Seth Faergolzia

  • Song #9 – Rubbin’ It In

    The Month of the Loop has begun!  Today is my BIRTHDAY!!!  I don’t know if you all have noticed yet, but my first month of this project was all computer recordings, the 2nd month was all band and acoustic sort of stuff, and this month will be all loops!  I’m excited because this stuff is so much easier to mix than the full band 24 instrument productions. Everything on here is my voice. First I recorded a loop with my voice, live in studio, then I layered my main vocals over that.

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    Rubbing It In – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

     

    When I put a joke in, into the mental ether

    I yolk the folk up and they giggle with their dental teeth

    Rental cars for miles and miles

    Emptying the pockets of the souls defiled

    I’m ripping up the money

    I’m ripping up the money

    I’m ripping up the money even though my joke was funny

    It made your eyes all runny and it tightened up your tummy

    But I just can’t keep running like this

    This isn’t bliss;  it’s like I missed the point when I rolled into the joint

    To cover up the pain I could never seem to tame

    But this is the time when my mind isn’t blind

    And I’m finding out the kind of man I can be when I shine

    I’m fine, and I’m an artist of the utmost

    I roast all my past selves in an oven made of love

    They cook to perfection, warm and tender, no need to defend ’em

    I gobble ’em up and wash ’em down with a goblet of my blood

    This is self love of the highest order

    This ain’t no ordinary sorb, sorb

    Absorb all my past selves

    Absorb all my past selves

    Rubbin’ it in

     

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

     

    Listen to this:

    you might have missed out so open up your ears and take the words out of your mouth

    Aw yeah, rubbin’ it in

    When I was a little kid of 7 found a gun in an abandoned building, just out to have some fun

    Were things any different them or have they stayed the same

    Gobble up my past selves, then I change the name and I said

    Aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in, aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in.

     

    If I take a picture of the who I was then

    And then again take picture of the me at age 10

    Aw yeah, I gobbled it up

    Look a couple years into the future and then

    Compare to the picture of the me that was 10, and you can tell

    Aw yeah, I gobbled it up

     

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

     

    Think about it:

    Think about this:

    Won’t say it loud, that’d be annoying

    Somehow made this song that I sing and that’s a thing

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    Every memory, every thought you think

    Can get lost or put into the mental sink and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    I’m gazing down from up above

    Etherally looking at my brain with love and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin it in

    I reach inside with memory

    Valuable, each and every piece and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in.
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  • Song #8 – Rainy Morning

    Oh, my glory, this song is one of my life’s favorites. As soon as I wrote it, I knew we would be together for a long time… I wrote Rainy Morning as one of the very first songs of the #100songs project. It was on a beautiful early Autumn day after dropping my daughter off at school and walking home in a light misting rain. It was just a perfect and lovely morning. I walked in and picked up the pen and paper, wrote the words and went up to bed for a nap. After the nap I wrote the music to the lyrics. I didn’t think it was going to be good, and actually it didn’t even seem like a very good song as I was writing it, but when I reviewed it a day or two later I couldn’t stop playing it. It has been that way since.

    I feel extremely lucky to have great musicians who surround me in my life. On this track I was blessed with the drumming of Dominic Marini (who I actually met at a show I was playing because he loved the song), the banjo playing of Shaun Jones (a member of Heck Yup and 23 Psaegz), and Michaele Lynne Jacot (a friend of 23 Psaegz tuba player Brett Gobe, and now a friend of mine as well!). The rest of the instruments and voices are mine, ha! Thank you all for subscribing. You’re helping me make dreams come true!

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    RAINY MORNING – © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
    C         F   C       Dmin    G   F
    Rainy morning, slow me down
    C                 F   C        Dmin    G   F
    Make me thoughtful, make me peaceful
    C             F   C   Dmin       G   F
    Calm my spirit, make me thankful
    C                 G  C
    I’m dry and home
    C                 G  C
    I’m dry and home
    C                 F
    I’m dry and home

    G      C
    Rainy days make the plants grow
    G    C
    Make the soil fresh
    C               F   C
    Bring life forward
    G     C
    Give me an excuse to nap

    C                    F   C      Dmin    G   F
    Gray cloudy morning, slow me down
    C               F   C   Dmin    G   F
    Make me sleepy, let me rest
    C            F   C   Dmin    G   F
    Give me calm, grow my spirit
    C                 G  C
    I’m dry and home
    C                  G  C
    I’m dry and home
    C                 F
    I’m dry and home

    G      C
    Rainy days make the plants grow
    G    C
    Make the soil fresh
    C               F   C
    Bring life forward
    C              F   C
    Bring life forward
    C                 F   C
    Bring life forward!!!

