By seth faergolzia
2024 Tour Europe
I’ve got a solo tour coming up through parts of Europe this Spring.
May 29 – Franzis – Wetzlar, DE
May 30 – Benderhof – Kaiserslautern, DE
June 1 – Qwertz – Lausanne, Switzerland
June 2 – Flowfield, Café Bar Klappe 2 – Dornbirn, Austria
June 3 – Kurdirektion – Bad Ischl, Austria
June 4 – Don Quichotte Kultur-Zentrum – Innsbruck, Austria
June 6 – House Show – Karlsruhe, DE
June 7 – House Show – Ottersweier, DE
June 8 – Night of the Arts Festival – Gottingen, DE
June 9 – House Show – Kamen, DE
June 11 – Toaster – Brussels, Belgium
June 12 – Nordstadtbraut – Hanover, DE
June 13 – Zakk – Bremen, DE
June 14 – House Show – Hamburg, DE
June 15 – Ratte aka Waldschlösschen – Colditz, DE
June 16 – Heimathafen – Sornzig, DE
June 17 – Schokoladen – Berlin, DE
June 18 – Ilses Erika – Leipzig, DE
June 20 – Atelier Adelung33 – Darmstadt, DE
June 21 – Steinbruch Festival near Bad Kreuznach, DE
June 22 – Multifest – Hangelar, DE
Deutschland here I come!
Here we go again!
I feel like I just finished one tour and now I’m on another… it’s been a busy time, which I’m thankful for, but after this tour I’ll be taking a half year break to focus on new recordings, videos and the obvious: life and living! But for now, it’s wise to prepare for this tour…
June 26 – House Show with Rushad Eggleston – Rochester, NY
June 29 – Altes Volksbad – Mannheim
June 30 – Villa Nachttanz- Heidelberg
July 1 – Steinbruch Festival – near Bad Kreuznach
July 2 – Kulturmarkt Colditz – Waldbad Colditz
July 4 – Noch Besser Leben – Leipzig
july 5 – Hangelarpaloosa – Hangelar
July 7 – Sundance ContactCamp Festival – Weißenseifen
July 8 – Obernair Festival (3pm) / Rudolstadt Festival (10pm)
July 9 – Rudolstadt Festival (5pm)
July 10 – Atelier Adelung33 – Darmstadt
I do need some help on the weekend of July 7-9, if any of my kind fans have a car and would be up for an adventure, driving me to these concerts, I will pay you! I also need to rent some sound equipment for July 8/9.
and, indeed, you heard that right, Dufus is getting back together for a one time show September 23 at Baker Falls with Jeffrey Lewis, Nathan Dufour and Toby Goodshank on the bill. We will most certainly have special guests coming up throughout the show!
12 Album Release and Tours
Fri April 15 Tour Sendoff House Show – Rochester, NY
New Video for “Not Ants” animated by Chris Murray
West Coast US and Upstate NY:
US TOURDATESFeb 18 CaTMA Gallery – Olympia, WAFeb 20 The Big Dirty – Eugene, OR TicketsFeb 21 The Fixin’ To – Portland, OR TicketsFeb 22 Karate Church – Bellingham, WAFeb 23 The Funhouse – Seattle, WA TicketsMarch 2 Sacred Root Kava – Ithaca, NYApril 14 Spirit Room – Rochester, NY
Painbow Box Set
We should have the new Painbow Box Set done by mid-March and ready for purchase. Considering some sort of pre-order thing. This 12 Album Box Set consists of 4 new albums, 4 Seth solo albums from the early 2000’s, and 4 Dufus albums with live show audio plus some studio outtakes and unreleased tracks! Along with that, we will also have these new T-shirts available on tour and online in a couple weeks!
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Seth Faergolzia’s European Not Ants Tour
Seth Faergolzia Not Ants Summer 2022 Tour
August 9 – Benderhof – Kaiserslautern, DE
August 10 – Schokoladen – Berlin, DE
August 11 – Ilses Erika Biergarten – Leipzig, DE
August 12 – Hangelarpalooza – Hangelar, DE
August 13 – Keller Drei – Hanover, DE
August 14 – Garden Concert – Hamburg, DE
August 15 – Stockwerk Projekt Space – Weimar, DE
August 16 – TBA – Göttingen, DE
August 17 – Concert in the Woods – Hochstätten
August 19 – la Coquette Mobile – Morges, Switzerland
August 20 – House Concert – Ottersweier, DE
August 21 – House Concert – Offenburg, DE
August 22 – Hidden Forrest Concert – Eschenbach, DE
August 23 – Waggon – Offenbach, DE
New Album and European Tour!
