Ben Seretan Cicada Waves

During an artist residency in the thick of a pandemic, alone in the woods with an $80,000 concert piano at the bottom of the Appalachian mountain range, Ben Seretan set out to finally make the pristine piano recordings he had always wanted to make. As it turned out, the generously-windowed dance studio was no match for the relentless din of nature: crickets and feral cats, all manner of birds, and swarms of cicadas so loud and so multidirectional ready to lift the studio right off of the earth. Cicada Waves documents an artist adapting--something weve all had to do during a surreal year full of remarkably strange circumstances. The recordings are shared with as little artifice as possible; there are no edits or comped parts, no mixing, no second takes. The sounds you hear are, more or less, exactly the sounds that happened in the world at that moment. 01 Cicada Waves 1 02 3pm Rainstorm 03 Cicada Waves 2 04 Rain and Cicadas 05 11pm Sudden Thunderstorm 06 8pm Crickets 07 Fog Rolls Out Rabun Gap

• Internal ID: JITRE
• Format: Cassette
• Released: 4/30/21
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Format Detail: Cassette [w/ download card]
• Genre: Indie & Alternative