    C    Emin       Amin      F
    C    Emin       Amin      F
    Though sometimes it’s tough to feel down
    Let the weather go and push me around
    The sound of the gentle, lulling pitter patter
    As the sum of all the single splatters
    Lets my mind rest and disintegrate
    For the rest of my morning
    C               F             Amin                 F
    All I do is, all I do is dream, dream, dream

    C    Emin       Amin      F
    C    Emin       Amin      F
    Rainy morning, slow me down
    Make me thoughtful, make me peaceful
    Grow my spirit, make me thankful
    I’m dry and home

    C    Emin       Amin      F
    Rainy days make the plants grow
    Make the soil fresh
    Bring life upward
    Give me an excuse to nap and dream

    C    Emin       Amin      F
    Gray cloudy morning, slow me down
    Make me sleepy
    C    Emin       Amin      F
    The sound of your gentle, lulling pitter patter
    As the sum of all the single splatters
    Lets my mind rest and disintegrate
    For the rest of my morning
    C               F             Amin                F
    All I do is, all I do is dream, dream, dream

    C                          Emin                   Amin                 F
    All I wanna do is, all I wanna do is dream, dream, dream!

    C    Emin       Amin      F
    Rainy morning, slow me down
    Make me thoughtful, make me peaceful
    Calm my spirit, make me thankful
    I’m dry and home

     

  • Songs #6, 7, & 8 – House Show, Berlin & Rainy Morning

    Song #6 – House Show

    Great pleasure! This song took a ton of hours to complete. It’s the first of the 23 Psaegz songs that I’ve done as part of this song of the week project. It was written during the #100songs series, so it counts. I wrote “House Show” the morning after a sweet show in September with Diane Cluck and some other awesome artists including Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza and Cammy Enaharo.

    Song #7 – Berlin

    This song was written about my experiences in Berlin over the past 10 years. Many references to friends and places I’ve been. Compositionally, one of my most challenging projects.

    Song #8 – Rainy Morning

    This is one of the best songs I have ever written; likewise, it’s one of my favorite recordings to date including French Horn, Banjo and an array of beautiful sounds.

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    Photo of Heck Yup by Bob Civil.

  • Song #7 – Berlin

    Good day to you all! This is an exciting week for me. This song, Berlin, is one of my best compositions and has a very interesting story. The story is available to all subscribers “downloader” and beyond via mp3 download or streaming. To upgrade your subscription level go HERE.

    During the 4 months of almost daily writing I did last year to come up with the #100songs, I went through multiple songwriting techniques. This one was by far the most comprehensive and involved process. I got up early in the morning and started walking with a pad of paper in my hands. I was setting out to write a song about Berlin. I wrote down every memory I could think of in that town I love so dearly. Some of these memories involved friends, others involved touring events. One memory, in particular, stuck out to me; it was the show we played at the House of World Cultures aka Haus der Kulturen der Welt. At that show, we made a new friend who invited us to play another show at the end of our tour at a church in Berlin called “theaterkapelle” Toward the end of the show, police came and shut us down, but we did an amazing thing and got the audience to go up on the stage and perform the Dufus song “Fire”. So I took all these ideas from the page and started writing poetry from the concepts as I wandered. After I had a good solid set of words to write my song, I took my phone and recorded myself singing these words. From that song, I went home, pulled out my guitar and put some chords behind the words. It was a very drawn out writing process, but I think you’ll be able to feel it from the composition, it is not your run of the mill “song”. It flows and bounces and twists and turns unpredictably, but it still feels cohesive! It’s one of my favorites.

    In the song I also mention Down By the River because of the amazing time I had playing there. Every time I’ve performed in Berlin I have gotten to see awesome places, squats, great graffiti, and I’ve met some of the most beautiful people of my life there. My favorite squat venue is Schokoladen.