Not Ants!! Within this 10 song LP you’ll find songs about ants (actually not ants), peaceful protest, keeping things real, letting go the child self, sailing in a cave (a dream song Regina Spektor sang), perfectly sculpted hairdos in the age of societal collapse, bringing the masses into a positive future, gun issues, dissassembling reality and the pitfalls involved, and letting go of all meaning. There are many more words than that within the songs, and tons of notes, mostly sung.
The album is structured off of live looping with voice and occasional instruments coupled with a new, less affected way of singing as suggested by my friend and collegue Jeffrey Lewis. I hope you’ll take the time to listen then buy the album!
This year I’ve put out 4 official releases plus some under pseudonyms… clearing out my vaults. Next month there’ll be a new DUFUS LIVE ALBUM!
With all these new albums I thought it time to tour Europe!
I’ve got a bunch of dates booked in August, but still have a few days available and will likely move things around a little bit. If you want me to come to your area, please respond to this email! or write me directly here
August 9 – Kaiserslautern, Germany
August 10 – Berlin, Germany
August 11 – Leipzig, Germany
August 12 – Hanover, Germany
August 13 – Hangelar, Germany
August 14 – TBA
August 15 – Vienna, Austria
August 16 – TBA
August 17 – TBA
August 18 – TBA
August 19 – Morges, Switzerland
August 20 – Ottersweier, Germany
August 21 – Offenburg, Germany
August 22 – Plauen, Germany
August 23 – Offenbach, Germany
New Videos
Here’s a stop motion painting / making of the Xactly album cover. This is available on Needlejuice Records
Additionally, this amazing stop motion video by Kelly McDermott is for the song Stars On the Pavement, also on Needlejuice.
West Coast Tourdates
well, it looks like I’m finally getting back on the road for a solo tour. it’s short and sweet, I’m going to be playing a bunch of my new songs on classical guitar and loop station. spread the word!
March 4 – The Convent Arts Collective, San Francisco, CA
March 6 – Milk Bar, San Francisco, CA (early show 3-6pm)
March 6 – White Horse, Oakland, CA (Later show 7-10pm)
March 8 – The Audio Nerd, Rocklin, CA
March 9 – Siren’s Song, Eureka, CA
March 12 – Rooted Grounds, Eugene, OR
March 14 – Kelly’s Olympian, Portland, OR
March 16 – Hart Bar, Brooklyn, NY
Weirdly Weathered Animated Video
Hello you sweet, wonderful humans!
I’m in a very good mood today because our new VIDEO is done and getting spun all across the world! So exciting. I want to thank you all for your support. This has been a few months in the making. Lots of the costs were covered by you and your support. I’ve been working with a very special artist named Kelly McDermott. Kelly reached out to me earlier last year. She had discovered my music online and offered to make a video. We became good friends over time, and I decided to hire her to make a video because I love her aesthetic! It turned out to be a very collaborative process. I thought I’d give you a little peek into how we did it!
So, first we both listened to it and tried to think of what imagery the music and lyrics evoked for us both. I sent my thoughts with timings to her then she responded to that with ideas she had… then I sent it back again with more ideas and clearer timings, and she started making her puppets and scenes. Everything was made from scratch for this particular video, so you can imagine, Kelly put in a ton of hours! She would send me clips and I’d say “I love it!” usually. Occasionally I’d offer an opinion here or there. She sent me the imagery in batches and long clips then I placed them all in with the music and started fiddling. The way I work on video is to do a lot of fiddling. haha. Did you notice an historic musical icon who gets featured throughout the video?
I’d like to take this moment to thank Kelly publicly for her tireless hard work on this project. I’m super excited to be moving forward with this collaboration into the next phase! Kelly and I are working on another video for the album release in March with Needlejuice Records. That’s going to rule, I’m sure of it. Kelly has already sent me a bunch of sketches and plans…. crazy to think she and I haven’t even met in person yet. Her partner Case Federal is a great musician. I want to say a special thanks to Case, Carly Clanton and Tyler Regan for doing the dancing in the desert puppetry.
I was reminded by friend Diane Cluck that when we were living in Ithaca together 15 years ago I had mentioned that I wanted to get into animation and video. Here I am 15 years later doing something I never really thought I could do. Now I’m moving on to bigger and better things even! All of this is a move toward making a kick ass film, Moon Shaped Head. Sooner or later we will score some more funding and move forward.
Ok, enough words! More music.
much love,
Seth
New Album: Clutch of Seven
Hot off the presses folks… this album is number 2 in a 12 album subscription series Seth Faergolzia is putting out over the course of 2022 called “12 of 2022”. You can subscribe HERE.
New Album: Not Only Because but Also Because
Hot off the presses folks… this album is number 1 in a 12 album subscription series Seth Faergolzia is putting out over the course of 2022 called “12 of 2022”. You can subscribe HERE.