sandhills music by Ben Seretan
One afternoon in the middle of North Carolina a storm rolled in. The wind picked up and the rain started falling and the front porch wind chimes, ordinarily gentle, almost inaudible, began cutting through the weather. Each tone called something forth, overlapping swirls of resonance - lives lived and lost, a million things to notice, fat drops of water in the loam. "sandhills music" is a humble effort to synthesize what was captured—the sounds, the tones, the associations, the cars driving by, the stories, the interconnected pangs, the unfurling scroll.
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"sandhills music" was originally published in five parts via two newsletters - the long-running artist print house Tiny Showcase out of Providence and My Big Break, the weekly slice of heaven out of Troy, NY. it's a series of instances - field recordings from a porch in North Carolina dubbed and re-recorded onto cassette tape, wind chimes and human voices sampled and re-harmonized, five small essays that explode the meaning of each movement.
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15% of all profits from this project will benefit the Yellowhammer Fund, "a 501(c)3 abortion fund and reproductive justice organization serving Alabama, Mississippi, and the Deep South"
https://www.yellowhammerfund.org
Tracklist
| 1. | head in the water, child / in colors just a little too vibrant to be naturally occurring / bench full of yellowing hymns / a clear and common miracle | 28:22 |
| 2. | pedal steel warping in the mph | 28:37 |
Credits
commissioned and editioned by tiny showcase
summer ‘22
www.tinyshowcase.com
co-published by My Big Break:
read.mybigbreak.zone
recorded by ben seretan in sanford, nc and troy, ny
with assistance from richard lawrence
special thanks to the lawrence family
dedicated to the memory of isabel,
a woman of love and joy