    BERLIN

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    Photo from Theaterkappelle, Berlin
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    BERLIN – © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Backwards we walk like the ticking of a clock
    Dmin
    Into the past
    Bb          Dmin
    To a city in my dreams
    C
    To Berlin
    Dmin             C
    A hundred memories of Berlin

    F
    Not sure how I got there
    Amin
    With a guitar in my hand
    Dmin      C               Amin                   Dmin
    Suddenly greeted by new and friendly hands

    F           Dmin               C
    Smiling faces, helpful hands
    Gmin
    Made me feel at home
    Dmin         F
    In the memory of Berlin
    Bb               F
    In my memory of Berlin

    F                             Dmin
    They flew me to the river
    Amin                Dmin
    With my band with my band
    Amin                Dmin
    To the Spree to the Spree
    Amin                Dmin
    Them and me them and me

    F                                          Dmin
    Had us at the House of World Cultures
    Amin                Dmin
    Our merry band, gave us food
    Amin                Dmin
    Fed us well, gave us food

    Dmin                        Amin                      Dmin
    And at the house where culture showed its face to us that night
    Amin        Dmin        Amin                Dmin
    A delight, a new friend and a show at the end

    Amin         Dmin             Amin                Dmin
    In a church had a show, they were smoking in the church
    Amin                Dmin
    they were smoking in the church
    Amin                Dmin
    We were burning when the cops came
    C-B-A-G-A
    Burning when they came

    Dmin            F
    They tried to shut, shut us down
    Dmin                    F
    Said we couldn’t make a sound
    Amin                            Dmin
    Or they’d steal ours, steal hours away

    Dmin Bb7     Dmin Bb7
    All we were, sharing joy
    F-E-D-C-D F-E-Dmin
    So we put it in the hands of our friendly hosts
    Amin Dmin C Dmin
    Let them sing let them boom
    F-E-D-C-                    Dmin F
    As we backed out of the room
    Amin                  Dmin
    To applause filled with smoke
    Amin                Dmin
    As the rafters start to choke
    Amin              D-E-F-E-Dmin
    It’s no joke, we were loco then!

    Amin                Dmin
    Sharing sound, sharing laughter
    Amin                Dmin
    Sharing drink, sharing night time

    Bb7 F-E-D-C
    Down By the River, where everyone lives on the top floor
    F-E-D-C-E-D
    Little tiny thrift stores
    F-E-D-C-A F-E-C-A
    Squats and graffiti making beauty

    Dmin            Gmin
    Green faces, green spaces
    Dmin    C        Dmin
    Berlin, Berlin, Berlin!

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    Dufus on tour in 2007 (the tour mentioned in the song)

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    Photo from Down By the River Festival

  • Song #7 – spoken story of Berlin

    This is a special “extra” for all the “downloaders”, “hangerouters” and various “boomer” subscription levels. Thank you!
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    BERLIN STORY
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  • Song #6 – House Show

    Great pleasure!  This song took a ton of hours to complete.  It’s the first of the 23 Psaegz songs that I’ve done as part of this song of the week project.  It was written during the #100songs series, so it counts.  I wrote “House Show” the morning after a sweet show in September with Diane Cluck and some other awesome artists including Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza and Cammy Enaharo.  I’ve been running shows here at Whenland and also at Meddlesome Lab in Rochester for almost 7 years now.  It’s almost always an inspirational and joyous time, so I decided to dedicate a song to the concept so that perhaps other people might experience its joys.  Special thanks to all my bandmates from 23 Psaegz for their work on this one.

     

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    HOUSE SHOW – SETH FAERGOLZIA © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    G

    Still Buzzing from the show last night
    C
    seemed like everyone was there
    G
    music was awesome, all the artists rocked
    C
    then all the people disappeared in thin airG
    house show, house show
    C
    this is the place where I live
    G
    house show, house show
    C
    there isn’t a cover and the people are loving
    C
    they all put a few bucks into the hat and that is that
    C
    the touring band gets a hand to the next show
    C
    and everyone walks home with a warm warm glow
    G
    been doing this for many years
    C
    inviting bands into my home
    G
    made new friends, seen old ones
    C
    all of these people who roamG
    house show, house show
    C
    this is the place that i live
    G
    house show, house show
    C
    people from new york, italy and chicago
    C
    california, wisconsin, florida, new orleans
    C
    berlin, philadelphia, virginia, england and japan
    C
    baltimore, arizona, boston and paris
    C
    playing in my living room
    C
    sitting on my couch
    C
    eating at my table
    C
    in a living fableG                     C
    G                     Bmin
    this is so cool, house showG
    what do you mean there’s no rules in this place?
    C
    what do you mean that i don’t have to pay?
    G
    what do you mean this is off of the grid?
    C
    what do you mean this sick band flipped my lid?
    G
    what do you mean that it’s perfectly free?
    C
    what do you mean that these people like me?
    G
    what do you mean that musicians can roam?
    C
    what do you mean that I’m finally home?

