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Ben Flocks

• Saxophonist 🎷• Teacher 🎵• Los Angeles 🌊•
New Album Moonshades out now

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It’s #bandcampfriday! Order a copy of moonshades on vinyl and check out other releases from your favorite musicians today and all proceeds go directly to the artists! Click the link in my bio or in my stories to get your copy. Thanks y’all 🙏🏼


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2 weeks ago

thanks @paris_move for the thoughtful review of moonshades 🌙 🌖 🌕


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3 weeks ago

thanks @paris_move for the thoughtful review of moonshades 🌙 🌖 🌕


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3 weeks ago

thanks @paris_move for the thoughtful review of moonshades 🌙 🌖 🌕


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3 weeks ago

Very excited to teach & perform this summer @stanfordjazz! 🎷🌲♥️
I’m on faculty during Jazz Camp Week 2 and I’m playing music from my new record at the festival on July 20th. Honored to share a bill with the incredible saxophonist, composer, and educator @ajrushmusic. Joining me for my set are some of my favorite musicians and longtime friends from the SJW community, @bennettpaster on 🎹, @thurstonmilgrom on 🎻, & @sturijo on 🥁
See ya there 🤙🏼


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1 months ago

EPIC DOUBLE RELEASE WEEK 💥
This little guy decided to join the album release party last Friday 🤯
Say hey to Louis Sawyer Flocks — aka Louie aka baby Lou — born in the wee small hours of the morning in the city of angels. Lauren and I are so tired and we love him to the moon and back x10000000 🌖
We’re already learning so much from him, and we can’t wait to watch him bravely explore his new crazy, beautiful world 💜


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1 months ago

Moonshades has landed 🌙

Featuring @ricc_jamzz (bass), #JayBellerose (drums), @gravywill (guitar), & @jacksonport_ (guitar & voice).

Listen while gazing up at the moon. Purchase wax through my @bandcamp page at the link in my bio. Pressed beautifully by @recordtechnologyinc.

Produced by John Fatum, Adrian Olsen, & Ben Flocks
Recorded & Mixed by @montroserecording @knobworld
Mastered by Mark Wilder
Mastered for Vinyl by Chris Bellman @berniegrundmanmastering
Photography by @a.nefarias
Album Design by @debbiejcho (Fruit Sandwich)

Record release celebrations to come. Deep thanks to @fullyaltered @mark_rini @moonpipe & all my friends and family for supporting me and my music with your love. Sending love back through these cosmic vibrations 🌖 🎶


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1 months ago


Moonshades has landed 🌙

Featuring @ricc_jamzz (bass), #JayBellerose (drums), @gravywill (guitar), & @jacksonport_ (guitar & voice).

Listen while gazing up at the moon. Purchase wax through my @bandcamp page at the link in my bio. Pressed beautifully by @recordtechnologyinc.

Produced by John Fatum, Adrian Olsen, & Ben Flocks
Recorded & Mixed by @montroserecording @knobworld
Mastered by Mark Wilder
Mastered for Vinyl by Chris Bellman @berniegrundmanmastering
Photography by @a.nefarias
Album Design by @debbiejcho (Fruit Sandwich)

Record release celebrations to come. Deep thanks to @fullyaltered @mark_rini @moonpipe & all my friends and family for supporting me and my music with your love. Sending love back through these cosmic vibrations 🌖 🎶


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1 months ago

Moonshades has landed 🌙

Featuring @ricc_jamzz (bass), #JayBellerose (drums), @gravywill (guitar), & @jacksonport_ (guitar & voice).

Listen while gazing up at the moon. Purchase wax through my @bandcamp page at the link in my bio. Pressed beautifully by @recordtechnologyinc.

Produced by John Fatum, Adrian Olsen, & Ben Flocks
Recorded & Mixed by @montroserecording @knobworld
Mastered by Mark Wilder
Mastered for Vinyl by Chris Bellman @berniegrundmanmastering
Photography by @a.nefarias
Album Design by @debbiejcho (Fruit Sandwich)

Record release celebrations to come. Deep thanks to @fullyaltered @mark_rini @moonpipe & all my friends and family for supporting me and my music with your love. Sending love back through these cosmic vibrations 🌖 🎶


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1 months ago

My new record Moonshades comes out on Friday, and it arrives the same day the Artemis II space explorers return to earth from their moon flyby.

This week’s expedition to the moon has inspired joy, curiosity, and deep thought in many of us. I feel immense wonder and a renewed sense of gratitude to be alive when I look at the pictures of our planet and of our moon, taken by these brave astronauts farther from our planet than anyone has traveled before.

