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3garcons · 1 year

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Ben Seretan at Boss Crowley Album release party Rare Form Sat Nov 2022

first and 10 edition

#ben seretan #super dark #rare form #downtown troy

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dustedmagazine · 2 years

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Listed: Lake Mary

An avid outdoorsperson, Chaz Prymek releases his musical output under the name Lake Mary in honor of the eponymous reservoir in Big Cottonwood Canyon, located in his birth state of Utah. Being somewhat of a nomad, he has called many American states home, and currently resides in Missouri. Over the course of his travels, Prymek has collected friends and collaborators, such that Lake Mary evolved from a solo undertaking into a loose collective of like-minded souls. On Slow Grass, he enlisted a trio of his closest musical companions to honor the life of his recently departed dog, Favorite. In a recent review, Bryon Hayes commented that the record was “[a] graceful and endearing suite, it is a testament to the bond between human and dog, a rumination on the life of a loved one.” For this edition of Listed, Prymek explores the songs and poems that inspire him to reflect on life, love, and loss.

Airport People “From Morning no. 1”

from nine mornings by airport people

There is a quiet revolution happening of more and more people putting sincerity into music again, I know it's always been there, in the way that everything has always been everything, but it seems like either it's becoming easier to find, or maybe I'm softening as I age, or sincerity is in, either way... You can hear the heart of Leon in this album, it feels so sincere to me and found me at the perfect time. I didn't know I needed this album so I could do a lot of healing work, it made space for me to grow into the changes that were happening in my life at the time, it quickly became one of my all time favorite and deeply important records. I got to play with them over this summer and I swear to you the whole room turned shades of violet and yellows and red, like the sun was rising right inside that venue.

Quelle Chris “Ain't Always Living”

DEATHFAME by Quelle Chris

This song stayed on in my car for months this summer. It made its way into my world at just the right time. Learning to love yourself and develop self-worth is an epic journey, especially under capitalism. With what little time we have between work and sleep, we try our best to love and accept love, it doesn't always stick though. We all go through so much in our home lives, we fall in love, we make new friends, we end relationships, we die, our friends die, lose jobs, we protest, we make art we want to share with the world, we plant gardens, we build communities, we cook for our friends and families, we sing songs, we dance, we exhaust ourselves trying to be alive outside work. This song became a constant reminder to look around at what and who is in my life, and to cherish that while it's here.

Ben Seretan “Light Leaks”

Ben Seretan by Ben Seretan

Ben has made so much music since this came out. All of it is mind blowing and life affirming. However, this song has got me through so many big transitions in my life, over and over. I've learned time and time again from Ben's music, that the heart has to break to let the light in. That's what this song can do, break your heart and put it back together again. This track is a part of me now.

I got to sing this song with him at a show in Brooklyn and sobbed the whole time.

Vera Jean “New Sleep”

Door 1995 by Louise DeCramer

Sometimes you meet someone once who sticks with you forever. They make their way into your heart quickly and softly, and they make a home there. Sometimes you don't even notice until it's already happened. It's not anyone's purposeful doing, it's not anyone's fault or intent. It's just one of those things. Vera Jean (Louise) has done just that. These albums have soundtracked many long drives back from the farm or swimming holes, the car is silent and grinning with exhaustion...

There is a different kind of way joy hits when you've lost.

Maya Weeks “Tethers”

Tethers by Maya Weeks

This album took me back to when I lived on the north coast. It feels like the walk to the coast, over shrubs and between conifers and pillows of fog, revealing a cold, wild and welcoming ocean. Exploring tide pools, poking at urchins, skipping rocks and harvesting kelp and mussels for dinner. It floored me when I first heard it, still does.

Ross Gay & Bon Iver “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude”

Dilate Your Heart by Ross Gay

I haven't listened to this without weeping.

What I Didn’t Know Before by Ada Limón

was how horses simply give birth to other

horses. Not a baby by any means, not

a creature of liminal spaces, but already

a four-legged beast hellbent on walking,

scrambling after the mother. A horse gives way

to another horse and then suddenly there are

two horses, just like that. That’s how I loved you.

