listen)

My Big Breakwe grind the bones of our leisure

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(click the link / ice palace to listen)

My Big Breaksnag a flash of it

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(click the link / snowy crow hideout to listen)

My Big Breakthe faces in the throw

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(click the link / frozen antenna topper to listen)

My Big Breaka holler from behind a door

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(click the link / swarming sunset crows to listen)

My Big Breaksecret dark art happening

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My Big Breaklike riotous chrysanthemum bulbs

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every few weeks this newsletter will be for premium subscribers only and today’s installment is one of those ~

paying mbb readers got a self-destructive slapper of a track and thoughts on why I love watching human faces speaking into cameras (but I won’t withhold my recommendations: “Where Are We? Our Trip Through America,” the films of Les Blank, “How to with John Wilson”).

i’m also going to try something ambitious - all paying readers will also be entitled to one personal tone zone per year

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(click the guinea feather / link to listen)

My Big Breaksquinting right into the lens

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(click the link / fabulous sunset to listen)

My Big Breaka little spear of night in their beak

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(click the link / power lines at dusk to listen)

My Big Breakheaven is a void between load screens

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(click the link / the elegant japanese maple in the rain to listen)

https://mybigbreak.bandcamp.com/track/against-a-miraculous-backdrop

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click the link / cemetery at dusk to listen - - -

My Big Breaktandem bicycle, civil twilight

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My Big Breakfeels like my house suddenly has walls

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(click the marvelous parking lot sky to listen)

My Big BreakI want to hold it all up to the light

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My Big Breakcoaxed from the walls by wild coincidence

My Big Breakbig and brave enough

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(click the beautiful afternoon light to listen)

My Big Breakmirror in the shape of my face

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today's track is partially me remembering how to play acoustic guitar

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every few weeks this newsletter will be for premium subscribers only and today’s installment is one of those!

premium mbb readers got a surprisingly crunchy weekly track, thoughts on how to shape your kitchen with your laughter, and a very special live recording from when I played a baby grand piano in a stately manor in Amsterdam last month ~

these subscriptions help me a lot and keep this project going - i would greatly appreciate your support if you like our thursdays together ~