Seth Faergolzia

  • Song #21 – Truest Blood (FREE DOWNLOAD!!!)

    So, it’s been a bit since my last posting.  I have had a lot on my plate, booking a European tour not only for my band but also for my friend Danielle Ponder.  It’s a crazy time with tons of time on the computer.  I figured since I put out 4 songs in May, I could take a week to focus on these other things in my life which are getting neglected.   Now I’m back with a vengeance!  This song, Truest Blood was a blast to produce.  I always wish I had more time to go deeper into it, but for now this is what you get, and I think it’s pretty awesome.  It’s nice to have a job which gives me such great pride and brings joy to others.  I only wish we could all have jobs of this sort… perhaps we can.  Without further ado…

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/truest-blood

    Truest Blood – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Die, and my heart will ache
    ain’t no curing that awful ache
    please don’t ever, please don’t go away
    don’t think I could handle the pain

    here is my healthy heart
    coupled with a frantic mind
    if you don’t mind the way I spend my days
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you

    clear as a crystal pond
    where you go fishing with a magic wand
    the game you catch try to create a bond
    with you they’re melding your mind

    here is my healthy heart
    coupled with a frantic mind
    if you don’t mind the way I spend my days
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you

    in here you are
    in my heart where doth flow truest blood
    cannot go further in
    this is all I know

    in here you are
    in my heart where doth flow truest blood
    cannot go further in
    this is all I know

    This, this is all I know
    I hope you see that I’m a simple man
    please don’t expect me to have complex thought
    I’m a simple man, it’s true

    Please don’t ever go away
    I don’t wanna have to live a day
    without the love you give
    don’t take it away
    I see your eyes of blue

    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you

    Clear as a crystal pond
    where you go fishing with a magic wand
    here is my healthy heart
    coupled with a frantic mind
    if you don’t mind the way I spend my days
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you
    I’ll gladly, though weirdly
    I’ll gladly spend my days with you

    in here you are
    in my heart that doth flow truest blood
    cannot go further in
    this is all I know
    this is all I know
    this is all I know.

  • Song #20 – Garbage Night

    I originally set out to record this song because I thought it would be easy!  Boy was I wrong.  It’s been a very busy time here in my world because I’ve been adding band members to the 23 Psaegz lineup (trombone, trumpet, bass and a new drummer), so we’ve been doing extra rehearsals… I’ve also begun work on puppets for the rock opera and doing all my normal things like performing a few times a month regionally and hanging with my awesome daughter.  She was a great help in this particular recording project.  She and I enjoy going out on Wednesday nights here in Rochester looking for treasure in the garbage people put out.  This song is about that.  I’m a strong supporter of reusing and repurposing stuff.  I’m not a fan of throwing things out and using things which can only be used once.  So this is my trash anthem, haha.  In preparing for the release of this song, I thought, perhaps I should use some instruments I’ve actually found in the garbage to accompany the song… you know, living by my word… anyway, my daughter helped me to sample a huge pile of metal percussion pieces I’ve collected over the years from old lamps, or pots and pans etc.  We made a huge recording of samples then I sifted through it and made a virtual keyboard for triggering the samples.  It took an extra week of work that I didn’t know would have to happen, so the song is late, but it’s done!  I think you’ll enjoy it.  I hope you’ll hear the metal pieces in there and even listen to the extra release I put on the site for the $7 subscription members of the metal percussion only version of the song.  Enjoy!!!

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/garbage-night/s-FGGJ7

    Garbage Night – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    There’s one night a week in this town where I live
    Where you can get the things you need without a dime to give

    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    when people put the things you need out on the curb for free

    It may take a month before you see it
    Maybe just a day
    But while you’re looking stay alert
    You never know what you’ll find along the way

    It may not fit or look so perfect
    A coat of paint or a couple stitches do you
    Can’t be choosy when you shop in refuse

    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    when people put the things you need out on the curb for free
    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    No need to buy it they’ve supplied it out on the street

    When I was young I had tons of fun
    Picking up electronics building my time machine
    I plugged it in and off I went
    It sent me exactly one second into the future
    I declared, “It worked, it worked!”
    But nobody believed me
    They were jerks, jerks
    I saw then that the trash was my only friend
    Again and again the treasure’s right around the bend

    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    when people put the things you need out on the curb for free
    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    No need to buy it they’ve supplied it out on the street

    If you decide to treasure hunt at night
    I won’t mind
    There’s plenty out here for our kind
    But please be advised
    Watch out for mean guys
    Not to mention bedbugs
    Cockroaches might eat your eyes

    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    when people put the things you need out on the curb for free
    Garbage night
    Garbage night
    No need to buy it they’ve supplied it out on the street
    Garbage night
    Treasure night
    We will find the things we need and probably some others
    Garbage night treasure
    When people put the thing you need out on the street.