You, off the long train from Red Bank carrying

a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two

computers swinging in it unwieldily at your

side. I remember we broke into laughter

when we saw each other. What was between

us wasn’t a fragile thing to be coddled, cooed

over. It came out fully formed, ready to run.

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This poem has been read back and forth between myself and some friends as a way to say I'm thinking of you or taking you with me.

Reconocimiento // Acknowledgement by Alejandra Pizarnik

Tu haces el silencio de las lilas que aletean

en mi tragedia del viento en el corazón.

Tu hiciste de mi vida un cuento para niños

en donde naufragios y muertes

son pretextos de ceremonias adorables

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You made the silence of the lilacs fluttering

in the tragedy of wind that is in my heart.

You turned my life into a children's tale

where shipwrecks and death

are an excuse for a beloved ceremonies.

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When I read this once, it clicked and this book opened up to me. I read this poem aloud to Emma in the park the other day and it silenced us both. I could write many records about what this paints in my head.

People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

No people are uninteresting.

Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.

Nothing in them is not particular,

and planet is dissimilar from planet.

And if a man lived in obscurity

making his friends in that obscurity

obscurity is not uninteresting.

To each his world is private,

and in that world one excellent minute.

And in that world one tragic minute.

These are private.

In any man who dies there dies with him

his first snow and kiss and fight.

It goes with him.

There are left books and bridges

and painted canvas and machinery.

Whose fate is to survive.

But what has gone is also not nothing:

by the rule of the game something has gone.

Not people die but worlds die in them.

Whom we knew as faulty, the earth’s creatures

Of whom, essentially, what did we know?

Brother of a brother? Friend of friends?

Lover of lover?

We who knew our fathers

in everything, in nothing.

They perish. They cannot be brought back.

The secret worlds are not regenerated.

And every time again and again

I make my lament against destruction.

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I have been thinking about this poem for years. You can think you know most things about somebody, until their funeral. As you watch people you've never met come and say how much this same person meant to them, stories you've never heard, then sharing making friends because you have lived on two sides of the same world. You can start to see one world fade and a new one begin in the light still shining from this person's universe that was and is much bigger than you ever expected.

Mary Oliver— Dog Songs

“You may not agree, you may not care, but

if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world,

and there are plenty,

very near the top of the list is this one:

dogs without leashes.”

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This book is so special to me. I would read this aloud to my pup for years before she passed away.

Thank ya'll for having me.

I hope someone can find something in here to resonate with.

#listed #dusted magazine #lake mary #chaz prymek #slow grass #airport people #quelle chris #ben seretan #vera jean #maya weeks #ross gay #bon iver #ada limon #Alejandra Pizarnik #Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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jakobdodson · 1 year

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2022 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2022. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2022

Blue Rev - Alvvays

Banger after banger after banger on here!

Favorite Songs:

After The Earthquake

Tile By Tile

Belinda Says

Bored In Bristol

A Light For Attracting Attention - The Smile

This is essentially a Radiohead album with a jazzy twist. Accordingly, it belongs here, among my favorites of the year.

Favorite Songs:

Speech Bubbles

Open The Floodgates

Free In The Knowledge

Skirting On The Surface

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You - Big Thief

My most anticipated release of the year that easily surpassed my highest expectations. It explodes into several beautifully creative directions and where it could overwhelm with its ambition it tends to endear and make you smile.

Favorite Songs:

Change

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

Flower of Blood

Red Moon

Promise Is a Pendulum

12,000 Lines

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Runners Up

Dawn FM - The Weeknd

Once Twice Melody - Beach House

LABYRINTHITIS - Destroyer

Ice, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Dripfield - Goose

Music for Animals - Nils Frahm

Liked It

Misadventures of Doomscroller - Dawes

I’m Not Sorry, I’m Just Being Me - King Hannah

Good and Green Again - Jake Xerxes Fussell

Hell on Church Street - Punch Brothers

Time Skiffs - Animal Collective

Ants from Up There - Black Country, New Road

Humble Quest - Maren Morris

The Joy of Music - Ben Rector

The Jacket - Widowspeak

Underground Complex No. 1 - Typhoon

Fear of the Dawn - Jack White

Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Giving The World Away - Hatchie

