Kuhn, Philadelphia, PA (2026)

10/05/2024

show today! 🔊

come support this mutual aid market!!

i hope to share music i postponed releasing last year when the bombings started

04/16/2024

just posted my ‘steadfast’ dj mix (🔗 in bio). i spent a week or so sinking into my cassette tapes for this project, digitizing as much of my library as i could find time for as a distraction from school and organizing.

this mix is the first product of that harvest, sounds coiled up the magnetic warmth of other times, bringing with them hopes passed by, secret messages unlocked through dialogue with current events (phil collins’ ‘one more night’ becomes a plea for ceasefire in gaza?) and new potentials.

there are 7 unreleased originals, including collabs with

📼 tracklisting 📼

[aaron bushnell’s last facebook post]
pacific yew - josephine [self-released]
benn kuhn - 4682unicorns feat. madam data [unreleased]
azymuth - deixa isso p’ra la [intima]
b.b.&q. band - on the beat [capitol]
benn kuhn - fafhbeach [unreleased]
benn kuhn - the dada track [unreleased]
the cyclist - visions [leaving]
ghost town djs - my boo (benn kuhn bootleg) [unreleased]
chaka khan - own the night [mca]
howse - fb (tape mix) [lupin press]
agen & sharku - fremtidskongressen [300ad]
benn kuhn - holy water feat. rev. rhetta morgan [released]
dakim - waytogo2 [leaving]
phil collins - one more night [atlantic]
benn kuhn - slow completion [unreleased]
highlander - the journey south [lochshore]
inflatable mattress - party city [wigflip]
benn kuhn - fibrous antagonism [unreleased]
lee clarke - i’m back [unreleased]
the dene road - six bay mare [self-released]
alphabets heaven - show me (u remix) [cleaning tapes]
leonard cohen - everybody knows [columbia]
sam rise - til they’re free (benn kuhn remix feat. moon king, pax ressler) [forthcoming astro nautico]
lee clarke - jjjjjj2 [unreleased]
michael beharie - moonrise iii [words+dreams]
ana caravelle - anti-anxiety pill (yuk. rendition) [non projects]
xz - from ashes [wavinginspace]**
photay with carlos niño - an offering [international anthem]
boards of canada - one very important thought [warp]

actively raising funds for palestine legal**
s/o

01/07/2024

we return for another vigil in clark park 1-2pm under the zelkova tree, mourning 30,000+ palestinians killed in gaza by the iof since october.

an unknown zionist individual or group has repeatedly attacked the installation in the past week, stripping the tree limbs of printed names of the dead, slashing the permit sign with a blade, pulling flags out of the ground, and tossing objects of reverence and remembrance into public trashcans. our community has decided to remove the ground flags and other elements of the site temporarily while we consider our community’s next steps.

whatever happens to these materials, i and others will continue to hold vigils around the zelkova tree, including today. i hope these events continue to help folks express love, trust, mutual regard, outrage, heartbreak, thoughtfulness, vulnerability—all of everything that makes our community’s rebellious mourning real, transformative, and completely unassailable.

updates at

12/11/2023

tues 12/12 from 5-7pm we return with renewed rebellious mourning to the vigil installation for palestine in clark park in support of the call for ceasefire and a just peace to follow.

the community vigil space has successfully been defended against threat of removal by parks and recreation and the mayor’s office through the efforts of hundreds of neighbors, local communities of faith, and elected officials united in an interfaith coalition to protect the space through rain and snow.

tomorrow we will again provide a sound system for community members to offer meditative musical presentations, poems of mourning, somatic grief exercises, and any other article of mourning.

please bring candles, flowers, and announcements or calls to action

**this week we will have hot tea by

11/27/2023

Emergency rally at 3pm in Clark Park to protect the Clark Park Vigil and follow official account . Call the mayor too (215) 686-2181. And dress warm!

For transparency, this is the email we wrote today to and head of Parks and Rec Orlando Rendon.

