On 'Sunbeam Of No Illusion', Ben Seretan and John Thayer find melody where ambient music usually forgets to look, treating amplified mistakes, grass-bundle drumsticks, and borrowed sustain as the raw material of a minimalist document of place. The Minimalist Gospel of Ben Seretan and John Thayer:

we’re in here 🫵😈🫵

sunbeam of no illusion on the list of best ambient music on bandcamp this past month just in time for bandcamp friday ;) grab a copy: seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbea...

GUEST LIST is available for preorder today. The end result of 2.5 years and 22 collaborators & my first LP in a decade, GUEST LIST is by far the most fully realized incarnation of the sound world in my head, everything I love about music brought forward by a crack team of players & friends.

A gorgeous piece of upstate ambient from Ben Seretan & John Thayer.

Weirdo Rippers #22 Ft. @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social, Laurel Halo, Ben Seretan & John Thayer, Wahn, Stuart Cook, Isabel Pine, and more... sun-13.com/2026/04/16/w...

really enjoyed chatting with Carolyn for this :) nice read for a nice record !

Right now, I am not searching for miraculous musical reinventions so much as a little solace: N.C. Love, Memorials, Seretan & Thayer, Ted Lucas, Dagmar Zuniga, Field Commander Ali, and Robber Robber. courtesydesk.substack.com/p/courtesy-d...

beautiful new LP of instrumental music from Ben Seretan and John Thayer seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbea...

Review | Ben Seretan & John Thayer - Sunbeam of No Illusion by @zivljub1.bsky.social "They were able to make a seemingly complicated concept sound as easy and natural as their “machine in the garden” should sound. Their sunbeam sounds quite natural indeed." echoesanddust.com/2026/04/ben-...

Album of the day ✢ Sunbeam of No Illusion — Ben Seretan, John Thayer (2026) Label: AKP Recordings ✢ Listen + support the artist ffm.to/sunbeam-of-n... #ambient #ambientmusic

"I love this record so, so much." - @foxydigitalis.bsky.social 🥹 Thanks Brad for the glowing review of future classic 'Sunbeam of No Illusion' from @benseretan.bsky.social & John Thayer Everyone read the Capsule Garden now --> foxydigitalis.zone/2026/03/30/t...

Ben Seretan and John Thayer's 'Sunbeam of No Illusion' beautifully melds improvisation, loops, effects, and field recordings. It's an #ambient masterpiece. #PMPick [9/10] out now via @akprecordings.bsky.social. REVIEW: tinyurl.com/Seretan26

Sunbeam release show tonight in nyc

A richly immersive collaborative album from Ben Seretan and John Thayer gives us this week’s A Song For Friday. Also: Paul McCartney, King Tuff, MEMORIALS, Snail Mail, Hempress Sativa/Paolo Baldini DubFiles, Irreversible Entanglements, and more! anearful.substack.com/p/a-song-for...

The new Ben Seretan x John Thayer record is out today on @akprecordings.bsky.social. It’s got a mellow, organic warmth to it that is reminiscent of Nico Georis’ Pink Clouds thanks to the abundance spacey, dusk-toned keys. #ambient #newmusic #musicsky seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbea...

new album out today please welcome to the world SUNBEAM OF NO ILLUSION blooming like the first day of spring me and John Thayer huddled around his Rhodes, spinning golden threads our first as a duo and our first with @akprecordings.bsky.social seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbea...

New album drops Friday but we’ll be streaming the whole thing on Bandcamp later today join me, John, and @akprecordings.bsky.social in the chat seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/merch/sunbea...

OUT NOW: "Little Winds" is a hall of mirrors where extrapolated chords fragment, stutter, and crystallize in hypnotic layers. A sizzling, shuffling watercolor, 'Sunbeam of No Illusion' from @benseretan.bsky.social & John Thayer is out 3/27 💎🌈 seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbea...

today John, @akprecordings.bsky.social, and I present to you "Little Winds" - - the second serene slice from Sunbeam of No Illusion, due out in full on March 27th pristine B Lydian unfurling on a spectral Fender Rhodes streaming everywhere, here's the feedback visualizer: youtu.be/tPYSvTLcE9g?...

really enjoyed chatting with Brad - what a mensch!!!