Break Me Open - S. Carey

Romeo & Juliet - Ryan Adams

One is One - Delta Spirit

Two Ribbons - Let’s Eat Grandma

Big Time - Angel Olsen

Preacher’s Daughter - Ethel Cain

Cruel Country - Wilco

The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen

Surrender - Maggie Rogers

Teeth Marks - S.G. Goodman

Take It Like A Man - Amanda Shires

Sons Of - Sam Prekop & John McEntire

Chloe and the Next 20th Century - Father John Misty

Reggae Film Star - Damian Jurado

Freakout/Release - Hot Chip

Will Of The People - Muse

WE - Arcade Fire

Birds In The Ceiling - John Moreland

Profound Mysteries II - Röyksopp

sandhills music - Ben Seretan

The Blue EP - MORE&MORE

I’m Sweating All the Time - Wormy

Heartmind - Cass McCombs

The Liar - John Fullbright

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Changes - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Rolling Golden Holy - Bonny Light Horseman

Into the Blue - Broken Bells

I Walked With You a Ways - Plains

Laminated Denim - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

ILYSM - Wild Pink

Being Funny in a Foreign Language - The 1975

And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood

Schvitz - Vulfpeck

MUNA - MUNA

Cowboy Ballads, Pt. 1 - Jesse Tabish

Drew Winn - Drew Winn

Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? - Tyler Childers

Blue Skies - Dehd

Harry’s House - Harry Styles

Ali - Vieux Farka & Khruangbin

Meh

Quitters - Christian Lee Huston

Chris - Ryan Adams

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar

Plonk - Huerco S.

Palomino - First Aid Kit

Alpha Zulu - Phoenix

God Save the Animals - Alex G

No Rules Sandy - Sylvan Esso

Not from 2022

Ram - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

Plum - Widowspeak

Tago Mago - CAN

Ege Bamyasi - CAN

Night Moves - Bob Seger

Dots & Loops - Stereolab

Haven’t Listened Yet...

ForeverEverAndEverNoMore - Brian Eno

Empire Central - Snarky Puppy

Björk - Fossora

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

FM - Ryan Adams

Entering Heaven Alive - Jack White

V I N C E N T - FKJ

Inside Problems - Andrew Bird

Kumoyo Island - Kikagaku Moyo

Dropout Boogie - The Black Keys

Headful of Sugar - Sunflower Bean

Everything Was Beautiful - Spritualized

Electricity- Ibibio Sound Machine

(watch my moves) - Kurt Vile

You Belong There - Daniel Rossen

El Mirador - Calexico

Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Things Are Great - Band of Horses

caroline - caroline

Pompeii - Cate Le Bon

The Dream - alt-j

Anaïs Mitchell - Anaïs Mitchell

Laurel Hell - Mitski

Silver Sash - Wovenhand

Concerts Attended in 2022:

The War on Drugs - Cains Ballroom - Tulsa, OK - 6/4/22

John Fullbright - Fassler Hall - Tulsa, OK - 10/2/22

Spoon - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Goose - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Kacey Musgraves - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX - 10/9/22

Luke Combs - Paycom Center - Oklahoma City, OK - 12/9/22

The Book of Mormon - Eugene O’Neill Theatre - New York, NY - 12/21/22

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

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Happy Listening!

Jake

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snackpointcharlie · 6 months

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We here at Snackpoint Charlie are heartsick over what’s happening in the mideast, and faced with the prospect of making radio, we make no claims about the music we play holding greater answers than anything else. All we can promise is that we’ll do our best to navigate a peaceful path through this landscape of chaos, turmoil and pain. The full document of this week’s meltdown-a-thon has been fully ingested by WGXC’s patented Podcast-O-Matic™ technology and available for download at the link below:

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 125 - 2023.10.18 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/5jbc6p [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Andrzej Załęski - “Białowieża Forest: The Daytime 2” from DEER RUT TIME https://saamleng.bandcamp.com/album/deer-rut-time-2

2) Brian Dewan, Liverpool Cathedral Bell Ringers - “Split Staircase” from RINGING AT THE SPEED OF PRAYER https://briandewan.bandcamp.com/album/ringing-at-the-speed-of-prayer

3) TENGGER - “Twilight” from TENGGER https://tenggertengger.bandcamp.com/album/tengger

