From August, 2015
Song #24 – Pity Party (co-produced by Grey Revell)
What a busy stretch I’m going through. It would seem that I am behind on releasing songs for this project, but I have been actually getting ahead on the project by recording clusters of songs with people and planning recording sessions. It is out of necessity because my puppet opera 23 Psaegz is about to have our first performance with puppets. The puppets are very large things which people get inside of… a brand new artform for me to work in. So we’ve just been learning and coming up with our plans from scratch. It’s been difficult and rewarding. Many people have been putting in time to make this work. I feel so blessed. I’m thankful to my friend Grey Revell of Impermanence Studios in Belmont, NC for his production work on this track. He did a wonderful job both adding instruments to my original simple version and then mixing the whole thing into a cohesive sounding track. Hopefully he and I will be working together more in the future!!
PITY PARTY
Heart and body will bleed when I sit down and know the party is done
Hey we’ll scream out, the party leavings on the floor, I can’t take this anymore
Hey! come clean up what you’ve left behind
I’m not your mother, and I didn’t throw this party for your benefit
You’ve ruined it, make me sick
I’m not your mother, not your sister or your brother
We’re not even friends, why did you come in here again?
Alright, alright
The paper died, you take my pride slowly
You’ve taken all that you can from me
Now Go
I don’t want you here.
I’ll keep my pride
A revolution’s starting below
You were never meant to see it
The world is starting up
We’re standing up on our own
And there ain’t nothing you can do to stop it
Don’t get in our way, Don’t breathe in our space
You’ve done enough this time
This pity party’s over
Alright, alright
The paper died, you take my pride slowly
The paper died with human pride
Our wheels collide
I’m taking sides
Linking arms with what I know is right
And I’ll fight with my will
For the wings to take flight
For the answer inside
I’ll no longer hide
A revolution in the streets
In the market on our feet
A revolution overboard
Throw the monster to the dogs
A revolution in the streets
In the market on our feet
A revolution from within
Rip the monster from your skin
Alright, alright
The paper died, you take my pride slowly
The paper died with human pride
Our wheels collide
I’m taking sides
Linking arms with what I know is right
Don’t get in our way
Don’t breathe in our space
You’ve done enough this time
This pity party’s over
FAERGOLZIA: European Tour
Seth Hebert-Faergolzia and a group of 5 amazing musicians will be traveling Europe this Autumn performing Seth’s music including #100songs, Dufus, 23 Psaegz, Forest Creature and anything else you can think of with the latest troupe, FAERGOLZIA.
September 19 – Skylark, Rochester, NY (warmup show!!)
September 20 – Alto Cinco, Syracuse, NY
September 22 – Palisades, NYC (US sendoff show!!)
September 24 – Ting Galleri – Malmö, Sweden
September 25 – Old School – Private show- Bastanäs, Linneryd, Sweden
September 26 – Makvaerket – Regstrup, Denmark
September 29 – Wohnzimmerkonzert – Kamen, Germany
September 30 – Café Central – Brussels, Belgium
October 1 – Stumpf – Hanover, Germany
October 2 – Hasenshaukel – Hamburg, Germany
October 3 – Cafe Scheune, Wrendenhagen, Germany
October 4 – Tipi – Leipzig, Germany
October 6 – Studio Savec – Prague, Czech Republic
October 7 – Fluc, Vienna, Austria
October 8 – PMK – Innsbruck, Austria
October 9 – YOUZ – Bad Ischl, Austria
October 10 – Chäsi – Gysenstein, Switzerland
October 11 – White Horse – Morges, Switzerland
October 12 – Secret Show – Kehl, Germany
October 13 – Benderhof – Kaiserslautern, Germany
October 14 – Schokoladen – Berlin, Germany
October 15 – Waggon – Offenbach, Germany
October 16 – Blau – Mannheim, Germany
October 17 – Oetinger Villa – Darmstadt, Germany
October 18 – Shorty – Bärenbach, Germany
Seth plays acoustic guitar and loop station. From California, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, John Ludington from Absynth Quintet, a critically acclaimed gypsy-grass band, “…the lovechild of Beck and Frank Zappa…” Seth and John toured Europe in 2013 with their collaborative project, Forest Creature. Shaun Jones from Heck Yup, will be gently shredding electric guitar. Laura Lee Jones wearing an old washboard will tinker with auxiliary percussion & provide voice and theremin melodies. Beat professor, drummer extraordinaire, Dominic Marini is on his maiden voyage with Faergolzia.
The freak-folk group will be performing a full and varied cross-section of the peerless oddball music that has delighted and baffled audiences, collaborators, and critics alike for over a decade. Faergolzia will continue to shake musical conventions, making moments honest and organic in their exploration of possibility.