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Thank you to everyone who came to the release show on Friday! It was really gratifying to get to share this music and bring you sonically to all the beautiful places that I recorded. I’m grateful for your support. Big thanks to Sara Pajunen as well, who played a totally gorgeous set! I’m gearing up […]

A closer look at the vinyl edition of Field Song. Out THIS FRIDAY, 8/9. Order on bandcamp or come to the release show this Friday with Sara Pajunen to purchase vinyl along with cassettes of Selected Ecotones and download codes for each album. Walker United Methodist Church 3104 16th Ave S Minneapolis Doors 6:30 •

Field Song by Kenan Serenbetz “In Every Part” was the last track to be recorded and closes out the album. The third verse of this song opens with the line “when whooping cranes take to the skies / more than the stars in number”. Whooping cranes are one of the great conservation success stories. At

Tune in to Jazz88 88.5FM this week if you’re in Minnesota to hear me talk about Field Song with Phil Nusbaum. You’ll hear some clips from the album and stories from the recording process. The interview airs: Monday 8/5 at 8:20pmThursday 8/8 at 11:20am and 6:20pm If you can’t catch it live, you can listen

Field Song, in its vinyl form, is an AAA album. This means that from the original tapes, through the mastering process, to the lacquer cutting and the record pressing, the audio was never digitized. The magic of the sound of AAA recordings is much like the magic of analog photography. When you take a photo

#9 from Selected Ecotones, out 8/9 #newmusic #selectedecotones #ambient #cassette #tape #clarinet #sony #wildflower #milkweed #rudbeckia

Woven throughout artwork for Field Song and Selected Ecotones is an insignia inspired by the Japanese mon tradition, which I designed in collaboration with Dan MacDonald (who also did the artwork for Field Song). In the Japanese tradition, mon are used for identification and decoration. They originated in the Heian period, which also spawned the

Rest was recorded in a rich riparian forest at Miesville Ravine Park Preserve. The clicks you hear are the katydids, and the more noticeable pitched chirps are mole crickets. The lullaby is about late summer, when the winds begin to cool, the insect chorus takes shape, and the later wildflowers bloom. You can now listen

Selected Ecotones is a collection of instrumental pieces I recorded between 2022 and 2023. For each track, I sat down with an instrument or two and a cassette recorder and improvised. An ecotone is a transitional area where two or more distinct biological communities meet. They are often highly biodiverse, and they may contain species

Prairie Light from Field Song, out 8/9 Visiting a remnant prairie is sacred. There is so little prairie left that these small parcels of untilled earth are nothing short of miraculous. It was in one of these remnants at Koester Prairie that I recorded Prairie Light. The song sings of the magic of these places,