4) Billy Gomberg - “9:43” from A CHANGED MEANING https://billygomberg.bandcamp.com/album/a-changed-meaning

5) Blood Neon - “Mosaic X” from THE UNCANNY TIMES https://hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-uncanny-times

6) TENGGER - “Tosa” from SHIKOKU https://tengger.bandcamp.com/album/shikoku

(underbed:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Fsckingmajor”

7) Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy - “You Will Soon Discover How Truly Fortunate You Really Are.” from EPIC JAMMERS AND FORTUNATE LITTLE DITTIES https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/epic-jammers-and-fortunate-little-ditties

8) Alice Coltrane - “Keshava Murahara” from THE ECSTATIC MUSIC OF ALICE COLTRANE - TURIYASANGITANANDA https://alicecoltrane.bandcamp.com/album/world-sprituality-classics-1-the-ecstatic-music-of-alice-coltrane-turiyasangitananda

9) Cerberus Shoal - “Yes Sir, No Sir” from CRASH MY MOON YACHT – DELUXE EXPANDED EDITION https://cerberusshoal.bandcamp.com/album/crash-my-moon-yacht-deluxe-expanded-edition

10) Chikh Ayyad Ou Haddou - “Aili ya Mali” from MUSIC OF MOROCCO: RECORDED BY PAUL BOWLES, 1959 https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-morocco-recorded-by-paul-bowles-1959

11) Aine O'Dwyer - “The Feast of Fools” from MUSIC FOR CHURCH CLEANERS VOL I & II https://mie.limitedrun.com/products/537633-aine-odwyer-music-for-church-cleaners-vol-i-and-ii-2lp

12) Pierre Henry - “Peaceful Deities” from LE VOYAGE - THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY FROM DEATH TO LIFE : AN ELECTRONIC SCORE BASED ON THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD https://www.discogs.com/master/45397-Pierre-Henry-Le-Voyage-DApr%C3%A8s-Le-Livre-Des-Morts-Tib%C3%A9tain

13) Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - “Colour” from INVENTIONS FOR RADIO: THE DREAMS https://ubu.com/sound/derbyshire.html https://www.discogs.com/Delia-Derbyshire-Barry-Bermange-Inventions-For-Radio-The-Dreams/master/1051598

14) Sir Richard Bishop - “Graviton Polarity Generator” from GRAVITON POLARITY GENERATOR https://www.discogs.com/release/2598857-Sir-Richard-Bishop-Graviton-Polarity-Generator

15) Loftus - “Bell and Hammer” from LOFTUS https://califonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/loftus

16) Songs: Ohia - “Sweet Release” from BURLAP PALACE: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND https://www.discogs.com/release/1785427-Various-Burlap-Palace-A-Tribute-To-The-Muscle-Shoals-Sound

17) Ben Seretan - “Rain and Cicadas” from CICADA WAVES https://benseretan.bandcamp.com/album/cicada-waves

18) Allen Ravenstine - “5@28” from ELECTRON MUSIC https://allen-ravenstine.bandcamp.com/album/electron-music

19) David Lynch - “The High Night Walk” from EXPERIMENTS https://www.discogs.com/release/3687313-David-Lynch-The-High-Night-Walk

20) Sunn O))) & Boris - “Fried Eagle Mind” from ALTAR https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/altar-3

21) Yann Tiersen - “Tribulations” from LAGNIAPPE SESSION https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/02/28/the-lagniappe-sessions-yann-tiersen/

22) Hy Maya - “Dance of the Electromagnetic (A Space Event In Time)” from THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND & COSMIC LANGUAGE https://www.discogs.com/master/1273743-Hy-Maya-The-Mysticism-Of-Sound-Cosmic-Language

23) Hanna Tuulikki - “Live on Canna (on the cliffs)” from AWAY WITH THE BIRDS https://hannatuulikki.bandcamp.com/album/away-with-the-birds

24) Pacific Sounds - “Among the Ironwoods, Kuliʻouʻou, O‘ahu” from ALOHA ‘AINA, VOLUME 7: FIELD RECORDINGS OF HAWAII https://pacificsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aloha-aina-volume-7-field-recordings-of-hawaii