Anyway in a day that's already gone off the rails at 10 am EST it's nice to find out that Ben Seretan and John Thayer have made an album of super chill keyboard music together.

"bathes luxuriously in undulating waves of soupy, looped, shimmering tines, alternating between Yoshimura elegance and the most heartbreaking moves of Angelo Badalamenti scores" "Watermelon Well" from @benseretan.bsky.social & John Thayer is out now 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfb0...

new edition of my weekly newsletter featuring a great interview with pianist David Moore - - you might know his great work as Bing & Ruth or as a member of Cowboy Sadness but tomorrow he releases his first album of solo piano performances an epic mountaintop, we get into it link below, enjoy!

Very proud and happy to announce to Bluesky our new album as a duo, it’s the most devilishly serene shit u ever heard

New My Big Break out today Very serene guitar unfurling plus! I get electrocuted and eat a scorpion at my friend’s wedding read.mybigbreak.zone/archive/ther...

My buddy OHYUNG - a legit alt pop star and an excellent film composer - just announced a new and really stunning ambient album First single’s streaming, whole album comes out in March - definitely worth checking out!!!! ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

My friends did this and it’s cool as fuck haha!

And now: Rosy Overdrive's favorite reissues and compilations of 2025!

🫧 New music out from my band The Early today. An EP called CUSP. Our first with Island House Recs. theearly.bandcamp.com/album/cusp-ep All proceeds will be donated to Asian Americans United, who have been supporting immigrant communities from Philadelphia’s Chinatown since 1985 ✊

Great new album out today via @auralcanyon.bsky.social Feels like a good soundtrack for scuba diving in the Hudson River in your dreams auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/winds-...

42 straight minutes of the seven of us ripping one riff for the entire set, enjoy youtu.be/IHkgKHDwMmE?...

new My Big Break out now, used it as an opportunity to chat with great human @wicknebber.bsky.social we talk about the world's crisis of interest, taking things meaningfully, and how scary it is thinking everyone else is going to Hell great convo, enjoy! read.mybigbreak.zone/archive/i-be...

Gig so sick I had to make two flyers Me + a six piece band playing one riff for forty minutes tonight

Second to last night of the solo leg of da summer tour I have covered an insane amount of ground in the last few days and tonight I will be playing an extra special one in Durham, NC :)

Unfortunately my continued efforts at playing music have been generously rewarded with mirth and camaraderie and I will have no choice but to continue doing it

We are blasting down 84 blasting Ace of Spades at maximum volume and will not tap the brakes once until we get to the gig in Boise tonight 🫡

Continuing to meet all the coolest people doing rad shit online and then playing shows with them

I finally get to meet the sweeties @wicknebber.bsky.social and the Nothings tonight (aka @aplaceforowls.bsky.social) and I couldn’t be more delighted So sick how tour allows you to string together excellent humans We’re going silly goose mode at Goosetown tonight in Denver

Chris rocks as does friendship

Had a truly wonderful time ripping shit in Minneapolis and also we got into a waterfall and did karaoke haha !!!! Brining our unstoppable zest for life to Omaha, Nebraska this evening Hope to see some of you at Pageturners tonight Has anyone seen my capo btw?

Today is the first anniversary of @benseretan.bsky.social's magnificent Allora! We have less than 20 copies of the orange/bone and less than 40 copies of the highlighter yellow left. benseretan.bandcamp.com/album/allora

Allora came out one year ago today!!! I love this record, I love going insane, and I love Italy We will be very appropriately celebrating the album by ripping shit in Minneapolis tonight 🤌

Nick Webber & The Nothings rock band show on Monday night with @benseretan.bsky.social and Maddy Marsan

We will be playing live and loud music tonight in the great Midwest city of Chicago I assure you the village will not be sleeping when we are through with it!!!!!!

tour just started !!!!!!!! about to rip it in Philadelphia then will eat my weight in injera

New tour shirts came in and they are sick as hell Coming to a town near some of you soon see ya out there

me and Dustin Wong set got posted to YouTube met for the first time a couple of hours before this! sounds very nice I hope you enjoy youtu.be/tb0A_Mj1KVk?...

Nick Webber full band show with @benseretan.bsky.social and Maddy Marsan at Goosetown Tavern on Monday July 28

50 songs, 4.5 hours and only $6. So good @benseretan.bsky.social benseretan.bandcamp.com/album/my-big...