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Dufus: Eth
After almost 13 years and 10 full length
recordings, Dufus is putting out our final
album. This album’s production includes
Seth Faergolzia’s voice and compositional
wizardry, a horn section, two drummers,
violin, a choir, bass, electric and acoustic
guitars, toy piano, accordion, flute, and
circuit bent noise instruments. It is our
most grandiose and well plotted production.
The content addresses a number
of ideas including the importance
of silence, long time friends, post-
child breakups, love, schizophrenia,
and profound dream stories.
Dufus: Eth ~VINYL~
After almost 13 years and 10 full length recordings,
Dufus is putting out our final album and now our
first FULL LENGTH VINYL LP with insert containing
photos from their final 30 member performance.
This album’s production includes Seth Faergolzia’s
voice and compositional wizardry, a horn section,
two drummers, violin, a choir, bass, electric and
acoustic guitars, toy piano, accordion, flute, and
circuit bent noise instruments. It is our most
grandiose and well plotted production.
The content addresses a number of ideas
including the importance of silence, long
time friends, post-child breakups, love,
schizophrenia, and profound dream stories.
Seth Faergolzia T-Shirt
These shirts come in 3 colors…
Royal Blue… S, M, L, XL
Forest Green… S, M, L, XL
Chocolate Brown…. S, M, L, XL
…all shirts with just a slightly tinted
off white purple ink on front and back.
Channel Faergolzia
Channel Faergolzia:
The first project of Seth Faergolzia
of Dufus in collaboration with Josh
Channel. “Channel Faergolzia,” release
April 21, 2010. The two artists created a
new combination in electronic and
acoustic melding, with Faergolzia’s
interstellar songwriting and Channel’s
left of center electro-wizardry. It is a
step in a more modern direction for
Faergolzia, working in sequencing and
using samples to create far different
soundscapes than would be heard in
past albums.
In Monstrous Attitude
Here’s what ROIR had to say about this album:
In Monstrous Attitude, ”Dufus’ third album
with ROIR, is mixed by Shimmy Disc’s Kramer
and barely contained in a colossal 12 panel
Digipak with comic book art by anti-folk hero,
Jeffrey Lewis (Rough Trade). It lives up to its
name; it’s a monstrous work that cannot be
ignored. One way or another Dufus will get
under your skin, and into your brain.
From the love and anxious amazement a
parent feels for their firstborn to the
feelings of frustration and desperation
at a static society, to more whimsical topics
like passing gas and the musical properties
of felt, Dufus’ “In Monstrous Attitude” leaves
no stone unturned in its exploration of the
human experience. Although they have already
influenced many a band in the
freak-folk/anti-folk scene
(like Moldy Peaches, Man Man, USAisamonster,
Akron Family), this is perhaps Dufus’ most
inspiring work to date. It is a perfect mixture
of their signature chaotic, childlike compositions
(which critics have compared to the mastermind
experimentations of Captain Beefheart, Zappa,
Ween and Mr. Bungle) and passionate,
crescendoing melodies that leave you
gasping for breath with every twangy note.
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Musicians on In Monstrous Attitude: Seth Faergolzia: Acoustic Guitar/Lead Vocals Anders Griffen: Drums Alex Coronado: Bass Erin Riedel and Anouk Hokuxqpa: vocals
1:3:1
This is probably the most grandiose Dufus
album to date… somewhere around 50
musicians helped out with choral,
lo-fi orchestral, noise and rock production…
“…like tasting fruit off the vine after a
lifetime of grape soda.” —Ink19
Here’s what ROIR had to say…
Dufus has been compared favorably and often
to both Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
and to Frank Zappa, but also to
Mr. Bungle & Ween, for whom they recently
opened, and even to Modest Mouse
side-project Ugly Casanova. And like
these previous bands, within the
music is a severe tension in constant
jeopardy of hurtling out of control:
aggressive & nurturing, chaotic &
structured, solitary & social, and,
of course, anti & folk—dufus is all
these things. I once heard Suicide
described as “dumb-genius” and
while I felt the comment unfair it
came close to describing the
visceral content of Suicide. The same
goes here. It is genius, yet there is
something so pure about this album,
something so subconscious that one
gets the feeling it has arrived directly
from the womb of some large and
intricate beast.
dufus might even save the world.
Apart from this album, which is
one of the strangest, most wonderful
records ever made, Seth Quankmeyer Faergolzia,
the leader of dufus, is writing a religion called
the complete disassemblement of reality
(no joke), designing garments, initiating
a self-negating art movement/collective
called Pro-Anti, he is bringing clumsy,
childlike love to the masses, he is destroying
the barrier between audience and performer,
he is composing rock-operas, and he is
fun wearing underwear. dufus are many things.
