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sandhills music

by Ben Seretan

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  • Small Run Scroll Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    This small run of cassette tapes contains 57 minutes of weather, chimes, and sustained tones bundled in a *five-foot-long scroll* full-color printed with the project's associative writing—a flag unfurling, a curling text, a tangible embodiment of what we do online endlessly.

    Music dubbed and re-recorded on cassette tape literally swaddled in reams of meaning and held together with baker's twine.

    Lovingly printed and assembled by Tiny Showcase:
    www.tinyshowcase.com

    Includes unlimited streaming of sandhills music via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

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"

www.yellowhammerfund.org

credits

released August 30, 2022

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

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