25) 4 Mars - “Hobalayeey Nabadu! (Hello Peace!)” from SUPER SOMALI SOUNDS FROM THE GULF OF TADJOURA (DJIBOUTI ARCHIVES VOL. 1) https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/djibouti-archives-vol-1-super-somali-sounds-from-the-gulf-of-tadjoura

#snackpointcharlieradio #wgxc #wgxcradio #hellsdonuthouse #communityradio #freeformradio #snackpointcharliewgxc #hudsonny #globalmusic #worldmusic #radioforopenears #outernational #hudsonvalley #globalbeat

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ursaminorjim · 10 months

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"Cottonwood tree" - Ben Seretan, Bowl of Plums

#song that heaven allows #Bandcamp

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badculturefilms · 1 year

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Ben Seretan at Super Dark Days at Rare Form 11/19/22 #superdarkcollective #superdarkdays #rareformbrewing #bosscrowleyalbumrelease #pineboys #rabidchildren #houseoftomorrow #stevehammond #nathanmeltz #benseretan #bosscrowley (at Rare Form Brewing Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMJ49op-s-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#superdarkcollective #superdarkdays #rareformbrewing #bosscrowleyalbumrelease #pineboys #rabidchildren #houseoftomorrow #stevehammond #nathanmeltz #benseretan #bosscrowley

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doomandgloomfromthetomb · 3 years

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Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves

Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday yesterday interrupted things ... We now return you to your regular Bandcamp Monday programming — on a Tuesday! What difference does it make. So, here’s Ben Seretan’s ravishing Cicada Waves, a collection of slow-motion piano instrumentals accompanied by thousands of singing cicadas (along with other natural sounds: birds, thunder, rain, etc.). Like Harold Budd getting lost in the Appalachians. There’s a moment towards the end where Seretan spontaneously duets with a nearby songbird and it’s one of the most magical things you’ll hear this (or any) year.

#ben seretan #bandcamp monday

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sawdustandgin · 3 years

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Best Albums of 2020: 11–35

PART TWO

ordered alphabetically

Madeline Kenney Sucker's Lunch

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Carpark Records · Madeline Kenney - Sucker

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KNIGHTSTOWN Soul Liberties

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KNIGHTSTOWN · Ochre Eyes

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Mary Lattimore Silver Ladders

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ghostly · Mary Lattimore - Hello From the Edge of the Earth

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Lomelda Hannah

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Hannah by Lomelda

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Bartosz Ługowski Mir

youtube

Bartosz Ługowski · Koniec

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Gia Margaret Mia Gargaret

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Gia Margaret · for Zoya in China

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Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music

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Tom Misch · Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Lift Off (feat. Rocco Palladino)

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OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost

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Fantasize Your Ghost by OHMME

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Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song

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Kelly Lee Owens · On

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Porridge Radio Every Bad

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Porridge Radio · Give/Take

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Quarterly Pomegranate

youtube

Pomegranate by Quarterly

Quarterly | order Pomegranate | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp

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Ben Seretan Youth Pastoral

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benjaminseretan · Am I Doing Right By You

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Bartees Strange Live Forever

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Bartees Strange · Kelly Rowland

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Told Slant Point the Flashlight and Walk

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Point The Flashlight and Walk by Told Slant

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White Boy Scream BAKUNAWA

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WHITE BOY SCREAM · Bituing (feat. Rhea Fowler)

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Yalc123 Yalc Nitsua Mailliw

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Yalc Nitsua Mailliw by Yalc123

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Ziemba True Romantic

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True Romantic by Ziemba

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half-a-tiger · 4 years

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BEN SERETAN - “Shadow”, off his latest album ‘Youth Pastoral’ out now via Whatever’s Clever.

Shot on the beach at the Rockaways at dawn.

Produced/Directed by KAYA ~ Kat DeNeve + Yael Nachajon

DoP - Kat DeNeve

Choreographer/Dancer - Yael Nachajon

#ben seretan #music video #2020 #whatever’s clever #kaya #Kat DeNeve #yael nachajon #beach #sea side #mirror #indie folk #singer songwriter

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theparanoid · 2 years

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Ben Seretan - Rain And Cicadas

Album: Cicada Waves (2021)

[Field Recording, Experimental, Ambient, Drone, Minimal]

#music #experimental #ambient #drone #minimal #bandcamp #Youtube #field recording

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bandcampsnoop · 6 years

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4/7/18.

