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my first LP in FIVE YEARS comes out on Friday - it’s called ALLORA.

to both celebrate and prepare, we organized a lil online Bandcamp listening party for this evening at 7pm EST - we’ll gather in the chat, listen to the whole album through a couple of days early, and I’ll be taking any questions you might have about how these chaotic 34 minutes came to be - - lobby opens at 6:30pm I believe and then music at 7pm!

you can RSVP here:

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changing it up slightly today - still giving you something to listen to, but this time it’s other people’s music. finally updated my long dormant “vibes of late” playlist - - I also updated the now 6+ hour “shaking air” playlist - - check ‘em out below

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just writing to share a ~new song~ and a really great interview about the new record, everything, and all the everything that’s crammed into the new record - - enjoy “Climb the Ladder” - the third and final single from ALLORA and this chat between me and Ian Cohen (who reviewed Youth Pastoral for Pitchfork in 2020):

Ben Seretan Interview: 'Allora,' 'Youth Pastoral,' Italy, Leaving The Church, & More

Hear new single "Climb The Ladder" and read our interview about 'Allora,' the New York artist's "insane Italy record."

“Climb the Ladder” is available on Bandcamp (as are digital / vinyl pre-orders):

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(click the link / rave trees to listen)

My Big Breakveiled in the cheesecloth of exhaustion

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(click the link / church sign to listen)

My Big Breakstatues of goblins and gargoyles

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(click the link / texas wildflowers to listen)

My Big Breakhe's so much more vocal in his dreams

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(click the link / vestigial outlet to listen)

My Big Breakon which my choo choo chugs

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(click the link / fogged out Rockaways to listen)

My Big Breaksugar on the breeze

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today the second single from ALLORA - my forthcoming “insane Italian album” - is out for your fist-pumping listening enjoyment

“Bend” started like many songs do: hungover as hell wearily seated at an out-of-tune upright piano. In the hands of this mighty power trio, though, in those brief but crammed days we had in the studio, it turned from a headache prayer to a jubilant, threatening promise, a sunflower poem, a muscular disco catharsis

the track is premiering on Paste today and of course you can find it, stream it, and pre-order it in all the usual places.

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I don’t have the time/energy/etc. this week to pull off a new track and some writing however I did want to blast out one final earnest invitation to the thing that is my work this week -

24-HOUR DRONE happens this Saturday in Hudson, New York at a place called Basilica Hudson. I work there and after being a longtime fan of this festival I am now amazingly one of the people working to organize it and pull it off - -

It’s a deep, challenging, special music event that is quite unlike anything else - hundreds of people sprawled out on concrete slumbering as the music unfurls.

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(click the link / thumbs up toad to listen)

My Big Breakthe yoke of the yearn

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(click the link / carpeted congregation to listen)

My Big Breakthe glint of the crystal knife

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(click the link / bleeding hearts to listen)

My Big Breaka rare primordial elation

buongiorno ragazzi ~

writing to you on a Tuesday from Mexico City with some extremely cool news - - -

ALLORA - my long awaited "insane Italian record" of legend will be arriving this summer in a vivid LP edition via newly revitalized label Tiny Engines. Incredibly, it is the first "Ben Seretan" album of songs and guitar in over four years.

recorded over 72 manic hours in the hills above Venice in 2019, ALLORA is a document, an artifact, a relic of another world. It shows our intrepid, sweaty power trio (me + Nico + Dan) tearing joy free from the jaws of despair and making a tremendous racket while doing it.

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(click the link / arboreal crown to listen)

My Big Breakyes many beers crushed

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(click the link / snakes on the trail to listen)

My Big Breakat least somewhat fun and/or enjoyable

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(click the link / oil spot in the driveway to listen)

My Big Breakletting the freaks flop around in the spotlights

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(click the link / tugboat to listen)

My Big Breakthey wanna hear another heater

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(click the link / canal to listen)

My Big Breaktheir kindness makes it bloom

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(click the link / beheaded man to listen)

My Big BreakI awake to the clanging of bells

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(click the link / painted ceiling to listen)

My Big Breakfill the bellows of your belly with their mechanical wings

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(click the link / glorious river sunset to listen)

My Big Breakthe width of my smile

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(click the link / guys I saw at a museum in Montreal to listen)

My Big Breakastral projecting into flavortown

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(slick the border town / link to listen)

My Big Breakthumbs up all aglow

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today I'm very proud to present a new compilation of Thursday tracks, kind of a best of 2023. jesus was a slot machine is out now on bandcamp and everywhere else, including streaming!