  • Extra for Song #20 – Garbage Night (Percussion-only version)

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/garbage-night-perc-only-mp3/s-nG1LW

    GARBAGE NIGHT (PERCUSSION-ONLY VERSION) – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    This is a track built entirely from cool pieces of metal which I’ve collected over the years. I am a strong believer in reusing what we have rather than creating more, in regards to keeping our environment in tact for the future of our race. Part of what I do in my daily life is to attempt to use less by collecting what others leave behind. I suppose that makes me sort of a scavenger, but I think it’s great! I have pretty much furnished my entire house with things I’ve found. There are things which were given to me and a couple things I’ve actually bought, but I generally only buy used things. blah blah blah.

    I used all this percussion stuff from years of collection and finally made samples of them all. I will probably make the sample suite available to the public as well, following this project. My daughter helped me record all the little sounds which make up my collection. She and her best friend also did me the favor of singing backup on the chorus for the full song (which I’ll be posting in the next day or two)… I think they’re cute as cute can be. I had trouble not putting every little noise they made on this recording. Everything a little child does is pure gold!

    I was listening back to this without vocals and without other instruments, and I just had to share it with you all. I just love the groove of it, and when you hear the song it goes with, you’ll be like, “how does that fit the song?” … but somehow it does. 🙂

  • Song #19 – Hi5

    So, life happens.  We cannot predict the occurrences in our lives, and though we may have realistic plans, it’s doubtless that things will interrupt these plans once in a while.  This week’s song is not part of the #100songs project because I’ve had personal stuff to deal with, the main thing being that my 8 year old daughter has been suffering from a couple different ailments, and I’ve had to keep her home from school a few days this week.  Family first, as they say.  I’m blessed to have her in my life, and she’s a great kid.  She was very understanding and even helped me a bit this week, but I still haven’t gotten anywhere near done with the song which I had set out to complete this week, “Garbage Night.”  A lot of people at recent concerts have loved that song, so I really wanted to get it done so those people could listen to it.  Alas!  It will have to wait till next week.  In searching for something to replace it, so I could at least make good on my song a week release promise, I discovered a handful of old 23 Psaegz songs which have not had their rightful release yet… They’re so old that we seldom play any of them, so I’m putting this one out.  It’s called “Hi5”.  It came from a misunderstanding between I and a friend that led to some negativity and turbulence (which is an unusual thing in my life.  I try to get along with people and remain kind through all circumstances, which most times works fine.)  I’m happy to say that this friend and I are getting along fine now!  This song has a special place in my heart.  I hope you will enjoy it!  It was mixed by Matt Broadstone and performed by 23 Psaegz including Payton Marovich, Laura Lee Jones, Brett Gobe, Carla Bartow, Joyce Britton, Shaun Jones, Regina Huynh, Neeti Fidurko, and Shannon Scally in 2011.

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/hi5/s-xY4He

    High Five – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Opened the vent
    An event for composing

    Oh no, the anger, I’m sorry
    It’s hard to see you as a real person
    Oh no, not anger, I’m sorry
    It’s hard to see you as a real person

    This broken high five
    You’re in there
    I know you’re alive
    Each broken high five
    You’re in there
    I know you’re alive

    Get some wood glue
    To clump the crack up
    Glue together this broken five
    We’ll slap our hands together
    When it’s all over
    Yeah it’s alright
    Yeah it’s alright

    You’re alive
    You’ve just fallen down
    Take some time
    It will work it out
    All in time
    It will work it out

    This broken high five
    You’re in there
    I know you’re alive
    We’ll slap our hands together
    When it’s all over
    Yeah it’s alright
    Yeah it’s alright

    1-2-3-4-5…

    (Improvised song part “Cloun Drip”)

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    A silly, blurry pic of the band that performed this song.

  • Song #18 – A Monster On the Radio

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    Running a bit behind this week, friend, but I have still gotten the song completed and feeling good about it!  18 songs so far!  Oh my!  I had no idea how difficult this project would be, but I’m finding my way through, and learning a ton about myself as an artist and about how to craft a good recording.  I think the knowledge I gain through this year of labor will make me the artist I’ve yearned to be for years!  Struggling to keep up because I’ve started two new projects this week in addition to the song project.  I’ve added a horn section to the 23 Psaegz band and have begun rehearsing them, and I’ve started work on the puppets for my rock opera, which we are planning on premiering at the end of this summer at the Purple Pig Music Festival.  Here’s a pic of 2 puppet designs:

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    I highly suggest booking a ticket and making the journey.  We will be performing all three nights of the festival with our 8 foot puppets!!  It’ll be spectacular!!!  That’s why I’m running late this week…. better late than never though!  and with such a good song.  I really have grown to love this one as I’ve gotten to know it better these past few days.  I hope you will love it too!!