Considering the renaissance/kitchen sink way
in which he lives his life, Seth, like his music,
is expectedly difficult to pin down. For the
past few years he’s been a bit of a nomad,
moving from squat to squat in a city that constantly
threatens to eat him alive. Some consider him
homeless, others consider him at home wherever
he goes. One such place is NYC’s Sidewalk Café,
where he has become an integral member of NYC’s
anti-folk scene. Seth is a close friend & collaborator
of the talented Jeffrey Lewis & the Moldy Peaches.
Dufus has toured with both. Hell, they even share
the same drummers: Strictly Beats and Anders Griffen.
And Kimya of the Peaches was a cast member of
Seth’s rock-opera, “Fun Wearing Underwear”.
On top of all this, dufus is probably the least
likely band one would expect our fair Strokes
to be fans of, but they are. dufus is many things,
and in a musical world that often fails to excite
me, Dufus excites me. Dufus excites me very much.
Seth Faergolzia explains
how the album, “1:3:1”, was recorded:
“…the idea for one:three:one was given
to me at in the woods in Ocala,
Florida, February 2002. I had been
staring at a formation in the sky
shaped like an equal sign. A meteor
streaked through it, negating it and
making a pro-anti symbol. As I walked
away, I witnessed a tree with the hand
shape, which eventually became the
focus of much thought and went
onto the album cover. Thousands
of hours have been spent intensely
cultivating this blissful lunatic…”
“Like an encyclopedia of so-called
outsider music condensed into a
Downtown pagan mystery meeting.
Dufus’s recent “1:3:1” is the most
unironically anarchic album I’ve
heard all year. As giddy and
inventive (“Dufus”) as it is pissed-off
(“More Girl Cops”), it’s the 21st –century
equivalent of the Fugs at their finest.”
—Richard Gehr, Village Voice
“fourteen members strong
and phenomenal.” —NME (uk)
“like El Greco’s version of Jesus.”
—Bernard Stollman, founder & president ESP-Disk
“Musically, seth and dufus are on
vague nodding terms with
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
& possibly au fait with the Mothers
of Invention, but in a totally
contemporary fashion. Seths vocals
are somewhat reminiscent of
Joseph Arthur in places…[they]
light the music of dufus like a
flaming torch…dufus are keeping
it interesting when the general
trend appears to be regression…
Dufus are the beating heart @ the
very bottom of the NYC underground
dont sleep on the subway.” —trakMARX
“They’re making this wonderful,
wonderful noise, pure songmaking
without the clichés…We need
romantic, real-world dreamers
like this. We need DUFUS.”
—Organ Magazine (uk)
“things to look out for include
Seth Faergolzia’s ‘celibacy pants,’
which shows fiber art going punk…”
—Roberta Smith, New York Times
“Applauded by the Strokes &
Moldy Peaches alike…if the
Strokes are the daddies of their
own retro velvet overgrounds,
Dufus is the Mother of Invention.”
—Crud Magazine/2-4-7-music.com
BOX SET: DUFUS + SETH FAERGOLZIA FULL COLLECTION
FULL DISCOGRAPHY OF WORK BY SETH FAERGOLZIA AND DUFUS
Eth, Kickstarter Funded, 2010
Eth, Vinyl 12″ LP
Channel Faergolzia, Self Released, 2010
In Monstrous Attitude, ROIR, New York, NY 2009
Tape 2 (cassette/computer sound collage), Self Released, 2008
King Astronaut, Self Released, 2008
Bristol Hills Music Camp Experimental Orchestra, Whprwhil Records, Seattle, 2007
Legend of Walnut, Self Released, 2007
Last Classed Blast, Ironman Records, Birmingham, UK, 2006
Ball of Design, ROIR (Reach Out International Records), New York, NY, 2004
Seth Faergolzia: Don’t Call Me Hippie, Self Released, 2004
Dufus/Seth Faergolzia: This Fredum, Luvalot Records, 2003
1:3:1, ROIR, New York, NY, 2002
Neuborns, Ironman Records, Birmingham, UK, 2001
Quankmeyer Faergolzia: Pip, Self Released, 2000
Funderwear (from the Rock Opera, “Fun Wearing Underwear,” Self Released, 2000
This Revolution, Opulence Records, Wilmington, NC, 1998
Eee-Lai-Font, Self Released, 1997
Our First Born, J-Bird Records, Connecticut, 1996
Cleveland Funk Tribe, Self Released 1995
PLUS POSTERS, STICKERS, AND A BONUS CD FILLED WITH UNRELEASED TRACKS!!!!
Ball of Design
Ball of Design was written largely in response to the war declared by the United States after the 911 occurrence.