Ben Seretanjesus was a slot machine (my big break 2023)

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(click the link / snowmobile tracks to listen)

My Big Breaka silly little guy on the fabric of your memory

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(click the link / naked snow angel to listen)

My Big Breakcapture and bottle the magnificent

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(click the link / twin air dancers to listen)

My Big Breakspit in its face and twirl

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(click the link / Prince tribute act to listen)

My Big Breakjesus was a slot machine

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Using today's newsletter to share the OneBeat mixtape that just went online yesterday - you can download or stream the entire thing on Bandcamp:

OneBeatOneBeat #12 Mixtape: Buried Knowledge

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(click the link / disco ball to listen)

My Big Breakeveryone kept asking me if I was a rabbi

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(click the link / Loxton painting to listen)

The EarlyLullaby

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(click the link / beautiful sunset to listen)

My Big Breakeyes as sparkling pools

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(click the link / scooter to listen)

My Big Breakhooting, goofy and spectacular

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(click the link / final resting place to listen)

My Big Breakyou're among our camaraderie and this is what it sounds like

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Briefly writing to you from the lobby of a hotel in Montgomery, Alabama to tell you about this sick live set we've just put up on Bandcamp:

Ben SeretanAt 7am (live at 24 HR DRONE), by Evans Saxl Seretan Thayer Quartet

the Evans Saxl Seretan Thayer Quartet made its world premiere at Basilica Hudson's 24 HOUR DRONE festival earlier this year and we're sharing a (nicely mastered) board recording for a good cause

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(click the link / beach cruiser to listen)

My Big Breakwobble the whirring wheels

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(click the sparkler party / link to listen)

My Big Breakthe sacred duty of locking all the doors

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(click the link / football field sunset)

My Big Breakthe wobble of the speakers kicks up the ancient dust

today's track features this morning's birds and bugs, side D of my record from 2014 played at 20% slowed, and the piano

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(click the link / dead moth to listen)

https://mybigbreak.bandcamp.com/track/oh-today-you-are-the-cool-guy
today's track is a cassette tape recording I made on my back porch, something I lovingly prepared for the interrupted set described below

playing in Kingston, NY on Monday with a new duo called Organized Sound featuring my buddy Maeve Schallert, a sick violinist / computer music head. Casual Decay and apostrophebeats are great, too, def recommend checking those links (and coming to da show!)

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(click the link / very sweaty room to listen)

https://mybigbreak.bandcamp.com/track/you-cant-grasp-the-past-brother
today's track is but a simple piano zone, recorded quietly enough as to not wake my sleeping sweetie - do you think the highway noise is, like, acceptably beautiful?

back from a very fun run of shows and immediately I have to plug other shows, such is the way of the grinder

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(click the link / Vermont sudden thunderstorm to listen)

My Big Breakencouraged to rip I ran, beaming

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(click the link / chonky yard friend to listen)

My Big Breakmake nice sounds for no one

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(click the link / fogged out foundry to listen)

My Big Breakas I write this I imagine twirling

this week's track is one of many piano recordings I made during one of the many recent thunderstorms, featuring some guest vocals by my girlfriend's 3D printers.

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(click the link / abandoned summer camp basketball hoop to listen)

My Big Breakirons glowing orange in the fire

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(click the link / lightning porch to listen)

My Big Breakprotective choreography

today's track is an excerpt of a live recording of a last minute set I played at my neighbor's house over the weekend - you can hear a fire crackling and thunder rolling overhead throughout

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(click the link / black raspberry bush to listen)

My Big BreakWhat comes after the getting of it?

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happy today to share (instead of your regular MBB email) a new piece of music from Friends Meeting, my duo with M. Geddes Gengras. Please enjoy "God Respects Us When We Work, but Loves Us When We Dance," out today from Going In:

Listen + stream here (bandcamp exclusive!):

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(click the link / sunset statue to listen)

https://mybigbreak.bandcamp.com/track/oops-all-demons

today's track is a syrupy piano zone and honestly I don't remember how I made it exactly

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(click the link / up close picture of ice cream to listen)

My Big Breakcutlass through the heart