$15 Adv + Fees | 21+ In 2014 some shirtless guy appeared on the cover of an LP with the phrase “Ecstatic Joy” tattooed on his chest. So arrived Ben Seretan of New York City, monastic and multivalent, hollering over crash cymbals, building impossible, towering clouds of drones, and playing the guitar like his life depended on it, smiling in the throes all the while. His catalog is full of delightfully hard lefts - there’s the twangy excesses of 2016’s Bowl of Plums, the 24-hour-long album of pure heavenly drone My Life’s Work from 2018, and then in 2020 Youth Pastoral, an album of songs about breaking up and breaking up with God caught wider attention, getting named one of the best of the year by Pitchfork. Naturally Cicada Waves, his following record released by NNA Tapes, is an outlandishly serene 53-minute collection of instrumental solo piano recordings. Now signed to sister labels Tiny Engines & Sound as Language and a resident of Climax, New York, Seretan soldiers forth with his delightfully unpredictable output - 2024 saw the release of Allora, the notorious “insane Italy record” that caught Seretan and band shredding and giggling harder than ever before. And all the while he’s been churning out a steady stream of weekly tracks via his ambitious My Big Break newsletter, the best of which were recently compiled as a serene ambient album known as “astral projecting into flavortown” released earlier this year. Capable of both terrifying crescendos and alarming tenderness, Seretan flies as a rare bird does - spot him through the binoculars if you can. Presented by Sleeping Village. This is an 21+ event