Here’s an awesome poster design by Laura Lee Jones for our show March 28th at Skylark Lounge, Rochester, NY with the Fevertones and Bogs Visionary Orchestra.
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Upcoming show in Rochester
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Lyrics
Thought you guys might find it kind of interesting to see some of my lyrics… my scribbles!
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Hard at it and deep in it.
Deep into the process of recording this week’s song, “Singing Through My Nose”, and a bunch of improvised loop segments. Got the candle burning. Dark lighting. Not my typical session. Need a cool down from the frantic mind. There’ve been some roadblocks and glitches in this project… getting the website functional. It’s almost at a smooth level, like a rough takeoff. Finally, we are leveling off above the clouds somewhere. This should hopefully give me the leisure to fully focus on making good artwork, like I’m meant to.
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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.
Download Right-click and select “Save as…”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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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.
NON-MEMBERS CLICK HERE to access the song.
MEMBERS CLICK HERE to listen and download.
Photo of Heck Yup by Bob Civil.
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#100songs Promotional Video
Hi Everyone!
Check out this video promoting this site and the subscription service Seth Faergolzia is doing now… Please use the video to spread the word!
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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.
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Songs #2, #3 and #4!!
Songs 2-4 of the #100songs subscription project:
#2 WAIT FOR THE BEEP
#3 MARIMBA PROJECT
#4 WIGGLE WHILE YOU WALK
These songs are complete and available by clicking HERE!
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Song #1 of Seth’s Song-a-Week project is here!
Yep, that’s right, it has begun. I have completed my first track for the Song-a-Week project for 2015. This one is called “Stars On the Pavement.”
Download Right-click and select “Save as…”This one is part of a series. I started writing some three-song-songs in which I made a long background on which to put my lyrics and melodies, then wrote three separate songs over the background. This could be likened to making a giant collage, cutting it into pieces and using the collage as a backdrop for three separate paintings. I’m very happy with how this one turned out. It just gets better and better as it goes. This month I will release the full series in three pieces. At the end of the musical series, I will do a remix of all the best pieces of the three and present a brand new track from the three. I will also be sending subscribers the full length version along with the short ones. This first track is a gift to everyone! The rest can be accessed by subscribers only. Click here to Subscribe.
Stars On the Pavement
Where are you going to, my god? When are we going to align?
I make a forest for you, path lined with wild flowers, took a million hours and a quadrillion dollars
I sing a chorus for you in the forest that I made. I use the birds to sing, the wind and everything, oh
I see you ride across the night sky, hand in a bottle, a message to everyone that you won’t let us down, no.
It’s not the end of the world, maybe the end of our humanity, but to be is neverending temporary
Maybe just a habit to be, maybe this is nothing to me . . .
I played my part, I made a forest on your land. I nurtured it, covered seeds in soil with my own hands
and when it’s time to go, and then I’m planted in the ground, the leaves and dust will play, and I will lay without a sound
There aren’t many, not many left of us 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
I see you ride across the night sky, hand in a bottle, a message to everyone that you won’t let us down.
Stars on the pavement, I’m pacing the waves of it traveling the speed of life which is faster than light.
The speed of life is faster than light.
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Seth’s new subscription service is finally here!
Seth’s new site and 100 New Songs Subscription Service
2015 marks Seth Faergolzia’s 20th year as a recording & touring musician. A great milestone. During this year Seth will finish up his “100songs” project and release it one brand new song per week via subscription service. Fans can subscribe for as little as one dollar a month and get new material before the work goes public!
Over the last 4 months, Seth has been writing like mad to complete 100songs, almost one song per day, from simple guitar and voice, to super dense loops and soundscapes to electronically produced weird pop tracks. Now that they are done, he will record, produce, mix and release them, one brand new track every week! 100songs narrowed down to the best 50. After that, subscribers can vote to decide which of those 50 songs gets put onto an album at the end of the year. You get to help choose how the work is portrayed!
There is a “members only” blog where you’ll get a peek into the life and creative process; you’ll even get to put in your opinions on how it all pans out.
By subscribing, it will be like days of old when kingdoms would act as patrons to gifted creators but way cooler because we’re all real people! No king, no permissions to ask, just pure creation. This is like giving an artist a salary. Predictable income means focus upon the writing and production in order to really make a masterpiece (or two or three or five or ten!) We hope you will support this in any way you can.
Endless thanks as always,
Seth and Crew