But I feel these emotions pushing up against a steady sense of dread. Stunted by sadness from the horrible wars and mistreatment of people around the US and the globe. We must come together and stop the bigotry, stop the destruction, and stop the killing.

Like space exploration can help us imagine new possibilities, music is also a powerful source, and a catalyst for change. We need a change in perspective, and we should work hard to inspire each other through our own creative explorations to do more and to help others and heal our planet.

I made my vinyl records for the first time for moonshades and I finally have them in my hands! If little 14 year old me digging through crates at my local record shop could see me now - exploring the best I can, with my friends, family, students, and more, all guiding these new sonic frontiers and musical communications - he would be really stoked.

I hope these sounds offer you solace, I hope they stir up some scheming, and I hope they give you a space to listen and explore your feelings and ideas to invigorate your learning, creating, and community building wherever you are. It’s hard right now, but we’ve gotta try and inspire each other.

Victor Glover, an astronaut on the Artemis II expedition said this from space while looking back at earth from deep in space.

“I can really see earth as one thing…You have this amazing place. You have this oasis. This beautiful place that we get to exist together…This is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing. And that we got to get through this together.”


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1 months ago

11:59pm, 4/9/26. H O W L 🐺

Moonshades arrives a week from today 🌙


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1 months ago

a sliver of moonshades | trio magic with garret & jay 🌙

full album arrives april 10th. thank you all for listening to the singles so far 🙏🏼

go to my website and bandcamp page to get a copy on vinyl and see a calendar of upcoming shows 🎶

🎥: @a.nefarias


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1 months ago

Celebrating the arrival of Moonshades on release night - Friday, April 10 - with a show @runoutgrooverecords in Burbank! 🎵

Playing music from the album and more with Garret, Jay, and maybe a special guest or two. Come pick up a copy of Moonshades on vinyl, check out an incredible record shop, and enjoy a concert in a beautiful, intimate space 🌖

Thanks to everyone who has listened to the record so far! 🙏🏼


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1 months ago

The third and final single from Moonshades “Moon and Sand” is out today 🌖

It features one of my favorite musicians, @gravywill. I played with Will once or twice in NYC, and I’ve always been in awe of his tone, his melodic sense, and his vast knowledge of songs and recordings. Musicians embark on a lifelong quest to sculpt a distinctive sound on their instrument - often to no avail. Will plays one note and you know it’s him. His glowing vibrations next to Jay’s deep groove and @ricc_jamzz soft touch gave us a magic carpet ride through moon craters, dunes, and valleys on this one. Beautifully captured by @montroserecording and spiritually guided by @jacksonport_ . I hope you enjoy our rendition of Moon and Sand.

Moonshades arrives April 10 🌙

1st photo by @a.nefarias


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2 months ago


The third and final single from Moonshades “Moon and Sand” is out today 🌖

It features one of my favorite musicians, @gravywill. I played with Will once or twice in NYC, and I’ve always been in awe of his tone, his melodic sense, and his vast knowledge of songs and recordings. Musicians embark on a lifelong quest to sculpt a distinctive sound on their instrument - often to no avail. Will plays one note and you know it’s him. His glowing vibrations next to Jay’s deep groove and @ricc_jamzz soft touch gave us a magic carpet ride through moon craters, dunes, and valleys on this one. Beautifully captured by @montroserecording and spiritually guided by @jacksonport_ . I hope you enjoy our rendition of Moon and Sand.

Moonshades arrives April 10 🌙

1st photo by @a.nefarias


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2 months ago

The third and final single from Moonshades “Moon and Sand” is out today 🌖

It features one of my favorite musicians, @gravywill. I played with Will once or twice in NYC, and I’ve always been in awe of his tone, his melodic sense, and his vast knowledge of songs and recordings. Musicians embark on a lifelong quest to sculpt a distinctive sound on their instrument - often to no avail. Will plays one note and you know it’s him. His glowing vibrations next to Jay’s deep groove and @ricc_jamzz soft touch gave us a magic carpet ride through moon craters, dunes, and valleys on this one. Beautifully captured by @montroserecording and spiritually guided by @jacksonport_ . I hope you enjoy our rendition of Moon and Sand.

Moonshades arrives April 10 🌙

1st photo by @a.nefarias


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2 months ago

the second single from saxophonist @benflocks’ upcoming release • featuring @jacksonport_ on his original song “moon to dry” • has arrived

@ricc_jamzz #jaybellerose @gravywill
@montroserecording @fullyaltered

photo by @a.nefarias

moonshades is coming • april 10 2026 on west cliff records

#saxophone #newmusic #losangeles


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