By seth faergolzia
Multibird to tour Europe in July!
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MULTIBIRD SUMMER TOUR!!
July 1 – Grüner Baum – Ottersweier, Germany
July 2 – Bestival – Eschenbach, Germany
July 4 – Franzis – Wetzlar, Germany
July 6 – Cologne, Germany
July 7 – Wohnzimmerkonzert – Kamen, Germany
July 8 – Flierich, Germany
July 9 – Stumpf – Hanover, Germany
July 12 – Kukuun – Hamburg, Germany
July 13 – Schokoladen – Berlin, Germany
July 14 – The Hairy Dog – Derby, UK
July 15 – The Adelphi – Hull, UK
July 16 – Broadcast – Glasgow, Scotland
July 17 – Castle Hotel – Manchester, England
July 19 – Kitchen Garden Cafe – Birmingham, UK
July 20 – The Exchange – Leicester, UK
July 21 – Brixton Windmill – London, UK
July 22 – Deutschvilla – Strobl, Austria
July 23 – Hunsrück Open Air Festival, Hahnenbachtal, Germany
July 24 – Waggon – Offenbach, Germany
July 28 – Cafe Limba – VS-Villingen, Germany
July 29 – Swamp – Freiburg, Germany with
July 30 – Out In the Kraut Festival, Schangnau, Switzerland
July 31 – White Horse – Morges, Switzerland
August 4 – Hochstein at High Falls – Rochester, NY (homecoming show)
October 7 – Rockaway Beach Festival – Bognor Regis, UK
MORE DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED AS THEY COME IN. CHECK HERE FOR UPDATES!!
About Seth Faergolzia’s Multibird:
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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 2 decades. Faergolzia will continue to shake musical conventions, making moments honest and organic in their exploration of possibility.
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Multibird and the Psaegz horns crush it in the studio!!
Hi folks! To all of you awesome people who have been paid subscribers through 2015 and now a bit into 2016, we are nearly over the first hurdle! I set out to record, produce and mix 50 songs over the course of this past year. Now that the year has passed, I realize that was a huge goal while interspersing additional creation of 7 giant puppets and a three night production of the first act of my rock opera… plus a month long European tour. I guess it goes with my personality that I try to do way more than I am physically able to do. It’s all because I see so much beauty in art of all forms, I want to make it all! Not a bad year, as far as years go…
But, I wanted to tell you!!! We did it! We made the recording goal!! It’s amazing to feel done with a step… I went with my new 4 piece band Multibird including members of 23 Psaegz (Shaun Jones, Dominic Marini, Stan Martinelli) to NYC this past week and did a 5 song session with John Kilgore Sound, produced in part by my good friend and former professor from Purchase College, Jim McElwaine. On the way there we had a van breakdown in Hancock, NY, a very small country town off of route 17 in upstate NY, would have been bad but for this wonderful Merry Prankster, Carol from the Woodstock crew came along and talked our ears off for hours on end, really interesting stuff, and a delightful person! It could have been a bummer, but we made it to the church (in this case, a recording session) on time! Or at least on time enough to finish the songs… Those guys are a pleasure to work with, and they’ve known some greats in the musician world. Before that only by about 2 or 3 days we were in session at Blackdog Studios in Rochester, NY recording 8 songs with band plus horns with Robert Blackburn… also a fine engineer and knowledgable producer. It’s always a learning experience to go to different studio spaces and work with these engineers. They have a totally different understanding of music and sound, and since I’ve been doing so much with recording this year, it’s been wildly helpful for my own progressive maturation! I will be releasing the remaining 13 songs over the course of February and March. It’s been a rough stretch financially so I haven’t been able to do many hours in these studios, and the mixing will cost a pretty penny, so please be patient! But also, please spread the word!
Multibird – Rainy Morning
Here’s a lil vid of the new 4 piece that we threw together with Dan Sieradski.
Extra – Murder at the Bugjar horn parts
So much work going on right now. This year has been incredible and trying. Today has been a tough one, you know, sometimes it’s just difficult to roll out of bed and go to work one floor up from where you just slept. Sometimes that sleep just wishes to remain in your body all day because you don’t actually step out the door. I’ve got my groove now and at 6pm I can safely say I’m going to change out of my pyjamas and go outside before the sun is completely down! Enjoy this sketch of things to come….
Song #37 – Desk Away
Desk Away is a special song. It is not part of the #100songs project, but I’m giving it to you all for being such patient subscribers! I’m headed to two different studios in the coming weeks and should be done with the songs for the project by mid-February. There will be more than the 50 I promised because I’m giving you all some unreleased material from a few years back as well. I wrote this when my friend Payton Marovich first moved in with me a few years back, just after the conclusion of my 13 year project, Dufus. Payton and I have become close friends and have inspired eachother musically and recorded on each other’s projects. Pretty cool how music can make us friends. He and I met through my music when he was living in Flagstaff, Arizona. He moved here and has since been creating awesome music under the name Paxtor. I suggest checking it out! This one was recorded by 23 Psaegz in an early incarnation. This is an old pic going along with it, though I’m not sure if it has many of the same members or not… I forgot to write it down!
https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/deskaway/s-tzTC2
Desk Away – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Where the body goes, known
Where the mind goes, nobody knows
Weaving a string in and out of your toes
Wrap all around you up to your nose
Traveled around the world on a cloud
Now that I’ve seen the whole way around
Found myself on the ground
Sound through the mountains, shouting aloud,
“I’m away from my desk, far away from my desk”
When you were born your mind was pure art
They tossed you around, gave you a name
Told you no one’s the same
You’re special, you’re different
I see that clearly, pure magic
I see you with stars and sparkles all in your eyes
“I’m away from my desk, far away from my desk”
Opening my ears, a hidden message
Muddied with noise and conversation
What to do? Who to be? Who to love? What are we?
Where will take this crazy old world
Where will you take us you crazy old girl
Will this spinning ever end
And where will it land, where will it land?
Where will it land?
“I’m away from my desk, far away from my desk”
Stay away, stay away, stay away, stay away
Song #36 – Song for Grandma “Bea”
This was a bit of a difficult year for my family. Last year, while in the middle of the songwriting project, my grandmother passed away. She was a wonderful woman, and I wrote her a little song to be played at her funeral. My grandfather passed about a year later, just like they say happens. Both very crafty and hard working, generous people. They lived long, healthy lives. I was glad to know them.
https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/song-for-grandma/s-4qXLn
Extra – Call To Action (horns)
Third horn part finished. This is one of my favorite new ones. I hope you’ll all get to hear the final version. This is just a weird synthesized version of the horn parts I wrote. We will be recording the full songs with our 10 person band at the end of the month. So excited!
Extra – On A Roll (horns)
Another one from the horn parts I’m working on presently… Enjoy! We will be recording the full song at the end of this month!
Extra – Little Bitta Reggae Horn sheets and audio
Hi Gang!
This is a special one just for the $7 subscribers and up. Right now, I’m madly working to finish the final 15 songs of this project, with two recording sessions coming up in less than a month with two different bands… but also having a show opening for my old friend Kevin Kinsella of John Brown’s Body I thought I should add horns to our old fan favorite, Little Bitta Reggae. Here’s a pic of some of the parts and a synthesized audio version of it as well. Enjoy!
