good morning ~

(click the link / chair swing ride to listen)

My Big Breakfull of knives and ready to pop

good morning ~

(click the link / rainbow oil stain to listen)

My Big Breaki felt the cool wind of a million doors opening

good morning ~

(click the link / plane vista to listen)

My Big Breakthey beamed tremendous ease

guten morgen ~

(click the link / prague winter market to listen)

My Big Breaklow risk and high delight

good morning ~

(click the link / video feedback screen to listen)

My Big BreakI am simply riding the faders

good morning ~

(click the link / vinyl graveyard flowers to listen)

My Big Breakperhaps my party boy days are truly over

good morning ~

(click the link / rave pic to listen)

My Big Breakspending time with other people together in the dark

good morning ~

(click the link / farm at dusk to listen)

My Big Breakboy do I have the spirit

good morning ~

(click the link / shimmer lake rocks to listen)

My Big Breaksound of ice, sound of crows, sound of toads, delightful

good morning ~

(click the link / faux brick wall to listen)

My Big Breakclean and alive and shivering

good morning ~

(click the link / open east gate to listen)

My Big Breakbeer pong into your 30s

good morning ~

(click the link / flying south V to listen)

My Big Breakthe peel of their citrus in the sink

good morning ~

(click the link / sunset pool party to listen)

My Big Breakthis song is helping me feel a little bit good

good morning ~

(click the link / grey sky tugboat to listen)

My Big Breakjolly bobber

good morning ~

(click the link / Vermont sky to listen)

My Big Breakas soon as you carve a spark

good morning ~

(click the baby grand to listen)

https://soundcloud.com/benjaminseretan/pedal-steel-warping-in-the-mph/s-Wl095xrrhHS?si=d0c8911a455f4658b3d30028c9e1c250&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

today's track + writing is the final installment of "sandhills music," which is now available via Tiny Showcase, on Bandcamp, or wherever you stream music - - thank you for listening!

good morning ~

just a quick note to let you know that "sandhills music" - the multi-part project we've been publishing here this month - is now available via the Tiny Showcase website, Bandcamp, or wherever you find music ~ I do hope you enjoy:

Ben Seretansandhills music

if you like it, please consider sharing it with someone you love :)

good morning ~

(click the orb of pond to listen)

Stream a clear and common miracle by benjaminseretan | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

A clear and common miracle that alloyed metal, formed into hollow tubes, can be then cut into various pythagorean lengths, ratios and measurements, then suspended from a shared frame with a wooden dis

today's email is the 4th installment of "sandhills music," commissioned by Tiny Showcase. the whole project - including another 28 minutes of music - comes out on Tuesday in a beautiful cassette tape edition and streaming online ~ stay tuned ~ ~ ~

good morning ~

(click the sunset baby grand to listen)

Stream bench full of yellowing hymns by benjaminseretan | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

One tether after another snapped and upward you ascended, a set-free hot air balloon, smoke curling airborne from a pyre, an angel returning to heaven. These were the places, the people, and the anima

today's email is part three of "sandhills music," a series commissioned by Tiny Showcase. This project will be available in a wildly beautiful cassette tape edition soon, stay tuned.

good morning ~

(click the kaleidoscope waves to listen)

https://soundcloud.com/benjaminseretan/2-in-colors-just-a-little-too/s-GzSUp7Cqbe3?si=b06533f0f1c74200b3361049d1cdfcb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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

good morning ~

(click the kaleidoscope flowers to listen)

https://soundcloud.com/benjaminseretan/1-head-in-the-water-child/s-JLE76cGkUkP?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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.

good morning ~

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

My Big Breakheld a hair’s width from my cheek

good morning ~

(click the link / buggy sunset to listen)

My Big Breakthe generous body I've been blessed with

good morning ~

(click the link / disco ball to listen)

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

good morning ~

(click the link / empire plaza fireworks to listen)

My Big Breakborn expanded and will one day die not ready

good morning ~

(click the link / Albany underpass to listen)

My Big Breakhold hard the mop handle

good morning ~

(click the link / rockaway takeoff to listen)

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

good morning ~

(click the link / solarium scene to listen)

My Big Breakthe heft of something actual

good morning ~

(click the link to listen)

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.

good morning ~

(click the link / flash photo froggy to listen)

My Big Breaknever do nothing twice

good morning ~

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

My Big Breakgo, go, gone, poof

good morning ~

(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

good morning ~

(click the link / family of bears to listen)

My Big Breakjust a helpless little invertebrate awash on the tides

good morning ~

(click the link / bricks to listen)

My Big Breakone cracked can at a time

good morning ~

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

My Big Breakbig breaths are coming in and in and in

good morning ~

(click the link / dating show set to listen)

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

good morning ~

(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.

good morning ~

(click the link / swarming crows to listen)

My Big Breakwe grind the bones of our leisure

good morning ~

(click the link / ice palace to listen)

My Big Breaksnag a flash of it

good morning ~

(click the link / snowy crow hideout to listen)

My Big Breakthe faces in the throw

good morning ~

(click the link / frozen antenna topper to listen)

My Big Breaka holler from behind a door

good morning ~

(click the link / swarming sunset crows to listen)

My Big Breaksecret dark art happening

good morning ~

(click the curtain on the window / link to listen)

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

good morning ~

(click the guinea feather / link to listen)

My Big Breaksquinting right into the lens

good morning ~

(click the link / fabulous sunset to listen)

My Big Breaka little spear of night in their beak

good morning ~

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

My Big Breakheaven is a void between load screens

good morning ~

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

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