I was reading an email announcement from Eamon Fogarty about an upcoming concert of his. He is playing with Mike Wexler whom he referred to as a “picking artist”. Over the past several years, my affinity for this has grown. I didn’t have to snoop all that much. three:four records out of Switzerland released “Syntropy” back in December 2016. The songs are great, although not all of them feature prominent fingerpicking as I expected. These are just some great songs that recall the work of Mojave 3, or Leo Kottke. The hushed vocals and percussion also remind me of the quieter moments of Yo La Tengo and Ben Seretan.

Mike Wexler is from Brooklyn and does have other releases, but this is the only one on three:four.

#Mike Wexler #Brooklyn #three:four records #Eamon Fogarty #Mojave 3 #Leo Kottke #Yo La Tengo #Ben Seretan

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3garcons · 2 years

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Ben Seretan second set at Super Dark Thursday No Fun

first and 10 edition

#ben seretan #no fun #super dark #downtown troy

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13melekradyo · 3 years

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Güncel modern kompozisyon kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent modern composition recordings. Download.

01 – Icebreaker & Anna Meredith – Nautilus 02 – Viktor Orri Árnason – Maiden 03 – Rose Riebl – Two States Of Mind 04 – John Luther Adams – The Circle Of Winds 05 – Steve Von Till – The Emptiness Swallows Us All 06 – Naoko Sakata – Improvisation3 07 – Ben Seretan – 11 PM Sudden Thunderstorm 08 – Nainita Desai – Drowning In A Sea Of Words 09 – Pêtr Aleksänder – Fireworks In G

#modern kompozisyon #modern composition #yeni #new

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jakobdodson · 2 years

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2021 in Music

Here is a note about the music I listened to in 2021. I hope you enjoy it!

Favorite Albums of 2021

Promises - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

I could cheese it up and try to articulate something about how Promises can imbue wonder into the ordinary and blah blah blah... but I like the way this review from Paste puts it:

“Promises is the kind of album that can rearrange the molecules in the room.”

Word.

I remember studying for the LSAT one Saturday morning earlier this year and deciding to put this one on. I thought it was boring. “Mmm... nice background music!”, or so I thought.

By Movement 6, I had a thousand yard stare and onset existential crisis.

How often do I give my full attention to really listening? (and not just to music...) How often is it taken from me?

Pretty rare, in my experience. For better or for worse.

Anyway, shoutout to this one for inflicting irreparable damage to my LSAT score!

Favorite Songs:

Movement 6

Movement 7

Movement 8

I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War On Drugs

Sometimes something finds you at the right moment; a relationship, a nice view, the peanut butter bacon burger at Fat Guys...

I spun this one over and over and over and I think its because it found me at a good time? Musically, lyrically... it really moved me.

“Feel the storm coming on Feel the darkness at your gate Live the loneliness of life Keep on moving at your pace Ain't the sky just shades of gray Until you seen it from the other side? Oh, if loving you is the same It's only some occasional rain”

Just shades of gray, indeed.

Favorite Songs:

Harmonia’s Dream

Change

I Don’t Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius)

Occasional Rain

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Runners up

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Talk Memory - BADBADNOTGOOD

My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket

Music For Psychedelic Therapy - Jon Hopkins

An Overview on Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins

Far In - Helado Negro

Day/Night - Parcels

Liked It

Sympathetic Magic - Typhoon

Two Saviors - Buck Meek

Good Woman - The Staves

A Billion Little Lights - Wild Pink

L.W. - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

CARNAGE - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

As the Love Continues - Mogwai

Yol - Altin Gün

The Pet Parade - Fruit Bats

Collections From The Whiteout - Ben Howard

Green to Gold - The Antlers

G_d’s Pee AT STATES END - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Head of Roses - Flock of Dimes

Music - Benny Sings

MAYBE WERE THE VISITORS - Page McConnell

Bright Green Field - Squid

Cicada Waves - Ben Seretan

Fire In Little Africa - Fire In Little Africa

Long Lost - Lord Huron

Butterfly 3000 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Quietly Blowing It - Hiss Golden Messenger