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/a-monster-on-the-radio

    A Monster On the Radio – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    An elephant and a clown
    Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

    And as they set off on it
    They knew each carried each

    A pickle on the radio
    And a buck for a dozen
    Gonna make it yo
    Give a shout out to my cousin
    On the radio
    On the radio
    On the radio

    Yo Cuz!  Here I come
    Jump in the sun
    I be making a run
    We’ll be having some fun
    Here in the sun
    I feel at one
    With my future and past
    What I am and what I’ve not done yet

    A pickle on the radio
    And a buck for a dozen
    Gonna make it yo
    Give a shout out to my cousin
    On the radio
    A monster on the radio

    Everyone is helpless
    All falling and subject to it
    Draw a perfect circle
    Somehow you would say it too
    Everything is perfect
    Everyone is helpful
    Anything is possible
    Any ice is popsicle

    An elephant and a clown
    Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

    Everything is perfect
    Anything is possible
    At least the fact
    That nothing isn’t probable

    A monster on the radio
    I made it, yo
    I put my mind to it
    And I’m in the throes of an awesome blow
    Goes nice and slow
    The rhythm, we somehow already know
    No practice, nothing to know
    Just go and go
    A determined man, I’m a determined man
    A determined man, I’m a determined man
    I have a plan
    Spreading kindness ‘cross the land
    I’m like the bearded oaf
    In the wizard movie you can’t help but vote for
    Because his soft-hearted nature
    Is somehow naive yet endearing for sure
    I really believe
    I really believe in it, really believe in it.

    An elephant and a clown
    Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

    A monster on the radio
    I made it, yo
    I put my mind to it
    And I’m in the throes of an awesome blow
    Goes nice and slow
    The rhythm, we somehow already know
    No practice, nothing to know
    Just go and go
    A determined man, I’m a determined man
    A determined man, I’m a determined man
    I have a plan
    Spreading kindness ‘cross the land
    I’m like the bearded oaf
    In the wizard movie you can’t help but vote for
    Because his soft-hearted nature
    Is somehow naive yet endearing for sure
    I really believe
    I really believe in it, really believe in it.

    Everyone is helpless
    All falling and subject to it
    Draw a perfect circle
    Somehow you would say it too
    Everything is perfect
    Everyone is helpful
    Anything is possible
    Any ice is popsicle

    An elephant and a clown
    Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

    Everything is perfect
    Anything is possible
    At least the fact
    That nothing isn’t probable

    An elephant and a clown
    Silly Billy monkeying not wearing a frown

     

  • Song #17 – Hot Sh!t 4eva

    Splendiferously bubbling heart goobers!  It’s a great delight to finish this one.  This started at a 23 Psaegz rehearsal sometime late last year.  We were once a very large band, but in recent months we’ve been going through changes, sometimes smaller rehearsals have led to strange collaborations like this one.  There were four of us, I think, Laura Lee Jones, Joseph Schmidlin, Brett Gobe, Reilly Cook and myself (though my memory imagines one more person there).  We made this funny waltz in 7.  If that weren’t strange enough, my friend Dan Sieradski of the Self Agency (without whom, this website would not exist) and I were having a conversation regarding the nature of hip hop.  He said to me hip hop must be in 4/4 time.  I challenged him and said that hip hop simply hasn’t had much stuff in odd time signatures, but it doesn’t HAVE to be in 4/4.  He disagreed vehemently.  I had to meet the challenge, and how better than with a waltz in 7??  This one is kind of a 7/4 waltz, well actually it’s in 7/8 at 78bpm, haha.  I think I’ve risen to the challenge.  Hopefully you all will agree.  I think it’s worked out amazingly.  Supreme inspiration comes from visiting unknown worlds.  I hope you’ll enjoy it!   There’s reference to a tape I made about 30 years ago with a friend, my first recorded compositions under the title, “Masters of the Universe.”  I probably have the only surviving copy of that stuff (thankfully).  I hope this one will put a smile on your face.  My thoughts and prayers go out to the folks struggling in Baltimore and Nepal this week.

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/hot-sht-4eva/s-KAUft

    Hot Sh!t 4eva – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Hot Shit, foreva

    Hot shit, oh!  Alright

    Hot Shit Foreva!

    Woowoowoo

    Hot Shit, yeah!  Foreva!

    Yeah yeah yeah

     

    This is not hip-hop

    Who let that beat drop?

    Who dropped the beat?

    That wasn’t me.

    I been making music since I was 3

    Writing rhymes since I’s a teen

    Day of LL, Fatboys, Run DMC

    Later Public Enemy

    Recorded my first demo, “Masters of the Universe” in a karaoke mall booth

    Hadn’t even got me last adult tooth yet

    But that’s youth, Brett

    They grab ahold and do without a clue.

     

    Hot Shit, foreva

    Hot shit, oh!  Alright

    Hot Shit Foreva!