Dufus: Neuborns 2001
Dufus – Neuborns is the missing Dufus album recorded in 2001 and before 1:3:1 and unreleased until now. It was recorded in 2000-2001 at Emandee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is released at last through Birmingham, UK based Iron Man Records and its lyrical content derives from as one nameless reviewer puts it “a modern day caveman junk collector’s perspective on deliniation from concensus reality.”
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label’s words about it: Frontman and singer/songwriter Seth says that “Neuborns speaks to an audience of believers who get pushed down, the people who are trying as hard as they can to make the world thrive in a way better.” Dufus in my view are one most important bands I’ve heard in years and watching the band live in 2000 started that one. There are a lot of bands who copy, mimic and steal inspiration from Dufus but the band, much to the irritation of the media, and many others, keep on keeping on and continue to do their own thing without interest in being noticed or even accepted. The bands music stands up and is unflinching to trends, fashions or whats in with the in crowd this week. You may love this band, you may not understand them, you may even think you know them. Whatever you think, be warned, the band will continue doing what they do without reference to whether you like it, want it or understand it. here are a few quotes I dug up on the net that may just illustrate my point: “Fiercely independant, fiercely committed and suitably deranged – Dufus stand alone in their field holding back the waves of corporate c**p like a platoon of modern day Canutes.” trakMARX “Dufus plays frantic fever-dream folk slashed through with rock stabs. The band has ties to the local anti-folk scene, but Dufus exploitations are bigger and more ambitious than those of, say, the Moldy Peaches. It’s hard to think of a style not at least touched upon by Dufus, but the group’s woozy delirium somehow makes it sound more cohesive than it probably should.” The Onion “Astoundingly variegated soundscapes.” Relix I’ve also found some other biographical information that you may find useful background to the band Dufus themselves…. Dufus presents a deep and transcendent mixture of confrontational songwriting, whip-smart lyricism and massive beats interspersed with avant-punknoise and groundbreaking improvisation; they are helping to define the curve for an awakening generation of artful rock musicians. Their edgy but positive sound vibration has earned them an expanding and loyal following throughout the Northeast and parts of Europe. Born in 1996 as an open collective for creative musicians, the band has forged excursions into multimedia, rock-opera, junkyard fashion and even orchestral works landing in a hard pocket of 5 solid members. Dufus has toured extensively in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and has shared the stage with The Black Dice, Moldy Peaches, Ween, The Frogs, Animal Collective, Adam Green, Jeffrey Lewis, Cornershop, Regina Spektor, Low, and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to name a few. The Onion: “For those who like Frank Zappa but wish he had been weirder, Dufus plays frantic fever-dream folk slashed through with rock stabs…Past opening stints for Ween should sound a signal, but even Dean and Gene Ween must have scratched their heads a time or two.”s amazement a parent feels for their firstborn to the feelings of frustration and desperation at a static society, to more whimsical topics like passing gas and the musical properties of felt, Dufus’ “In Monstrous Attitude” leaves no stone unturned in its exploration of the human experience. It is a perfect mixture of their signature chaotic, childlike compositions (which critics have compared to the mastermind experimentations of Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Ween and Mr. Bungle) and passionate, crescendoing melodies that leave you gasping for breath with every twangy note.
Legend of Walnut
A collection of various live and unreleased outtake recordings.
some lo-fi, some mid… quite varied…
Quankmeyer Faergolzia: Pip
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Seth Faergolzia’s 8 track basement creations from 1998 in Brooklyn… there are a number of metallic instruments found and collected then hung and orchestrated, recorded and tweaked by Seth. Includes original long version of “Silly Baboon.”
Tape 2
This is a side project of Seth Faergolzia. The recordings are primarily from cassette, where Seth did an editing process on a dual cassette machine, cutting things up and looping randomly. After that cassette to cassette editing, Seth put it into a computer and edited it more. 5 years of material squashed down into a 2 disc set.
Dufus/Seth Faergolzia: This Freedum (Vinyl)
This is a 7″ comprised of a live band version of “Fun Wearing Underwear” from London 2001 and a solo version of “Happy Birthday Seth.”
Th!s (dufus) Revolution 1998
We’ve run out of pressed copies of this 1998 release, but due to continued requests we are putting it up for sale as a CDR. This album features such songs as “Wee Ma Moo” and “Fun Wearing Underwear.”
Seth Faergolzia: Don’t Call Me Hippie
14 intimate mostly solo acoustic tracks
from the front man of legendary
NYC band Dufus!
a. my starving bones
b. tutu (BHMCEO)
c. wrinkle
d. pog
e. eeten laffen
f. a fragrance uv whispz
g. wut koirz
h. the rumble
i. ruler-o-dee masking feld
j. melo
k. jimbo (BHMCEO)
l. splatterday nite
m. cb onna radio
n. evil ey