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

I Know I’m Funny haha - Faye Webster

The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

BLONDIE - Nick Midnight

Gold-Digger Sound - Leon Bridges

One Foot In Front Of The Other - Griff

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita - Sturgill Simpson

Lost Futures - Marisa Anderson & William Tyler

Local Valley - José González

Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) - Explosions In The Sky

Year Of The Spider - Shannon & The Clams

Music Of The Spheres - Coldplay

Donda - Kanye West

Projector - Geese

Valentine - Snail Mail

Pressure Machine - The Killers

Infinite Granite - Deafheaven

Tethers - Minor Moon

An Evening With Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic

30 - Adele

Things Take Time, Take Time - Courtney Barnett

How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? - Big Red Machine

Cerulean - Nashville Ambient Ensemble

Meh

For the first time - Black Country, New Road

Little Oblivions - Julien Baker

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

Sketchy - Tune Yards

Ice Melt - Crumb

Star-Crossed - Kacey Musgraves

Sob Rock - John Mayer

Afrique Victime - Mdou Moctar

Audio Drag for Ego Slobs - Gustaf

Certified Lover Boy - Drake

Queens of the Summer Hotel - Aimee Mann

Dark in Here - The Mountain Goats

Haven’t listened yet...

Silver Dream - Moon Taxi

Strawberry Mansion - Langhorne Slim

Medicine at Midnight - Foo Fighters

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility

As Days Get Dark - Arab Strap

When You See Yourself - Kings of Leon

Reincarnation - BONZIE

The Million Masks of God - Manchester Orchestra

Convocations - Sufjan Stevens

Daddy’s Home - St. Vincent

Changephobia - Rostam

Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice

CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST - Tyler, The Creator

Alem - Altin Gun

Peace Or Love - Kings Of Convenience

Elsewhere - Hammock

Trespass on Foot - Kiran Leonard

Petunia - Tonstartssbandht

Raise the Roof - Robert Plant & Allison Kraus

Which Way to Be Happy - Penelope Isles

Henki - Richard Dawson & Circle

Long Lost - Lord Huron

Not from 2021 (Albums that weren’t released this year, yet finally clicked for me):

Naturally - J.J. Cale

American Stars ‘N Bars - Neil Young

Youth Pastoral - Ben Seretan

Aja - Steely Dan

The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Look-Ka Py Py - The Meters

Capacity - Big Thief

UFOF - Big Thief

Departure Songs - Hammock

Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow - Hammock

Live Vol. 1 - Parcels

Wildflowers - Tom Petty

Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town - Emmylou Harris

Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris

Concerts Attended in 2021:

Jon Fullbright & Patty Griffin - Woody Guthrie Folk Festival - Guthrie, OK - 7/16/21

Phish - Walmart AMP - Rogers, AR - 7/28/21

Links to past lists:

10 Albums that changed my life, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

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Happy Listening!

Jake

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New York City, New York -- Ben Seretan will be releasing his new album Youth Pastoral on February 28 via Whatever’s Clever. The first track from the upcoming record is titled “Power Zone,” which features Seretan’s friend Devra Freelander, the late sculptor. The song is just about 4.5 minutes long and there’s an undeniable serenity to the songwriting but the lyrics go deeper than that. With the lap steel giving “Power Zone” a mournful draw, Seretan laments “you will always be hungry for something you can’t hold”. There is a gentleness to this song that keeps me coming back, reminding me a lot of Cotton Jones’ 2009 record Paranoid Cocoon.

If you’re in New York, be sure to check out Seretan’s record release show at Union Pool on February 28.

Connect with Ben Seretan:

Official Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

#ben seretan #youth pastoral #whatever's clever #new york city #Devra Freelander

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badculturefilms · 1 year

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Ben Seretan at Super Dark Monday at DA’s 11/14/22 #superdarkcollective #superdarkmondays #desperateannies #benseretan #publicspeaking #skyfurrows (at Desperate Annie's) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClATEF-j_ej/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#superdarkcollective #superdarkmondays #desperateannies #benseretan #publicspeaking #skyfurrows

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