    G
    I’m at a house show, house show
    C
    In my little home town
    G
    House show, house show
    C
    I think I’m gonna put on one of my own
    G
    house show house show
    C
    I cannot believe this exists
    G
    house show house show
    C (STOP!)
    that’s it, I’m putting my name on the list

  • Song #5 – Work to Believe – February *FREE TRACK*

    Soon after I wrote this song, I knew it would quickly become one of my long time favorites.  Something happens when I write a song that really resonates with me… It bounces and bounces around in my head for days, whenever I pick up my guitar to sing it’s that song which comes to my fingers and throat.  “Work to Believe” is a vote of encouragement to both myself and to the struggling people in this world, the ones who have hope and really try to do well by others but also for those of us who wish to achieve great things in this world.  It is quite different in this recorded version from it’s original acoustic incarnation.  On a technical side, it was a very challenging production for me because I’ve never recorded or mixed live drums before.  (I read something this morning that said something like “jump off a cliff and build your wings on the way down”.  Seemed suiting.)  Devon Tramell played the kit on this one.  In addition to Devon drumming, Rick Snell played mandolin, Shaun Jones played electric guitar and Laura Lee Jones did some vocals.  Thanks all!  Feel free to give it a listen and comment on what you think!

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    WORK TO BELIEVE – SETH FAERGOLZIA  © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Taking myself back again

    So hard.  It takes work to maintain who I am

    In this world where humans consume everything

    I overeat, I take the drugs, I live the same as anyone

    I watch TV, I fantasize, I let my eyes glaze over and over

    over and over

     

    It takes work to believe in yourself, I believe in me

    It takes work to believe in yourself, I believe in you

    It takes work to hold onto the spirit inside

    It takes work, just hold on and you will arrive

     

    Turning back into myself

    Turning back into myself again

    Turning back into myself again despite what the world would want me to do

    I’m dreaming out loud from my heart

    I’m dreaming out loud what my heart would want

    I’m dreaming and making what my heart would want me to do.

     

    It takes work to believe in yourself, I believe in me

    It takes work to believe in yourself, I believe in you

    It takes work to hold onto the spirit inside

    It takes work, just hold on and you will arrive

     

    I’m working to save my own life

    I’m working to save my own life

    I’m working to brighten the lives all around me

    I’m working to waste not

    Don’t want not don’t waste it, it’s life.

  • Song #4 – Wiggle While You Walk

    My oh my!  This has been an awesome first month!  I’m beaming from the amount of support I’ve gotten from you subscribers and the incredible work I’ve been able to do in my studio because of this support.  This week’s song, Wiggle While You Walk, is by far my favorite of the month.  It is the third installment from the 3 song series.  I’m thinking of taking the three songs and doing a bit of a mash up with them at some point in the future too!  Give it a listen, and don’t forget to download it too!!  Thanks everyone!

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    WIGGLE WHILE YOU WALK – SETH FAERGOLZIA © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    People are doing things

    People who are people, people are doing things

     

    Wiggle while you walk

    Even when you talk make a little wiggle

    Wiggle when you walk, you wiggle when you walk

    You make a little wiggle, you make a wiggle when you walk

     

    Tickled in the middle, tickled in the middle

    I run the gamut of love

     

    Wiggle while you walk

    Even when you talk make a little wiggle

    Wiggle when you walk, you wiggle when you walk

    You make a little wiggle, you make a wiggle when you walk

     

    People who are people, people are doing things

     

    Make your voice ring wailing through the mountains

    Giggle in the middle, a little silly

    A silly Billy or silly Jilly

    Let it thrill you, when you shrill dig the feeling of your shouting

     

    People who are people, people are doing things, people are doing

    People who are people

     

    Wiggle while you walk

    Even when you talk make a little wiggle

    Wiggle when you walk, you wiggle when you walk

    You make a little wiggle, you make a wiggle when you walk

     

    People who are people, people are doing things

     

    Wiggle while you walk

    Even when you talk make a little wiggle

    Wiggle when you walk, you wiggle when you walk

    You make a little wiggle, you make a wiggle when you walk

  • Song #3 – Marimba Project

    So, I had a crazy week, flew down to NYC for a few days visiting friends, playing a show with Jeffrey Lewis and the Jrams and friends Toby Goodshank and Deenah Vollmer and their band LA Boobs.  So I didn’t get to produce and mix part 3 of the 3 songs series I’m putting out this month.  Luckily, I’ve got some stuff already completed from the months #100songs last year.  This one is an unnamed project written for a potential TV commercial, haha.  They asked for a marimba song.  Not sure if I got the commercial or not, but at least I had fun writing this and wrote something quite unlike anything I’ve done in the past.

    Marimba Project – SETH FAERGOLZIA © ⓟ 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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