RE: Short-term permit request for Clark Park vigil

Dear Commissioner Rendon and Councilperson Gauthier,

As West Philly community members we write to request a short-term permit for the vigil art installation in Clark Park.

This site is currently serving as a peaceful space for mourning, community healing, and gathering where all are welcome. As you know the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank is ongoing, with 15,000+ civilians dead and more dying daily; and so this memorial continues to be relevant. Many members of our community, including faith leaders with Calvary Church and Kol Tzedek, mental health professionals, and trauma-informed artists plan to continue a schedule of public programming (music, poetry reading, meditation) while violence abroad is ongoing.

We intend to continue to maintain this space as one of providing safety against both antisemitism and Islamophobia in our community.

This site has enormous support in the West Philly neighborhood. We invite you both to a rally today at 3:00pm where supporters will gather and offer testimony for why this space should be preserved.

We would be honored to meet you there or at any other place to discuss possibilities for extending this site through a permitting process with the city.

On behalf of our community,
Bennett Kuhn
C. Yang

11/24/2023

Please write city officials NOW to demand an indefinite extension for the mourning site at Clark Park and remain on alert for more announcements on how we can protect it.

“Monday is phenomenally consequential for us all. I urge you [City officials] to stand your employees down well before Monday, clarify your language and stance, and negotiate with our community on equitable and transparent terms so that we can work together to improve what is clearly effective in the community’s collective mourning practices. Your action now stands to save—or endanger—lives.”

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“We do this for the college-aged Palestinian Americian girl who showed up before our vigil yesterday and through tears said she had heard about the space but did not yet have the bravery to visit yet. She does not deserve to be alone this winter. For the Palestinian American man who showed up after our vigil yesterday with big wet eyes and said he was “proud he could leave the house today” considering that this morning he “finally broke down for real” in front of his wife and kids. He does not deserve to lose access to the site he walks to several times a week just to clear his head and cry in earnest without worrying he will frighten his kids… grief at this mourning site is far from done.”

11/21/2023

please return to clark park thurs 1-2pm for rebellious mourning in support of the call for ceasefire and a just peace to follow in palestine.

the community vigil space is now under threat of removal by the city’s parks and recreation department, even as the iof’s murder count in gaza grows every day, surpassing 12,300.

we meet thursday also in solidarity with the national day of mourning, a protest ritual initiated by wampanoag leadership in 1970 to dispel the settler-colonial misinformation campaign bitterly called ‘thanksgiving.’

come with candles, flowers, poems, announcements, calls for action — any article of your grief is welcome.

**this week we will have free hot soup and beverages provided by

11/17/2023

thank you for the birthday wishes.

i had planned for the last year or so to release a full length album today, but i recently decided to shelve the release in order to guard the energy i need to stand in solidarity with the call for a ceasefire in gaza and a just peace to follow. drumming at rallies and improvising at the park vigils are my main ways of making music for the time being.

there’s much to report about the downs and ups of becoming a social worker; the thrill of starting a private practice any day now to provide mental-health related music services in philly; and the entrance of mucca into my life (the spotted kitten pictured in these photos). over the next year i hope to engage more frequently and vocally here to tell you about how much is happening in my head and heart. for now, know i’m grateful to be growing older with lots of folks in community who are proud of the ways i’m shaping, and being shaped by, the changes.

thank you for having my back—it makes going even farther on my path imaginable, probable, or even, by grace, inevitable.

11/07/2023

Tonight and every Tuesday until ceasefire at we bring our rebellious mourning sounds to Clark Park.

Through music, we mark our dissent and draw our focus to the loss of life highlighted by this installation, a growing community memorial of which no one and everyone is an organizer.

The number of Palestinians killed by the IDF has risen to 5 digits this week (10,000+ lives). Join us in holding the space however feels right to you.

09/07/2023

kuhn live at 808 w sedgwick st

saturday 9/9 at 2:40pm

grateful to be accompanied by for this show, literally freeing me to express myself while singing and playing sax

thank you for continuing to listen to and share my new single ‘fall risk’ (link in bio)!

Kuhn

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