    Woowoowoo

    Hot Shit, yeah!  Foreva!

    Yeah yeah yeah

     

    Yeah Yeah

    When I get an A for thinking

    It’s not like I did anything

    I was like, “Kafoolduboppylee duffle, Kafoolduboppylee duffle!”

    I said, “Kafoolduboppylee duffle”

    They said, “Hot Shit, Yeah”

    I was like, “not hot yet”

    I was just getting started

    Building this mechanized heart of gold

    Just wait till I’m old

    That shit will unfold

    Splendiferously bubbling with butterfly shoulders

    and trousers of cloud unfurling

    Like they plowed the sky with giant horse drawn jacuzzis on maximum spin

    You win, my twin, let it begin, ain’t no sin, just dive in, let it begin

    You win, my friend, let it begin, ain’t no sin, just dive in, let it begin, my friend

     

    Hot Shit, foreva

    Hot shit, oh!  Alright

    Hot Shit Foreva!

    Woowoowoo

    Hot Shit, yeah!  Foreva!

    Yeah yeah yeah

     

    I’m seeing double

    Troubled inside

    Thoughts collide

    a husband and bride

    Full of narcissistic pride

    how far is this ride?

    I wanta get off

    I hack and cough

    I’m actin’ rough

    I puff my chest and raise my shoulders up

    I ain’t no pup, I am a dog

    I poop a log

    The Bane of Paul Bunyan

    The rain that made you run in

    The pain that put your thumb in

    Your mouth is always running

    But not a word of it is cunning

    It’s like drool from a fool

    Forming a pool atop the Bunyan Stool

    I sometimes think it sounds like a muppet singing,

    “Kafoolduboppylee duffle, Kafoolduboppylee duffle!”

     

    Hot Shit, foreva

    Hot shit, oh!  Alright

    Hot Shit Foreva!

    Woowoowoo

    Hot Shit, yeah!  Foreva!

    Yeah yeah yeah

     

  • City Newspaper

    A couple months back City Newspaper in Rochester (where I live) did this cover story of me.  It was the first time I was ever put on the cover of a paper!   What an honor!!!

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    You can read it here:

    http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/the-pied-piper-of-psaegz/Content?oid=2463425

  • Song #16 – I Want It Easy

    I’m in the middle of organizing over 40 people for 3 different projects.  I’m starting a choir, a wind/horn section for my band 23 Psaegz, and a crew of people to make and operate puppets for my rock opera performance this summer.  A ton of work… so, I’m cheating a little this week and giving you guys a previously unreleased song, but it’s not part of the #100songs I wrote in the end of last year.  I hope you will forgive me!  I’m overwhelmed, but I still want to make good on my promise of a new song each week.  This is one I recorded as part of my solo album, Doubting Won’t Do.  I had to cut one song to make that album the right length… Here it is, complete with a piece of art by Adam Green, my good friend who generously donated some of his artwork to the album cover.

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/i-want-it-easy/s-gKZJD

  • Busy Bees!

    Spring is here and I’m hard at work getting songs recorded and mixed for my #100songs project. If you’ve not subscribed, it might be in your best interest to do so now! You can get a ton of songs and support an artist working diligently to create beauty. If you scroll through the news feed here you’ll find a number of songs for free download and streaming. Grab ’em up!! Thanks for coming to the site, and extra thanks to you if you’ve already subscribed. This is becoming one of the most inspired and creative times of my life thanks to you and your support. photo 1

  • Song #15 – High Diver

    Collaboration! So in the process of writing #100songs I took all sorts of routes to a finished work each day. This one was a collaboration of sorts. Laura Lee Jones offered me a packet of poems she had written as fodder for my process, and I accepted. I’ve always had trouble reading poetry even though I write quite a bit. I’m more of a fantasy / sci fi novel sorta guy… This process has helped me to dig pretty deeply into a poem that wasn’t my own. Laura is a great artist, whatever she sets her mind to. These lyrics inspired what I believe to be an awesome song… and it’s interesting that I did more vocal affectation with this one, I think because I didn’t have to focus on the personal meaning I was putting into it. I kept it simple with the production because the voices seemed enough. I hope you’ll enjoy this one as much as I do!

    https://soundcloud.com/23psaegz/high-diver/s-kVnx5

    HIGH DIVER – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
    LYRICS BY LAURA LEE JONES

    first perched and stretched:

    long arcs of the limbs extended

    the the sudden jump

    body folds into itself

    into the shape

    of an arrow head

    into a fetal pose

    toes pointed

    spiraling plunging replacing air water

    body eliminated

    from its first version

    somehow lost in a moment of weightless

    space — released

    becomes a polished stone

    armed with the substance

    of speed or the moving waves

    somehow the proclivity of a dive

    the long plummet somehow a bird and fish at once