“The Second Phone” is a retrospective two-volume set capturing Seth Faergolzia’s former freak folk band Dufus at its anarchic best.
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Seth Faergolzia releases retrospective album spanning 20 years
Freak-folk musician Seth Faergolzia’s new album “Not Only Because But Also Because” is both a collection of rarities and a career-spanning retrospective.
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Quarantined: COVID-19 moves musicians to think outside the box
COVID-19 presents an entirely new challenge for musicians. With canceled shows and suddenly decreased incomes, local artists are finding alternative ways to connect to their audiences.
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Sharing the muse in Multibird
Seth Faergolzia’s Multibird is a magnificent, multi-genre-defying, multi-genre-defining operation. It is odd and it is contrarian. Faergolzia, who wields the baton at the heart of this oddball parade, is a boisterous, gentle giant who does a bit of everything.
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Album review: ‘Loop Paintings’
Seth Faergolzia “Loop Paintings” Self-released faergolzia.com Seth Faergolzia is a creative chameleon. The songwriter’s expressive versatility spans multiple projects, including the freak folk chamber band 23 Psaegz, the idiosyncratic art rock quartet Multibird, and experiments with vocal looping and digital sound manipulation, which he showcased at last year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. It’s that last venture, […]
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Multibird is the word
Seth Faergolzia is a whimsical wrangler of beautiful chaos. He is essentially genre-less and hard to categorize. Even he is beguiled by his open-minded, multi-pronged attack. The leader of 23 Psaegz, a loop painter (recording vocal loops while painting at the same time), a solo artist, and a disciple of the profoundly odd, Faergolzia added […]
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A winter blues playlist
Seven Rochester songs for a different kind of holiday mood
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Frank reviews Loop Painting and Matt Griffo
Seth Faergolzia is a madman; the kind of sub-genius I like to truck with. Discipline. In their literature, the Fringe higher-ups talk of disciplines in classifying and categorizing performances. Faergolzia’s Loop Painting technically had two and yet no discipline at all. It was a full-blown free for all. Faergolzia entered Gregorian chant-inspired, vowel-heavy moans and […]
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Album Review: ‘High Diver’
Seth Faergolzia “High Diver” Blang Records faergolzia.com Seth Faergolzia wrote 100 songs last year, put nine of them together on “High Diver,” and English label Blang Records put it out. You got to wonder what the editing process was in order to whittle it down this far — I mean 90 percent didn’t make the […]
